Match #38 Wales : Denmark Saturday, 26 June 2021 18:00 local time (12:00 EDT) Amsterdam Referee: Daniel Siebert (GER) AR1: Jan Seidel (GER) AR2: Rafael Foltyn (GER) Fourth Official: Ovidiu Haţegan (ROU) Video Assistant Referee: Bastian Dankert (GER) AVAR 1: Christian Dingert (GER) AVAR 2: Christian Gittelmann (GER) AVAR 3: Marco Fritz (GER)
A replay at 12’ just suggested VAR might have missed a clear handball a minute or two earlier. But no one said anything—on field or in commentary. Anyone else see that?
I saw the replay, though missed where the original incident occurred. Obviously worth at least a check.
Rewinding it was at about the 10:30 mark. Not much of a reaction from Wales. Replay shown at about 11:45.
So do video officials run the same gantlet as CRs, in terms of today's match impacting tomorrow's assignment...or otherwise?
Yes. It’s probably worth discussing in the larger assignment thread but Rosetti implied yesterday there were three missed OFRs in the first round. It appears one of those VARs then only worked as an AVAR and the others, if we can properly guess the missed interventions, have not yet been assigned as VAR this round.
None. I’m definitely open to the possibility this one angle is an optical illusion. Need another angle at the right time.
I mean yeah, on field or off, it's a good thing the officials don't make as many mistakes as the players!
*squints* Doesn't that deflect off of Wales #11? And then I'm not sure if that hits the extended arm afterwards or not...
Yes. Took me a second but I think that’s possible and, well, probably likely given the lack of intervention.
For what it’s worth, a soccer app is saying Bale blocked his own teams shot twice around that same time.
I'm questioning what the APP was there. Does it reset in that botched clearance? That was more than a block or deflection.
Do you think they went all the way back to the potential foul in the review? Or as Clatts said, there were 5 passages of play. Boy, that’s a foul.
Yeah, there's language that addresses this that I don't have off the top of my head. Will try to find. But the big question is whether or not the alleged foul could be checked relative to that clearance. The fact that there was a check at all indicates the VAR team did not feel the APP had reset. Because if the APP had reset you can't even check the boundary decision. And if the boundary decision was checked, then it's really hard to say the alleged foul couldn't be. Ultimately, I think it's more a foul than it's not and it's usually called, but the bar for APP VAR fouls in UEFA (and Germany, for that matter) has been quite high, just like it was at WC18. Not surprised at all there was no review. Whether or not there should have been is more of a philosophical one than a practical one here, I think.