Wenger highlights 3 errors VAR could have prevented in Arsenal's history

For better or for worse, football has entered the era of the Video Assisted Referee (VAR) and for Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, the introduction of this new refereeing technology has him wondering what could have been.

Wenger is a man who has never shied away from looking back at his and his club’s past mistakes. And when asked by Arsenal Player to name a few failures VAR would have prevented, Wenger highlighted a few moments in Arsenal’s history that could have gone differently if video replay was implemented at the time.

“I would choose Barcelona’s equaliser (by Samuel Eto’o) in the 2006 Champions League final because it was offside, and we were 1-0 up with 30 minutes to go. That’s the trophy I miss here, you know, so that is for me the most important one.

“The second one I would choose is the second yellow card for Robin Van Persie at Barcelona in 2011, because this was the moment we were qualified against a very strong team, and it was a very difficult decision to accept – it basically killed our chances.

“After that maybe I go to a more recent decision – against Bayern Munich when Laurent Koscielny was sent off for a penalty when (Robert) Lewandowski was offside. That just comes to my mind now but maybe I forget many, many, many, many more.”