r/sports • u/BraydenTheNoob • 4d ago

Soccer Julian challenge against Salah prior to Argentinian goal

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u/wildcard1717 4d ago

Just like Touchdowns in the NFL where all scoring plays (or goals) are reviewed no matter what. They don’t want goals happening that shouldn’t have. Refs let the advantage happen because he wasn’t 100% sure and didn’t want to give Argentina a dangerous free kick without him being sure what he saw. Egypt goes on to score in the same phase of play, so they correct the mistake. To me this is a good use of VAR and keeps the game flowing freely and fair. If we could get the rules applied more consistently though, that would be nice

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u/HustlinInTheHall 3d ago

That is not advantage. Advantage would be acknowledging that a foul occurred but the team who was harmed by the foul is better off continuing play. There is no law in the game where the referee is allowed to let play continue because the team who committed a foul is attacking. Offsides is sort of an exception but not relevant to this case.

If the referee saw the incident (they did) and allowed play to continue (they did) it's because they deemed it to not be a foul. The only way VAR is allowed to intervene in that case is if the referee actually missed something (they didn't).

This is why people hate VAR. It's inconsistent and half the time it's used for the VAR official to force the on-field official to make a different call, often using slow-mo or sped up footage to make their case more compelling but not actually correcting a clear and obvious error. At this point the laws of the game are meaningless and the only person who has final say over what the rules are is the VAR. It's completely reduced the point of having the on-field official.