Late equalizer lifts Watford

Video assistant referees were trialed in domestic English soccer for the first time this week.

Unfortunately for Southampton, they aren’t being used in the Premier League.

Southampton conceded a 90th-minute equalizer in its 2-2 draw at Watford on Saturday after Abdoulaye Doucoure forced the ball into the net with his right hand.

Southampton’s players protested but neither the referee nor his assistants saw an offense. A VAR surely would have.

“If VAR had come in, we probably wouldn’t get that,” said Watford captain Troy 1992) with a second-half dou- Deeney, who set up Dou- ble in a 4-0 win over Everton coure’s goal, “but today we The England striker got it. It’s the luck of the moved onto 98 goals, one draw.” more than Sheringham,

Used for the first time in and reached 20 goals in the England for the national league for the fourth consecutive team’s friendly against Germany year. in November, VARs Son Heung-min and were deployed in domestic Christian Eriksen scored the soccer this week for the FA other goals at Wembley Stadium Cup third-round game between as Tottenham moved Brighton and Crystal level on points with fourthplace Palace on Monday. They were Liverpool, whose game also used for the League Cup in hand is against Manchester semifinal between Chelsea City on Sunday. and Arsenal on Wednesday.

They remain a source of debate, but incidents like the one at Vicarage Road may yet hasten their arrival.

Here’s a look the rest of Saturday’s games, where there were wins for Tottenham — on another recordsetting day for Harry Kane — West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace and West Ham: points. Both teams are 15 adrift of Man City.

STEVEN PASTON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Watford’s Abdoulaye Doucoure scores the tying goal against Southampton on Saturday.