Bournemouth had a goal ruled out inside the opening minutes of their clash against Chelsea. Antoine Semenyo thought he had fired the Cherries ahead at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday afternoon before the Video Assistant Referee intervened.
The Blues held their line when Alex Scott delivered a cross into the box. Evanilson, who had strayed offside, latched onto the pass, but his first touch invited a challenge from Trevoh Chalobah.
The Chelsea defender's clearance fell to the feet of Semenyo, who smashed the ball past Robert Sanchez and Malo Gusto from close range. Craig Pawson and his assistant, Alex Chilowicz, reviewed the incident from Stockley Park.
After much deliberation, they eventually deemed the Bournemouth striker to have committed an offside offence in the build-up. Michael Oliver communicated the decision, which, unsurprisingly, didn't go down well with the home faithful.
An official statement from the Premier League Match Centre on X, formerly known as Twitter, reads: "VAR checked the referee’s call of goal – and established that Evanilson was in an offside position in the build-up and recommended that the goal was disallowed."
Speaking to reporters at Cobham on Friday, Enzo Maresca admitted he's well aware of the threat that the Cherries pose. The Chelsea boss said: "I think Bournemouth will be a similar game to Leeds.
"That's where we need to be better. They are intense, Leeds was very intense. I think I said after the game that they were better than us in all the aspects and hopefully we can learn from that and be ready for tomorrow."
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