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VAR is in the LOTG now so I guess we can talk about it under the LOTG banner.
VAR is used for Penalties, Red cards, Goal/No goal and Mistaken identity. The latter two being primarily factual and the first two opinion.
Having seen and read about many VAR review decision changes for opinion based reviews since it was introduced, I can't think of any decision that was a 'downgrade'. That is, a red card that was rescinded to a yellow/no card or a penalty that was rescinded. Any opinion VAR incident I can think of results in a penalty being given or a player being sent off.
The thought came to me when Roma said if VAR was used they would have beat Liverpool. They had a penalty given late in the game for handball which wasn't one (against Ragnar Klavan), very unlikely for VAR to have overturned that. However the handball penalty claim earlier (against Trent Alexander-Arnold) which was not given would have likely been overturned.
I am sure someone can come here and point to some VAR 'downgrading' but the stats (if there are any) would be very lopsided.
This for me is an unseen VAR bias that needs to be looked at where VARs are more concerned with increasing punishments and not enough with reducing it.
VAR is used for Penalties, Red cards, Goal/No goal and Mistaken identity. The latter two being primarily factual and the first two opinion.
Having seen and read about many VAR review decision changes for opinion based reviews since it was introduced, I can't think of any decision that was a 'downgrade'. That is, a red card that was rescinded to a yellow/no card or a penalty that was rescinded. Any opinion VAR incident I can think of results in a penalty being given or a player being sent off.
The thought came to me when Roma said if VAR was used they would have beat Liverpool. They had a penalty given late in the game for handball which wasn't one (against Ragnar Klavan), very unlikely for VAR to have overturned that. However the handball penalty claim earlier (against Trent Alexander-Arnold) which was not given would have likely been overturned.
I am sure someone can come here and point to some VAR 'downgrading' but the stats (if there are any) would be very lopsided.
This for me is an unseen VAR bias that needs to be looked at where VARs are more concerned with increasing punishments and not enough with reducing it.