Every VAR error: How Arsenal escaped red cards and penalties

Every VAR error: How Arsenal escaped red cards and penaltiesImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Everton were trailing 1-0 against Arsenal and could have been awarded a penalty had there been a VAR intervention for an incident during their gameByDale JohnsonFootball issues correspondentPublished29 May 20261908 CommentsArsenal and Chelsea were the biggest beneficiaries of video assistant referee and on-field errors this season.Mikel Arteta's Gunners won the Premier League while becoming the first team to go the whole campaign without receiving a red card or conceding a penalty.But data logged by the Premier League's key match incidents (KMI) panel shows that Arsenal should have conceded three penalties and received three red cards.In total, Arsenal had seven referee mistakes in their favour, while London rivals Chelsea gained from eight.The Stamford Bridge club received two of the three incorrect VAR interventions, leading to a disallowed goal for Fulham and a penalty against Crystal Palace. The full judgements, seen by BBC Sport, show there were 25 VAR errors this season, up from the 18 in the 2024-25 campaignIt is still a marked improvement on previous years, with 31 errors in 2023-24 and 38 in 2022-23.Here, BBC Sport looks how each club was affected and lists every mistake at the end of the article.Who won and lost with VAR?This takes into account three aspects: decisions wrongly changed on review - or where the referee incorrectly stuck by his call when at the monitor - and those that should have been fixed but were not.Bournemouth and Chelsea gained most, with four in their favour.As well as the Fulham and Palace decisions, the Blues should also have conceded penalties against Brighton and Bournemouth.The Cherries escaped Marcos Senesi red cards twice, against Liverpool and Palace, and should have conceded a penalty at home to Sunderland. Plus, they got away with a wrongly awarded spot-kick in the return game against the Eagles.Arsenal gained from...