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Marco Silva slams VAR decision to not send off Dan Burn and award Fulham a ‘clear’ penalty, claiming it had a ‘huge impact’ on the game as the Cottagers fell to a late 1-0 defeat to Newcastle at St James’ Park

Fulham boss Marco Silva accused the officials of changing the game when they failed to award a penalty and send off Newcastle’s Dan Burn for what he felt was a trip on Andreas Pereira.

The Cottagers were given a spot-kick from the same passage of play for a Kieran Trippier foul on Bobby Reid, but VAR decided that Pereira had gone down too easily when clear on goal. Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic then saw his converted penalty disallowed having slipped and kicked the ball onto his standing foot.

Newcastle duly took all three points when Alexander Isak headed home in the 89th minute, but Silva was not happy.