Poland v Argentina, Saudi Arabia v Mexico - Wed 30th Nov 22, 19:00 | Group C | World Cup 2022

[Bigga]

This is tough watching both games on 2 screens! I'm rooting for a shock SA win, so they top the group!!

 

[paulchapo]

Exactly, how anyone sees a pen there is beyond bent.

It's nuts. The keeper comes out, brushes Messi and it's a pen??? It needs calling out, it's cheating teams and fans.

Can we employ Szczęsny as a penalty coach or on the bench in case we get to a shootout?

 

[cookster]

They might be blind, to be fair.

"Sees" being the key ;)

 

[jimharri]

Had to nip out for a while, so I've only just seen the replay of the penalty. That was a scandalous decision. Alf Grey, 1981, eat your heart out.

 

[wattle]

Some would argue that the semi automated offside system should be the only thing.

It’ll just mean we go back to the age of many things missed and a lot more controversy. It makes the game exciting for the neural (in club football) and players can celebrate like normal.

As long as human being officiate, there will always be errors as well as subjective interpretation of certain actions like the penalty call…

I’m a total VAR hater. I’d swap a city relegation I hate it that much as it is atm. That said, the chip in that ball is much much better. You more or less know now if the flag doesn’t go up within a few seconds, then it is probably onside and the point of when the ball is hit is correct. We just need to get rid of the clowns making debatable decisions from the var box. Absolute farce

 

[bluemoon32]

I still like watching Messi even though hes not the player he was, much better than that goal hanging **** Ronaldo.
Come on Argentina

 

[jimharri]

Looking at the panel, at least Zabba made an effort. The other two are scruffy looking twa gentlemen.

 

[Josh_D]

Since the introduction of the tech, I think it’s played out how I thought it would. No matter what anyone thinks, it’ll be the same if people here also did the job.

Some here think certain things that are fouls are not and some think certain calls that are pens are not. It’s all subject to your own interpretation of what you see.

No matter how many people are replaced or trained, it’ll turn out the same. On another night, another group of officials wouldn’t even take a look at the penalty call. I can’t and will never expect consistency with the use of var. One has to accept such margins of error when people are involved.

 

[bluemoon32]

Got a semi seeing Zabba again

 

[cookster]

It's a penalty if the keeper fouls the player while the ball is still live. But was it a foul?
Also, as others have said, a foul is almost never given if the attacking player gets to the ball.

It just isn't a foul though.