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I've watched the Brentford goal multiple times and still can't see who's supposed to be offside? There were a few players in offside positions who got nowhere near the ball but it looks a perfectly good goal to me. Every player who touched the ball for Brentford was onside when it was played by the player before.
It confused me for a long time too, based off the pictures in that tweet that @awop posted. Also from not reading the article properly when you click through and just reading the captions under the pictures, The brief highlights I saw on the Sky Sports football Youtube channel didn't mention any potential offside.
It's when the ball is headed down to Norgaard by Pinnock where the offside is. Norgaard crosses to Toney who heads it in. From the one regular camera angle that I saw plus one replay you can't really tell that all as there were lots of bodies in the way. The right-hand picture in the tweet is what that depicts.
For the longest time I was thinking they were claiming offside for when the free kick was taken. There are two players in offside positions there. One is Pinnock, the other Mee. Pinnock does become involved in the move later on but the original ball that goes to Toney isn't really near him and an Arsenal player gets a head on it before Pinnock becomes involved. Either different phase of play or not affecting things I'd have said of Pinnock and Mee which was causing my confusion.
The article (when clicking on the Tweet) seems to think Arteta was claiming offside against one or both of Pinnock or Mee immediately after the match when reading through it too If so, he might've missed the Norgaard one as well at least at first. I believe the VAR looked into the Pinnock/Mee one, decided that they weren't involved/it was a different phase by the time Pinnock was and that was it. VAR didn't check the Norgaard one.
So it's this moment, Norgaard (far left) is offside:
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