Out of interest, what is the Loophole?

At least there was a crowd...where are the column inches about the etihad being empty in the middle of a title race?

Essentially yes, they stick with the on-field decision if the outcome of the technology falls within the margin for error threshold.

It's definitely a uefa penalty. They are at least kind of consistent I guess??

What is VAR doing in these instances?

It’s because the stated role of vAR is referee mistake focused (clear and obvious etc) NOT correct decision focused.

So you can have things that are clearly on review a foul or whatever, but because it doesn’t fit some criteria on whether it was a reasonable mistake they pretend they can’t see it

xG doesn’t agree