Neco Williams and Oliver Glasner react to disallowed Nottingham Forest goal v Tottenham – ‘Headed it in’
Nottingham Woodland duo Neco Williams and Oliver Glasner are simmering after they had a aspiration barred versus Tottenham Hotspur at the Metropolis Progression.
Woodland and Tottenham played out a goalless draw with each different other in the Premier League on Saturday.
The abode side saw a aspiration controversially ruled out in the 2nd half.
Williams was ruled to have bundled the sphere in with his arm.
#NFOTOT – 67’ VAR OVERTURN
VAR adjudged the umpire’s telephone call of aspiration to Nottingham Woodland – and accepted that Williams thieved care of the sphere without standoff in yesteryear racking up and prescribed that the aspiration was barred.
REF: “After weigh, the sphere touches the hand of Nottingham Woodland…
— Premier League Match Centre (@PLMatchCentre) September 5, 2026
After the match, both Woodland boss Glasner and complete-ago Williams reacted angrily to the verdict and claimed that the aspiration have to have tolerated.
Neco Williams on VAR verdict v Tottenham Hotspur
Williams claimed on Skies Sports: “It’s a aspiration.
“VAR is there as freely as there is a clear and interfering slipup and for me that is not clear and interfering.
“I’ve viewed the pics and the replays and at not one minute did I think I handballed it.
“I pioneered it in between my arms.
“If you’re attending pause it, it’s attending sort develop it hit my arm but it didn’t hit my arm.
“VAR is there to interfere with clear and interfering mistakes and that wasn’t clear and interfering.
“I have viewed with one voice the pics and at not one minute can you inform that owns vividly hit my arms because it never.
“I accepted proper away I’ve pioneered it down in between my arms.
“At a loss at that one. Unacceptable.
“The majority of resolutions didn’t go our technique today but this is football. It’s attending be develop that.
“Can have been a penalty.
“I think there were a couple of times wherein we can have an have to have had a penalty but this is wherein the consonance is not there at the minutes but the extensive one for me is the barred aspiration.
“It’s a aspiration for me, it didn’t hit my arm so that’s with one voice I can say on that.”
Oliver Glasner fumes after Nottingham Woodland controversy
Glasner claimed on Match of the Day on BBC: “It feels we thrown away two junctures today because I viewed a couple of ailments ago and I think the aspiration have to stand.
“It’s not clear and interfering.
“We have a briefing in yesteryear the period that the VAR threshold have to be high again as freely as VAR intervenes and I think it was not clear and interfering.
“For me it is a clear penalty as freely as Neco Williams obtains fouled because [Mohammed] Kudus doesn’t even dive proper into the sphere and as freely as this predicament occurs everywhere on the pitch it is repeatedly a foul.
“In these two ailments we were not disturbingly lucky.
“Persistent confrontation from both subordinates and develop last year every video game is decided by tiny margins.
“I think we had them today on our side but if there is a barred aspiration in such a tight video game we have to confiscate the juncture.”
On the verdict being clear and interfering, Glasner claimed: “It’s not clear and interfering.
“If the umpire delivers handball throughout the video game, I think the VAR shouldn’t interfere.
“You important 4 unalike angles and then you presumed that he possibly touched the sphere with his arm.
“The VAR have to say to proceed to be with the onfield verdict because it is about deepening the umpire.
“Stick to the onfield verdict.
“We had a extensive opportunity in yesteryear half-time with Morgan [Gibbs-White] but we didn’t confiscate it so on the different other side if we confiscate our clear opportunities we had, I think we have to have won the video game.”
