Wow, just wow. This was a bad decision by both one of the best referees in the world (according to PGMOL, UEFA & FIFA) and by the VAR. They will be marked down accordingly. Conversely, the VAR will also be praised for correctly not intervening in two other critical penalty decisions and probably for a number of other situations in the game as well. Hanging out officials to dry for one error on a referee forum just seems bizarre to me .. surely, of all people, we know how difficult refereeing is. And we can only imagine the additional pressure involved in games being watched by tens of thousands live and 100's of millions on TV ...