Heard about the game and watching the replay now. When AR1 gives the initial offside on England’s 2nd goal the camera pans to her and she’s clearly wearing an earring/jewelry. Do lady refs have standards for that kind of thing?
Watching this again, I rescind my previous statement that it wasn't intentional. Easy red, and a bad miss by the VAR
And Unkel isn't clear that that's what VAR is looking at. I don't see any angle clearly showing the ball coming off the hand/arm.
The graphic in the corner said "No goal - foul". I think they have a separate graphic for "No goal - handling". So I'm guessing it was for a foul on the keeper instead of handling. From that perspective, I guess it's a classic "Player A got it first so player B is guilty for the collision". I'm with Unkel that I don't think it's clear and obvious.
So there were three potential issues there: Foul on the GK, handling on attacker, and GK possession. Analysts didn't discuss what VAR decided was the issue. Great stuff all around.
That goal is never ruled out in the men's World Cup (unless the new handling law was involved), based on the high standard of VAR last year.
Who announces what VAR is checking? Is it just assumed from context, or does the VAR room let the broadcast crew know why? If assumed, some tech guy might have chosen foul because that's what everyone was talking about even though handling to me seems to be the actual reason and valid one.
Is that a Fox graphic based on what they think happened, or something official? I think there is w laugh to reverseon handling, and thought that was the last clip the R looked at in the booth. (I think a reversal for a foul on runnin into the keeper would be wrong.)
No that's a FIFA graphic that's entirely based on a technician with a computer/tablet in the VAR room. They have a various of selections that automatically generate what the VAR is looking at and what the on field decision is afterwards. It's automatically transmitted on screen and in stadium.
Thanks. I'm surprised it wasn't, then. We could all see that Marta got cleated! (not sure it was Marta, don't remember which Brazil player.)
Part of VAR's mandate is to review all possible red card situations. For some reason, they decided that it wasn't clear and obviously wrong to just go yellow there.