VAR - Man City

[magicdaps10]

If the referee didn't blow, then it should be a goal. Those sat in the VAR caravan are slowly killing the enjoyment of the game.

I'm taking that you mean that is the case for every decision, if the ref doesn't blow then it should be a goal?
VAR has made plenty of bad decisions and ones that can be argued to the rules of the game but today's decision isn't one of them.
If that happens when the 2 teams are drawing then the conversation would be totally different but for some reason it's being looked at differently today.

It's like the 2 goals we conceded against Citeh in the cup under Potter. The ref gave a penalty and the offside Aguero goal when they shouldn't have stood.....something many of us have said for years and wished VAR was in effect for that game.

 

[Smurph]

I'm taking that you mean that is the case for every decision, if the ref doesn't blow then it should be a goal?
VAR has made plenty of bad decisions and ones that can be argued to the rules of the game but today's decision isn't one of them.
If that happens when the 2 teams are drawing then the conversation would be totally different but for some reason it's being looked at differently today.

It's like the 2 goals we conceded against Citeh in the cup under Potter. The ref gave a penalty and the offside Aguero goal when they shouldn't have stood.....something many of us have said for years and wished VAR was in effect for that game.

It was goal, there was no need for VAR to intervene. That's my last word on the subject.

 

[magicdaps10]

It was goal, there was no need for VAR to intervene. That's my last word on the subject.

Well it did and rightly over ruled the goal due to foul play.

 

[mrploppy]

Well it did and rightly over ruled the goal due to foul play.

Exactly. And that's my last word on the subject.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Well it did and rightly over ruled the goal due to foul play.

The outcome being a City goal ruled out and them given a free kick instead for a foul in the build up to the goal that was then ruled out. And a Szoboszlai red card for denying a goalscoring opportunity despite the fact that he didn’t because City scored. Only for it to be then ruled out and replaced with a free kick for a foul in the build up. To a goal. Which City scored.

Make it make sense.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Keep goal-line technology, keep VAR for violent conduct, bin the rest.

 

[magicdaps10]

The outcome being a City goal ruled out and them given a free kick instead for a foul in the build up to the goal that was then ruled out. And a Szoboszlai red card for denying a goalscoring opportunity despite the fact that he didn’t because City scored. Only for it to be then ruled out and replaced with a free kick for a foul in the build up. To a goal. Which City scored.

Make it make sense.

I think you have to look at it that Szoboszlai makes a foul and advantage is played and then further on Haaland then fouls Szoboszlai....part of you feels that the goal should just be given because the first foul is by a Liverpool player but that can't be the reason just to ignore the Haaland foul.
Its frustrating but ultimately the rules can't be ignored.

 

[Swans Jack]

New depths of how VAR is ruining the game.

Man City's third goal a joy to watch.

Im I on my own as well and hate the ref also talking to the stadium. I'm happy we have don't have them both. Feels like TV show Gladiators

 

[magicdaps10]

One thing for certain, it's a good discussion point which makes football so interesting

 

[Smurph]

Over zealous officials ruining the game. I prefer the era when they were irrelevant.

 

[mrploppy]

The outcome being a City goal ruled out and them given a free kick instead for a foul in the build up to the goal that was then ruled out. And a Szoboszlai red card for denying a goalscoring opportunity despite the fact that he didn’t because City scored. Only for it to be then ruled out and replaced with a free kick for a foul in the build up. To a goal. Which City scored.

Make it make sense.

I said I'd had my last word. Damn. You can't ignore Haaland's "revenge" foul on Szoboszlai, because if not fouled Szoboszlai could have stopped the ball crossing the line. That's why it makes sense.

That's my last word(s).

 

[Swanjaxs]

Over zealous officials ruining the game. I prefer the era when they were irrelevant.

If you have to draw a line to see if a player is onside or offside then onside it is.

 

[Smurph]

If you have to draw a line to see if a player is onside or offside then onside it is.

Same applies to them taking minutes upon minutes to try and figure things out. If you can't make a decision or rule something out straight away it needs to stop and continue with play.

The benefit of the doubt should always go to the attacking team. They've sanitized the game far too much.

 

[monmouth]

I don't understand the outrage over that. Szob clearly pulled back Haaland - a red card (correctly). Haaland then fouled Szob, who possibly could have stopped the ball crossing the line otherwise. You can play advantage after the first offence, but you can't just ignore the second offence. VAR perfectly correct in my book.

Yeah this. If The Norwegian Robot hadn’t fouled Slobo and the ball went in the goal would have stood and there’d have been no red card or need for VAR.

 

[monmouth]

If you have to draw a line to see if a player is onside or offside then onside it is.

They can and should only implement VAR for clear and obvious errors, as it was intended, not searching for marginal and microscopic things. It’s not there to check every goal to see if they can find anything to disallow it. You should rarely see it used.