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Post by claphamshrew on Jan 27, 2020 12:17:56 GMT 1
If the free kick had been given instead of the penalty their player would have been sent off. he should have gone anyway, I was fuming at the time tell me the difference between the Fulham red card and Liverpools To be fair that does look like a professional foul rather than a genuine attempt to play the ball but I guess it was hard to tell in real time. I suspect the City one was checked with VAR to confirm the red even if the ref gave it initially. A yellow and a penalty is more of of an advantage than a red and a free kick given the circumstances imo so I’m not complaining.
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Post by venceremos on Jan 27, 2020 12:22:33 GMT 1
I’m glad there was no VAR. Not because of the way decisions may or may not have been changed but because it would have killed those fantastic, spontaneous outbursts stone dead. A delayed celebration doesn’t come close and the sooner real fans recognise this the better, instead of analysing the sport to death in a vain, bloodless attempt to eliminate “incorrect” decisions.
Take up chess if your preference is for analysis and absolute precision.
But anyway: Fabinho’s handball could well have been given as a penalty - doesn’t have to be looking at the ball, his arm was stretched away from his body (remember Man Utd’s pen at PSG). Pierre’s would probably have been a pen. Still not convinced Laurent wasn’t just inside the area but, if he wasn’t, then Larouci has to get a red card because there can be no “double jeopardy”. I think he should have got a red anyway because that wasn’t an attempt to win the ball. Most importantly of all, none of that makes any difference. What happened, happened, and that’s as it should be.
My one consolation for missing the replay is that I won’t have to suffer the indignities of being a fan in the ground with VAR operational, waiting like an anxious school kid for the man in the box to tell me whether I can react yet.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 27, 2020 12:30:15 GMT 1
VAR would have slowed the whole thing down and probably taken the sting out of our second half rampage and allowed 'pool to regroup.
We are about to find out the effect of VAR at Anfield.
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Post by Pilch on Jan 27, 2020 12:34:48 GMT 1
VAR should be there for just the following
Red card offences
Diving offences
offsides
the offside rule needs relaxing any part of the body onside would be ok by me
there are no need for linesmen to have a flag in VAR games
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