Manqoba Mngqithi on Golden Arrows loss to Kaizer Chiefs: The absence of VAR in the PSL will continue to haunt us when we lose the way we did at Chiefs

Manqoba Mngqithi has lambasted the absence of VAR in the local game as the main reason his Golden Arrows team lost 1-0 to Kaizer Chiefs.

Mngqithi’s Arrows lost their Betway Premiership clash at FNB Stadium via an Aiden McCarthy goal, which Mngqithi suggest was not supposed to stand.

According to the former Mamelodi Sundowns coach, had the PSL had Video Assistant Referee, this goal would not have stood.

“The stakes are very high. We work very hard to build our teams. If you want to see that this goal was offside, just wait for the touch that goes to Silva and already McCarthy is on the other side, he’s offside,” he said after game.

“And we lose the game, nobody cares. You concede goals, people are saying ‘no, you conceded because you didn’t defend well’. But the reality is the league must very hard on VAR, the game has become too dynamic.

“It’s not us, it’s the game that should tell us that it’s too difficult even for the officials to follow and track the runs of the players, because I cannot always blame the officials – the game itself has become too dynamic and it demands that we have to respond to that.

“We are not playing for R500 000 here, we are playing for R20 million. So we should consider looking into this thing of VAR otherwise we will keep losing matches like this and people will be ok with it.”

Mngqithi maintained Chiefs won the game “against the laws of the game”.

“We lost another game because of an offside goal,” he said.

“That does not make me feel good. When we lose matches, people sing like this that they have won a match, but the reality is we won the match against the laws of the game.”