Alan Shearer blasts VAR after controversial PSG vs Arsenal penalty decision

Alan Shearer has made his thoughts perfectly clear on the decision to award Paris Saint-Germain a penalty in the Champions League semi-final second leg against Arsenal.

strike when referee Felix Zwayer was called over to the pitchside monitor. That was because VAR had spotted a potential handball by Myles Lewis-Skelly.

Replays showed that Achraf Hakimi's shot only lightly struck his hand in an earlier attack, but that was enough for a penalty to be awarded with Ally McCoist and Martin Keown making their frustration clear on commentary.

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Keown said: "Not a single player on the pitch appeals. This is where VAR spoils it. It has been a fantastic contest but to finish the game and the tie in this way, it's ridiculous."

"He cannot give this but they will," McCoist added. "You know something, I don't know Martin. Ah man alive...You look at Hakimi, doesn't even appeal for it, doesn't even look for it. He is not interested in it. Shambles."

"It has been a fantastic contest but to finish the game and the tie in this way, it's ridiculous," Keown said, before adding Raya denied Vitinha: "Justice is served. He gets down brilliantly, he has to guess right."

In the eyes of both, justice was clearly served as David Raya saved Vitinha's spot-kick but that did not prevent Shearer from also delivering a brutal verdict to social media.

"Ah man do me a favour. Handball for that is just crap. ," he wrote on X. Ultimately, it did not matter as a mistake from Thomas Partey was capitalised on by PSG with Hakimi curling one into the far corner to make it 2-0.

PSG defended admirably for the remaining ten minutes with their spot in the final against Inter confirmed while Arsenal's focus will go back onto qualifying for next season's Champions League through their Premier League finish.