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17th Feb 2018

Viewers were absolutely furious at the VAR graphic resulting in Mata being offside

Rory Cashin

There was A LOT of anger from fans tonight.

Manchester United and Huddersfield went head-to-head on Saturday in their FA Cup tie, with a lot of changes made to the Man Utd side following their loss to Newcastle the weekend previous.

Mata was one of the starting eleven, and he managed to score and everyone celebrated and it would’ve put them 2-0 ahead.

However, after turning to the Video Assistant Referee (or VAR), after what felt like an eternity, it was declared that Mata was actually offside, and the goal was disallowed.

When they cut to footage of the VAR to show how Mata was offside… well, we’ll let the viewers let you know how they felt about that…