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Sokratis Slams VAR After Goal Disallowed in Arsenal Draw with Crystal Palace

Sokratis Papastathopoulos has hit out at the Premier League's use of video assistant referee (VAR) after his winning goal was disallowed in Arsenal's 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace on Sunday.

The Greek centre-back opened the scoring for the Gunners at the Emirates Stadium, and the hosts were two up inside 10 minutes when David Luiz also netted.

However, Luka Milivojevic's penalty and Jordan Ayew's 52nd-minute header drew Palace level.

Sokratis put the ball in the net again late on, but it was ruled out after a long VAR delay due to a Calum Chambers foul, which looked soft:

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"For me, it's not a foul.