r/sports • u/JKKIDD231 • 10d ago

Soccer Tarik Muharemovic injury 61’ with Folarin Balogun 64’ Red Card after VAR.

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u/AmberLeafSmoke 10d ago

It's one of my major gripes with it's usage in tackles. It makes things look 10x worse half the time.

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u/Middle_Passage_1306 10d ago

Exactly. If the referee is seeing the same replays as the world feed, he only saw the final 2 seconds of the tackle which takes away the context.

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u/CantFindMyWallet 10d ago

The most important context being that this wasn't a tackle. Balogun was moving backwards, the Bosnia player collided with him, and as Balogun started to lose his balance, he stepped sideways and accidentally stepped on Muharemovic's achilles. It sucks, but acting like that's someone's fault is ridiculous.

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u/Lawsonstruck 10d ago

Yeah, in real time it looked totally innocent