Aaron Ramsdale makes feelings clear as controversial VAR call denies Southampton much-needed win

Aaron Ramsdale was not impressed after Southampton had been denied victory by a contentious VAR choice in a 1-1 draw.

The Saints regarded to have received their conflict with Brighton on Friday night time when Cameron Archer swept dwelling from shut vary.

Nevertheless that effort was controversially chalked off following a prolonged stoppage.

Having discovered the web, play was stopped for round 4 and a half minutes as VAR assessed the build-up to the purpose.

They ultimately determined that the purpose could be dominated out after Adam Armstrong was adjudged to have interfered with Ryan Fraser’s cross into the field earlier than Archer’s end.

With Armstrong standing in an offside place, the purpose was disallowed.

As Southampton’s gamers and head coach Russell Martin watched on in disbelief, their goalkeeper Ramsdale was fast to take to social media to precise his views.

On X, Ramsdale wrote: “You can’t be severe.” with a facepalm emoji.

The previous Arsenal goalkeeper is at present sidelined with a finger harm and was changed within the staff by Joe Lumley.

The Premier League Match Centre X account then clarified their choice, posting: “The referee’s name of no purpose was checked and confirmed by the VAR as Armstrong was in an offside place and deemed to be impacting Varbruggen’s capability to play the ball.”

It meant that the match ended 1-1 on the remaining whistle.

Brighton took the lead after 29 minutes when Kaoru Mitoma gave the hosts the lead.

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Southampton then discovered a approach again into it with a neat strike from Flynn Downes after 59 minutes.

It was the Seagulls who definitely had the vast majority of the play and had probabilities to win the sport, however with the VAR name in thoughts, they had been maybe lucky to return away with some extent.

A draw for Brighton has seen them transfer as much as second within the Premier League desk on purpose distinction.

In the meantime a win for Southampton would have seen the bottom-placed aspect transfer to inside touching distance of the edges above them.