Great spot by the VAR!!
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Great spot by the VAR!!
VAR producing an outcome that not even the officials would've wanted. Under normal circumstances, spirit of the game would've been preserved by an assumption that the ball had just crossed the line. Instead an undeserved penalty on a technicality
santa sangria
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Daft. A senior ref might be able to shrug VAR off here but very difficult fir the ref here.
Agree, that is a ridiculous intervention. Not a single person was expecting anything there, the ball was clearly going out for a goal kick and it was just a totally pointless intervention.
I don't think it could ever be said that a substitute interfering with play was trivial to the extent that it shouldn't be punished. To let that go could have been very risky.
I might also add that no one would have expected a substitute to be daft enough to play a ball which was still in the FOP!
Devils advocate (you know me) thatâs not called.
Can guara-damn-tee that studio pundits wouldâve been all over that if it want given, about how a team was robbed etc. And certain âcharactersâ within the game wouldâve âseenâ it right away.
He wonât do it again thatâs for sure!
Can guara-damn-tee that studio pundits wouldâve been all over that if it want given, about how a team was robbed etc. And certain âcharactersâ within the game wouldâve âseenâ it right away.
He wonât do it again thatâs for sure!
Have to ask why were they allowed to be warming up there in the first place.
Peter Grove
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That's what I was thinking as well. One of the leagues I used to officiate in had a playing rule that no one was allowed behind the goals during play. Spectators, coaches, subs warming up etc, were only allowed on the sides of the field.
Iâm not questioning the outcome but who watches this and thinks that the punishment doesnât fit the crime?
I think for lower level football, itâs fair enough to just allow the goal kick, but at the top tier of German football, the ref has to give it. Itâs pretty ridiculous but it is correct in law. Itâs up to the penalty taker to do the ârightâ thing and maybe miss the pen on purpose. Donât think anyone at a grassroots level would punish that. On the other hand, if they follow the LOTG that closely, why is dissent very rarely punished 
This would've been in 'the spirit of the game', but the taker may have been sacked by his money orientated club
They always do in German football, baffling...think some may change that now!
Very true, although couldâve been a bit of good publicity for them
Leeds would have kicked it out.. Proper club!
FIFA Fair Play Award Winners y'know
I very much doubt that anyone in the studio would have spotted it, let alone knowing that the outcome is a penalty.
To caveat my previous point, once the VAR alerts the referee to it and he goes and looks at the screen he obviously has to give the penalty. It was more just does he really need to alert the referee knowing what the outcome would be. That isn't what the law was brought in for, rather it was for when a sub ran onto the pitch to actually influence play.
Vars spoiling the second tier of German football... itâs coming tâchampionship soon boys.... we better hanker down, itâs going to be a ruff en! This could get messy! 
one
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That sound better if you say it with a German accent.