June 20, 20187 yr I'd disagree! The instances of bad refereeing this cup have been referees unused to VAR not making the calls correctly, and when it has used it has been used to award deserved penalties, some of which have been converted into goals, others that haven't. Probably a major factor in the other good stat of no 0-0 results. Hasn't been perfect but I'm very glad it's being used.
June 20, 20187 yr I'd disagree! The instances of bad refereeing this cup have been referees unused to VAR not making the calls correctly. .. and this makes it a good reason to bring it now because??? There just isn't the time available to be able to make VAR (in its current form) effective so we end up with this compromise which doesn't satisfy anyone really.
June 20, 20187 yr There are few cases of those and they're isolated, the England game and maybe one or two others. It's working well in most games, I'm satisfied with what it's doing to the tournament and from browsing Reddit and Twitter I've seen a fair amount of positive comments about it also. Particularly when it's used well like in the Sweden-South Korea match. People want it to work and that's going to keep FIFA challenged to making it better.  Like so: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2018/...impression=true Analysing what went wrong and holding the refereeing bodies to their decisions. It's much better than it not being there. I would rather that they force it into the WC with a high profile trial like this rather than keep putting it off because it's 'not ready to be used at a major tournament'.
June 22, 20187 yr Author Amazes me that VAR didn't see that incident with Mitrovic being hold down just then.
June 22, 20187 yr Author What is the point of having VAR at these finals if they are not going to pick up on the wrestling like challenges in the box.
June 25, 20187 yr I've changed my mind: After tonight's Portugal v Iran game, I now LOVE IT. :DÂ It needs some work, sure it adds some drama but the amount of non-penalties that are been awarded is bloody crazy. It certainly needs some refinement.
June 25, 20187 yr Tonight annoyed me - all the waiting for decisions and play acting to get VAR to be involved made it terrible for me/ who wants to wait before celebrating every goal?
June 30, 20187 yr Author Naturally FIFA want VAR to improve and cut out any mistakes - they won't want a mistake deciding one of the knockout games in their showpiece event.Â
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