Marco Silva spoke to: BBC Match of the day about his ‘frustating evening’ as Fulham’s lost against West Ham: “For many different reasons, first of all for the result and we lost the game. Definitely didn’t deserve much more from the game and so many incidents that dictate the result the result this evening.
“For me, it’s clear firstly to talk about ourselves and the goal we conceded we gave a goal basically at this level if you want to win football matches you cant. And of course after the incident the referees decision were at a very low level in my opinion. Not at the level a game like this one, decisive games in this moment in the season should be and have the impact of VAR. And John Brooks with Fulham Football Club, he was on VAR and he was able to decide against the referee decision on the pitch is unbelievable.
“It has been a little bit the story of our season when John Brooks is involved with us. It was very unlucky again with the decision when he was not on the pitch, a decision that he took in the office looking for the decision.
“Many, many incidents that the game can be in our direction,. Even the penalty, I repeat again John Brooks took and decided against the on-field decision. Very difficult to understand mistakes in games against ourselves, but it is what is is. We have to respect. We have to do it. We cannot control.
“All the decisions, they were against us.”
Tom Cairney spoke to TNT Sports on whether it was a penalty on him that VAR decided otherwise: “Yeah because if it’s not there, I score. He’s [Taty Castellanos] not got the ball. I haven’t tackled him.
“He gave a free-kick for Josh King for exactly the same thing. He gave a foul to us where Josh King kicks him when he’s about to shoot and the same thing happened to me inside the box. The referee gives a penalty and then VAR try to find something like they normally do, send the ref over to the screen and make another decision.
“That’s what happened. If he’s not there I score.”
Did you know?
Fulham failed to score in a Premier League home game for the first time since a 1-0 loss to Arsenal in October, putting to end their longest scoring run at Craven Cottage in the top-flight (10 games) since January 2014 (13).