A moment of absence which could have cost Standard dearly against Saint-Trond: relive Matthieu Epolo’s blunder

Dominated in the second period, the Liège Standard finally won at home against Saint-Trond. At the start of stoppage time, the Rouches yet believed they lost everything due to a gross error of Matthew Epolo. Lucky for him, the VAR intervened to cancel the goalAdriano Bertaccini.

On a long but innocuous pass, the last rampart seemed hesitant in its surface. He first seemed to want to grab the ball before letting it slip away with a goal kick. At the last moment, the goalkeeper stopped the trajectory of the leather to leave it in the playing area. The problem? Bertaccini had followed the action and appeared at the goalkeeper’s feet.

The former RFC Liège striker was finally flagged offside by the video referee. Enough to frustrate him. “I saw the images directly after the meeting. I knew that basically I was offside. When the goalkeeper does anything with the ball to waste time and doesn’t pay attention, that’s another action. The referee told me he didn’t have control of the ball. A goalkeeper can play with his hands, he didn’t need to play with his feet” hammered the offensive into Frank Peterkenne’s microphone.

Whatever the case, Epolo will have given a nice scare to a Standard which doesn’t really need it at the moment.