His assistant Blake Antrobus was also not assigned any refereeing mission, after the Professional Referees Committee acknowledged in a statement that the video technology had erred in calculating Haaland’s goal.
The Chairman of the Referees Committee, Howard Webb, and his assistant team made the decision, while neither referee is expected to return to their duties at least before the end of the international break.
Haaland’s goal in the second half was initially ruled out for offside, before it was counted after a video technology review concluded that the Norwegian striker was not in an offside position.
But the referees committee later clarified that the video technology team did not take into account the impact of his colleague Enzo Fernandez, who tried to play the ball from an offside position, which required maintaining the decision.
