Chelsea head coach Sonia Bompastor has raised issues in regards to the absence of goal-line know-how in girls’s soccer after her crew’s 5-2 win over Tottenham within the Ladies’s Tremendous League.
Chelsea took an early lead by way of Maika Hamano, however controversy struck when Tottenham’s Amanda Nilden scored a contentious aim that levelled the sport.
Chelsea’s goalkeeper, Hannah Hampton, was adamant that the ball had not crossed the road, however referee Emily Heaslip allowed the aim to face, even reserving Hampton for her protests.
Replays confirmed the ball was clearly not over the road, sparking mass debate on-line over why the ladies’s recreation doesn’t function in the identical means as the lads’s.
Talking after the sport, Bompastor mentioned: “I simply assume in such a scenario, we simply want to assist the referees.
“From what I used to be watching, it’s all troublesome to say if the ball was in or out.
“I simply really feel like if the know-how [is there] for the lads’s recreation, why don’t we’ve got the identical?
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“I believe it can assist the referees, and for the assistant referee, I believe that’s a tough name to make.
“If you’re very certain one hundred pc the ball was in, yeah you may make the decision. In the event you’re uncertain, it’s actually troublesome, however that’s the way in which it’s. The referee comes to a decision, we’ve got to just accept that.
“If the know-how is on, we should always use it. It’s about having a price range – it prices cash. If we wish to look skilled, we simply must have the identical factor as the lads’s recreation.”
Because it stands, neither goal-line know-how or VAR is necessary within the WSL attributable to many groups enjoying in venues that lack the mandatory infrastructure.
Tottenham’s supervisor, Robert Vilahamn, supported Bompastor’s stance, including: “VAR or goal-line know-how, if we are able to get it proper and never lose the momentum of the sport, deliver it proper in – simply ensure that we don’t disrupt the video games an excessive amount of.
“However goal-line know-how is an effective factor, it’s a fast resolution, so why not?”
Following the disputed aim, an own-goal from Tottenham restored Chelsea’s lead.
Though Eveliina Summanen’s set-piece aim gave Tottenham a glimmer of hope, Chelsea’s Johanna Rytting Kaneryd’s brace to take her to the highest of the Golden Boot standings was sufficient to get the job performed.
Chelsea now head into the worldwide break with an ideal document, having received all 4 of their opening video games, inserting them second within the WSL standings.
In the meantime, Tottenham sit in eighth, with only a win and a draw from their first 4 matches.
