It was not a good VAR decision to call to ask the ref to review, but if we all saw that it should not have been a penalty, and UEFA thinks that it wasn’t a good call, why isn’t the match ref punished? He made the final call.
Was there pressure from the corrupt journalist-murdering sportswahers to punish the refs who dared to make a call against their filthy oil-funded team? If so, that’s a dangerous precedent.
I’m so confused. A few weeks back Liverpool had a last minute goal ruled out for a handball in the buildup, which was another case of the ball hitting the body first, and then the arm.
The explanation among fans was that there’s not enough clarity in the handball rule currently to distinguish handballs that come off the body first don’t count, which is annoying, but fine.
Happens again last night, and now the VAR is being stood down, which basically communicates that UEFA think something has gone wrong. So which is it? Are they going to address the rule change or not, they look like they’ve come into this season so unprepared. It wasn’t like they hadn’t been told it was recommended as an expansion to the handball rule back in April of this year.
Hang on! The ref went to monitor did he not? Then he could also see it was wrong. He should have same punishment as VAR can only suggest overturn but not make ref do it. Var did miss a peno earlier where Gordon brought someone down tho so maybe that’s the reason and not this one
VAR is like communism, great in theory, but humans ruin it
Marciniak and Kwiatkowski try be awalys a hero in Polish Ekstraklasa, nothing new :)
Why is it just this ref or this decision? I’m not saying all refs should be getting demoted but why just this particular one? There have been countless mental decisions recently.
Thing is the referee needs to stand up and say no that’s not a penalty. Not just agree with VAR, he has control of the game, it’s his decision. That was one of if not the worst penalties I’ve ever seen given in my life. I can’t believe anybody who knows anything about football could give that decision especially watching it in slow motion on video replay. What a joke!
Honest question. Why is it the VARs fault? His job is to alert the ref, and the ref then made the decision. The on-field referee should be getting blamed not the VAR. It’s the ref who makes the call.
How that information is shown to the ref is critical in the referee’s decision making. Show them a frozen frame of a ball hitting someone in the hand and their decision is immediately altered because of that.
It’s the same with red card situations. If you slow down the footage, freeze-frame it and show the worst possible angle that makes the challenge appear much worse than it actually is, then the referees decision can be altered significantly.
Because when a ref is called they feel pressured. He saw all the angles ans told the ref he was wrong, who caved. The ref got it right on field.
Ultimately its VAR’s job not to intervene in that situation, so calling the ref over at all was a colossal mistake.
When the on field ref gets called over to the monitor it’s almost always going to get overturned. VAR knows this and going by the current rules, not by what is sensible, VAR should not prompt him to check again unless they are convinced of a clear and obvious error. This was one of the worst calls I’ve seen and it took shared incompetency to get there
I don’t get this logic. I think the call for PSG is horrible (that should never be a handball) but such incidents have been consistently called for years now. I don’t understand why Reddit has decided it was the worst call ever. If you think so, you aren’t watching games every week where such calls happen all the time.
I strongly believe we need to change the handball rule. In particular, we should award indirect freekicks only unless it was fully deliberate (like Suarez at the WC). But again, the call on the PSG game was very much in line with calls we have seen every week over the last 2 years.
Because the referee already knew that he had to favor Qatar, just like in the world cup final. He can’t be punished because he did exactly what he was instructed to do.
Yeah it’s not good. Basically the referee defers to VAR, it’s not supposed to happen like that but it always does.
Because it is much easier for VAR to not call the ref to the monitor, than it is for the ref to not give the penalty to PSG at PSG stadium in front of their crowd and owners.
Important to consider that a comparative situation happened earlier without VAR interference.
It is manipulative.
The ref really had one choice and that was to make the correct decision, which wasn’t the right decision.
Oh man, they forgot to give the cut to the VAR ref. Now UEFA cannot cash in the check
The current handball rules are shite. It wont be long before players start aiming for arms in the penalty box on purpose.
I think the ex footballers themselves should stand up. Give them a proper referee training so they can sit in the VAR booth. With all their football experience they are better capable to make decisions than these guys who have never kicked a ball. Of course you’re not gonna see the starplayer multi miljonair ex player doing this but there must be a ton of ex players looking for a job that they know all about.
I highly doubt the great minds of Paul Merson and John Hartson would improve the officiating. Some footballers are thick as fuck and know little of the sport they played for nearly 2 decades.
At Coventry v Argyle last night the ball was over the goal line and out of play just before it was played back for a Coventry player to score. No VAR so we have to suck it. Evens.
Makes no difference to the result. Absolutely pointless.
Yeah sure it’s the machine’s fault, not the human’s /s
Why do these associations come out and admit they’re wrong? But can’t amend a scoreline post-game?