Former UEFA referees committee chairman Mohammed Omar has confirmed the validity of the scored goal, scored by Al Ain player, Laba Kodjo, against Sharjah, and was canceled by the referee's video technique (FAR), due to the presence of offside during the match with Sharjah on Last Thursday, which ended in the victory of Sharjah 3-2, in the third round of the Arabian Gulf Football League. Mohammed Omar described the case as one of the delicate arbitration cases, pointing out that the adjudicator applied the law, pointing out that the verdict of the arena, Ammar al-Junaibi, did not intervene because he was not called by the rule of video technology to watch the case, stressing «I trust that the referee was Calculating the canceled target, if called by the video technology. ”
"Far was not accurate in his decision to cancel Al Ain's goal because the player in question was not in offside, because the Sharjah defender was late, so in my estimation the goal canceled was correct," Omar told Emirates Today.
Omar added: «Assistant Referee applied the law correctly in this case, before the referee intervenes video and make its decision to cancel the target».
He stressed the importance of having an imaginary line that helps the rule of video technology to make its decision, especially in such delicate arbitration cases.
The Al Ain Football Club Company has lodged an official protest to the Football Association and the Professional Association after describing what happened as “arbitration errors”, which accompanied the team's game against Sharjah, in the third round, noting, in an official statement, that «video technology project (Far) was adopted in order to improve the performance of the referees, and to ensure the principle of equal opportunities between competing clubs in all games in various tournaments, pointing out that «the decision to cancel a correct goal for the eye at a crucial time of the game has affected the result, as all the arbitration experts in various channels , Which cost the club and its fans a loss of three points in the mesh Loire challenged the title.