VAR, fine margins & 'superior' Lyon cost Arsenal Champions League final spot

VAR, fine margins & 'superior' Lyon cost Arsenal Champions League final spotTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, Lyon beat Arsenal to reach Women's Champions League finalByEmily SalleyBBC Sport journalist at Groupama StadiumPublished1 minute agoMere millimetres.That, combined with a lengthy VAR check, was what knocked defending champions Arsenal out of the Women's Champions League in the cruellest of fashion.The Gunners were heading for extra-time in Lyon after Alessia Russo scored with 15 minutes remaining to level the tie on aggregate.But their dreams of reaching back-to-back European finals were soon crushed when Jule Brand's late goal was allowed to stand following a Video Assistant Referee check that for lasted three minutes and 10 seconds.The replays showed that Arsenal defender Lotte Wubben-Moy had played the German winger onside by the smallest of margins.Image caption, The narrow margins that led to Lyon's late winnerIt wasn't the only decision that VAR took its time over and Arsenal's players were frustrated with the stop-start nature of the match at Groupama Stadium."It's hard, I felt like at the start of the game the ball was in play for about two minutes in 20," Arsenal defender Leah Williamson told BBC Sport."With the rules, I don't think we're all on the same page with it, so it's frustrating. it was very stop start."Lindsey Heaps had her seventh-minute opener disallowed by referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi, who believed Ingrid Engen and Ada Hegerberg were in an offside position in front of Arsenal keeper Daphne van Domselaar.VAR eventually agreed with Ferrieri Caputi's decision, but it wasn't long until it got involved again.The Italian referee initially waved away Melchie Dumornay and Lyon's appeal for a penalty when it appeared she had been brought down by Wubben-Moy.The replays...