The Premier League have released a statement clarifying why Nottingham Forest were controversially denied a penalty in their clash against Wolves at Molineux. Forest went into the break 2-0 ahead thanks to goals from Morgan Gibbs-White and Chris Wood. But the scoreline could have been even greater had Nuno Espirito Santo’s side been awarded a penalty for a perceived handball by Wolves full-back Rayan Ait-Nouri.
Ait-Nouri’s arm appeared to be outstretched in the area as the ball struck it, but the Algeria international attempted to pull it back in at the same time.
VAR decided not to send referee Peter Bankes to the monitor and the penalty was not awarded.
The Premier League have now explained the decision, posting to their official Match Centre Twitter account: “The referee’s call of no penalty for a potential handball by Ait-Nouri was checked and confirmed by VAR, who deemed his arm was in a natural position.”
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