The Premier League always wants to introduce the semi-automated offside before the end of the season-Liverpool FC

Semi-automated offside technology is always on the right track to make a late start in the Premier league This season.

The technology, which the league managers hope to shave an average of 31 seconds of presentation of the time necessary to check the offside, was initially to be brought after one of the international breaks last fall.

These deadlines came and came, and the league was criticized on the reasons why it had not adopted a semi-automated system already tried and tested in another competition.

Even the Premier leagueThe director of human football, Tony Scholes, admitted that “serious doubts” at the moment when the system, developed by Genius Sports, would finally receive the green light.

However, he said that “significant progress” has been made in recent weeks and that Saot was now about to be brought.

“The system we have adopted, we think it’s the best system,” he said.

“We think it is also the most precise and most unraveling system. I must admit, given the difficulties we had during the first months of the season, I had serious doubts about this, but the progress made in the last four to six weeks have been significant. »»

Scholes insisted to introduce it with potentially only a handful of games to make would not create a problem of integrity.

“The operation of semi-automated offside technology does not change the integrity of the law of offside and does not change the integrity of decision-making,” he said.

“We have 100% clarification (on the offside after the Var checks) this season, so that will not improve precision. What he does is to make the process more effective. »»

In an effort to improve communication with fans, in particular those of the stadiums, Scholes said that it is probably that referees will announce the result of Var criticisms from the start of next season, a protocol currently tested in this season Carabao cup semi-finals.

Scholes said the Premier league would also continue to lobby to be able to broadcast audio live between the referees and the Var, which is currently not authorized by the legislators of the game, the International Football Association (IFAB) board.

The data from the key correspondence (KMI) incidents panel for the season until the 23rd match match found a total of 13 Var – four errors where the Var overthrew a correct decision taken on the field and nine missed interventions. It was a decrease of 20 errors of this type recorded at the same time last season.

The covered period includes Michael Oliver’s red card for ArsenalMyles Lewis-Skelly against Wolves January 25 for a fault on Matt Doherty which has since been canceled by an independent regulatory committee under the auspices of the football association.

THE Premier league I did not say if it had been considered an incorrect decision on the ground, a missed intervention or both. It is understood that the conclusions of the Panel KMI for the series of matches, including the dismissal of Lewis-Skelly, have not yet been broadcast in clubs.

“No one here underestimates the meaning and impact of a single error,” said Scholes, generally speaking of the results of the KMI panel for the season rather than the Oliver incident.

“We know that one error can cost clubs. The points can cost and the results can cost managers, potentially players in their place. They are important.

“They are extremely important in a game of sites with such high stakes. Our absolute goal is therefore to reduce this number as far as possible. »»

The accuracy of decision -making after Var checks increased from 95.7% to 96.4%.

Scholes stressed that the KMI panel had found that 66 of the 70 Var reversals were correct.

“It is absolutely true that we continue to push these officials, that we continue to push them to be as good as possible, but it is also true that we recognize that progress is made,” he said.

“We do not get the best performance of the people we constantly criticize, that we constantly beat errors made, it is true that we recognize progress.

“These guys are good, and the rest of the world see it. The rest of the world recognizes how good they are. If we count them against previous years, they are also very good. »»

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There have been criticisms not only of Oliver’s decision on the field on Lewis-Skelly, but also the failure of Var Darren England to advise an examination at the Pitchsoid Monitor.

Scholes said that Vars had been trained to have the “courage of their convictions” to request an even examination where an official on the ground was more senior.

“If it is a factual decision, then (the Var will reverse it by themselves, and I do not think that anyone who has a real problem with this,” he said.

“If it is a subjective decision, it goes to the arbitrator anyway on the ground. Thus, the Vars are trained, are developed, to ignore who is the individual on the ground and make the decision according to what they see before them. »»