4 Tottenham players in offside position but referee awards penalty to Harry Kane

Video footage from the game shows 4 Tottenham players in offside position. Despite the fact, Harry Kane was awarded the penalty.

Arsenal and Tottenham played a dramatic 1-1 draw in their final meeting of the Premier League this season.

Aaron Ramsey gave Arsenal the lead through a blistering counter-attack after Harry Kane lost the ball. However, the Tottenham forward made amends in the second half as he scored the equalizer with a coolly taken penalty.

The decision to award the penalty is now under the scanner, with match footage showing that four Tottenham players were offside for the goal. Despite the video evidence, referee proceeded to award the penalty to Tottenham.

Arsenal gained a massive opportunity to score the winner in the injury time as Davinson Sanchez committed a foul inside the box. However, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang missed the penalty, leaving both the sides to share the points.

Here’s the video:

“How many of those Spurs players are offside? How obvious is that?” Martin Keown said after the game.

However, there’s been an argument that the referee actually made the right decision in awarding the penalty to Harry Kane.

A user posted on the twitter that the offside rule states if “a player in an offside position is moving towards the ball with the intention of playing the ball and is fouled before playing or attempting to play the ball, or challenging an opponent for the ball, the foul is penalised as it has occurred before the offside offence.”

Shkodran Mustafi committed a foul before Kane attempted to play the ball, and hence Anthony Taylor gave the penalty to Tottenham.

Nevertheless, the Arsenal fans were fuming with the call. Unluckily for them, Aubameyang missed a huge chance to give the side a lead through an injury-time penalty.

With this draw, Arsenal remain at fourth position in the Premier League, but could fall to as low as sixth as Manchester United and Chelsea are yet to complete their weekend fixtures.

Manchester United take on Southampton at Old Trafford, while Chelsea meet relegation-threatened Fulham at the Craven Cottage.

“We’ve had a few this year not go our way, but luckily we had one go our way,” Harry Kane said after the game against Arsenal. The English forward returned to Tottenham last month after a significant injury.

Tottenham remain third in the table, but Manchester United can now close the gap to three points with Pochettino’s side after the draw. The top-4 race has now turned interesting with four teams having a reasonable chance to qualify for the Champions League next season.