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Vincent Kompany fumed over the decision to allow Luton’s controversial stoppage-time equaliser as Burnley have been denied a essential three factors in a 1-1 draw in opposition to their relegation rivals at Turf Moor.
Carlton Morris headed into an empty internet after Burnley goalkeeper James Trafford was blocked by Elijah Adebayo as he tried to declare Alfie Doughty’s cross, however referee Tony Harrington was unmoved and VAR Peter Bankes upheld the purpose following a prolonged verify.
After Zeki Amdouni’s Thirty sixth-minute purpose, Burnley had been moments away from celebrating a win that will have put them a level behind Luton and inside touching distance of security, however as a substitute it was the Hatters who moved degree on factors with Seventeenth-placed Everton.
“It’s a joke, a joke,” the Burnley boss stated. “I will start by saying 100 per cent respect and credit to Luton, they’re a terrific outfit, what they do as a club, the players, managers, they deserve whatever is coming to them, a really good club.
“In that phase I’ve just got to defend my team, my club. I don’t understand how we can go through this phase and those events and not come to the conclusion it’s a foul.
“The striker, good luck to him, his first look is at the goalkeeper, he has a look and takes a couple of steps back and backs into him, clears a way for his colleague, then has a look at the referee to see if he gets away with it. The ball goes in, none of the Luton players celebrate, nobody.”
JJ Watt, Burnley co-owner, described the decision to allow the purpose to stand as “truly disgraceful.”
The former NFL star wrote on X: “I’m new to this ownership thing, so if I get fined by the Premier League, so be it…
“This is as blatant and obvious of a foul as you could have.
“To miss this on the field AND miss this on VAR is truly disgraceful.”
Kompany additionally pointed to a collection of controversial choices which have gone in opposition to his aspect this season.
I do not perceive how we will undergo this section and people occasions and never come to the conclusion it is a foul.
Vincent Kompany
“For those that where there for Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Forest, how many times is it going to keep happening? A couple of lines in the newspaper and on we go. Consequences? Zero,” he stated.
“Maybe we get a bit on one of the specialist things where they explain the referee decision but we won’t spend too much time on it because we need to talk about Manchester United and Liverpool. And we move on…
“It’s against my nature because I would like to congratulate Luton and tell my players what we have to do to improve. I’m shocked.
“I’m disappointed but if you know me tomorrow the only people I will blame is ourselves, what can we do better? But hopefully it will balance out and then we’ll get a lot of angry managers from the opposition when it does.”
Luton boss Rob Edwards admitted he would have been disillusioned to have been on Burnley’s finish of the decision, however did his greatest to argue there had been no foul.
“Obviously I’m really pleased to get a point,” he stated. “In the end that’s nothing less than we deserved. We were excellent. We dominated large spells of the game. In the first half we dominated and looked a threat. In the second half we blocked things up a bit more made it difficult to get behind…
“We showed a lot of control without hurting them but we kept going, the team doesn’t give in and we found a way, whatever way it was.
“It’s difficult. VAR is there to show if a decision is blatantly wrong and I don’t think it is blatantly wrong. But I can understand their frustration. There is contact there with James Trafford but if it hadn’t have been given I would have been frustrated because it was pretty minimal.”
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