{"id":474400,"date":"2023-12-29T11:05:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474400"},"modified":"2023-12-29T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T15:05:17","slug":"arteta-we-cant-blame-technology-for-west-ham-defeat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arteta-we-cant-blame-technology-for-west-ham-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta: \u2018We can&#8217;t blame technology for West Ham defeat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta shared that he doesn\u2019t blame VAR for his side\u2019s 2-0 loss at Emirates against West Ham and that the only thing to blame is the Gunners\u2019 lack of goals as that was the reason for the defeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says West Ham deserved their win at the Emirates on Thursday.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WHUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WHUFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ftQijBZ2Zi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ftQijBZ2Zi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/1740651067879137580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tom\u00e1s Soucek netted the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the match in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> minute, but VAR checked the goal to see if the ball may have gone out as Jarrod Bowen pulled it back, but the decision on the pitch remained as the video assistant referee couldn\u2019t find proof that the ball left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t watched it, [but] they&#8217;re saying it&#8217;s not conclusive,&#8221; shared the Spaniard. &#8220;It&#8217;s unprofessional that with our technology, it&#8217;s not that clear so that we can decide whether it&#8217;s out or in. It&#8217;s done. It&#8217;s gone. That\u2019s not something that Arsenal can control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the VAR we have in our possession is not good enough to give us that answer, we have to score goals to triumph. With our club&#8217;s chances against the Hammers, that should have been 3 points for us, not a defeat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;it is a shame that with the technology we have that it&#8217;s not that clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta on the VAR not being conclusive for West Ham&#8217;s first goal \ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uqYMVBqzDF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uqYMVBqzDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1740681485475078337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta shared that he doesn\u2019t blame VAR for his side\u2019s 2-0 loss at Emirates against West Ham and that the only thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474401,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18106,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17886,366,1076],"acf":{"announce":"Arsenal's manager admitted that his team must score goals to triumph.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474404,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474400\/revisions\/474404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474400"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474400"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}