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This misunderstanding seems be everywhere
Var are always there on Comms. They would have been in the refs ear about a "possible offside - keepers line of sight blocked" as he stood like a statue on the edge of the box.

Ref had a great view and keeper lay flat on his back and didn't appeal. It felt to me like they made a "decision" 30 seconds later so that it had to be obvious enough to overrule the *on field decision*.

Thank God Bernardo bent the knee because that might have made the last bit of difference for it to be subjective enough to have to send the ref to the monitor.
 
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Var are always their on Comms. They would have been in the refs ear about a "possible offside - keepers line of sight blocked" as he stood like a statue on the edge of the box.

Ref had a great view and keeper lay flat on his back and didn't appeal. It felt to me like they made a "decision" 30 seconds later so it had to be obvious enough to overrule the *on field decision*.

Thank God Bernardo bent the knee because that might have made the last bit of difference for it to be subjective enough to have to send the ref to the monitor.

Atwell hmmmm
 
VAR has to check every goal as a matter of course, don't they? Usually that means a ten minute wait to see if they can find a technicality or loophole in the rules which will allow them to disallow it, but this time they seem to have got a shock when the linesman raised his flag, timidly and hesitantly, to give offside. But this time VAR did its job and called the ref over because they couldn't see anything wrong. The ref didn't take more than a cursory look, which seemed to support his view, and gave the goal. A simple and correct decision made complicated by a linesman who wilted under pressure.
 

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