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Incident-by-incident: Was it a bad weekend for VAR?
Patrick Dorgu scores Manchester United's fourth goal against Aston Villa from a corner
Manchester United's last-gasp equaliser against Aston Villa survived a VAR review for a potential foul

Whisper it quietly, but the statistics say video assistant referee (VAR) decisions have been pretty good in the Premier League so far this season.

The Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel, which looks at every contentious decision and votes whether it is right or wrong, reported just two VAR errors after eight rounds of matches.

At the same stage last season, there had been six mistakes.

Then came this weekend, during which almost every top-flight game had a controversial decision.

BBC Sport looks at most of these situations - there really were too many to do them all - and assesses the likelihood that the KMI Panel will add to the list of errors.

Man United 4-4 Aston Villa

Lammens was not looking at the ball, which increases the chances of a VAR intervention.

Arsenal 1-0 Hull

Leeds 1-0 Tottenham

Everton 3-1 Coventry

All three incidents were covered in more detail by BBC Sport on Friday.

Brighton 2-0 Brentford

Igor Thiago of Brentford uses his forearm on Chema Andres of Brighton & Hove Albion resulting in a red card
Igor Thiago will be suspended for three Premier League games after his VAR red card for violent conduct

Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool

Sunderland 0-1 Chelsea

Fulham 1-1 Newcastle

So, was it a bad weekend for VAR?

BBC Sport estimates that there are two decisions which the KMI Panel is very likely to log as a VAR error: not awarding penalties to Arsenal and Coventry.

Two further calls, Barry's goal and the potential red card to Bogle, may be errors but will depend who is on the panel and where their subjective opinion lies.

The others on the list are likely to be correct.

So we are potentially looking at two to four errors, which is not a good weekend.

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