L’incident s’est produit à la 23e minute du match lorsque l’attaquant Yira Sor a suivi le penalty manqué de son coéquipier Bryan Heynan pour terminer devant l’ancien gardien de Leicester City Kasper Schmeichel
- However, the replay also showed that two Anderlecht players had also encroached into the penalty area, which, according to the laws of the game, should have resulted in penalty being retaken, rather than the match officials’ decision which was to award Anderlecht a free kick
- Belgium’s refereeing body had initially ruled that the match would not be replayed as they regarded the incident as a VAR error rather than a misapplication of the laws of the game
However, appealed the decision to the Disciplinary Council for Professional Football who overturned the refereeing body’s decision and ruled that the match should be replayed in full
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