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The problem with VAR is you can create a narrative based on whichever angle you have at your disposal.
Add in the time pressure componant, and you end up with numerous mistakes.
If you are going to use it, you need multiple cameras, angles and time to go over all footage and get the decision objectively right.
This angle shows Maguire probably doesn't foul, but both shirt tugs were in fact from De Ligt, and should have definitively been a penalty.
They dealt with the Maguire penalty shout, which was what the initial penalty was for, but not the clear penalty foul(s) by De Ligt, and this is where VAR, time, communication and angles mean were were terribly shortchanged.
They needed to take their time on this one, and get it right. Without more cameras and more time, I think there are always going to be errors like this.
The problem with VAR is you can create a narrative based on whichever angle you have at your disposal.
Add in the time pressure componant, and you end up with numerous mistakes.
If you are going to use it, you need multiple cameras, angles and time to go over all footage and get the decision objectively right.
This angle shows Maguire probably doesn't foul, but both shirt tugs were in fact from De Ligt, and should have definitively been a penalty.
They dealt with the Maguire penalty shout, which was what the initial penalty was for, but not the clear penalty foul(s) by De Ligt, and this is where VAR, time, communication and angles mean were were terribly shortchanged.
They needed to take their time on this one, and get it right. Without more cameras and more time, I think there are always going to be errors like this.