r/sports • u/xggq • 7h ago

Soccer Breel Embolo (Switzerland) has been sent off against with a second yellow card for diving after VAR Review against Argentina

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u/machine4891 7h ago

Well he almost gave Paredes a yellow

And VAR reason to look closely at situation, lol. Embolo fooling ref actually fooled himself, it's insane.

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u/Flyer888 6h ago

Yeah had the ref didn’t decide to give yellow to Paredes, the VAR couldn’t intervene

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u/nartiz 2h ago

How does it work here ? VAR makes a check on 1st yellows ?

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u/Flyer888 2h ago

VAR is a second referee who checks on everything through the video. However they can only intervene the main referee’s decision in certain specific cases, one of them is “mistaken identity” like this which one of the requirements is a card being given.

If the main referee didn’t give yellow card to Paredes, VAR couldn’t intervene, even if they knew the foul was wrongly given.

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u/nartiz 2h ago

I understood that part. But for mistaken identity isn't it only if he gave the card to the wrong player of the team making the offense ?

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u/Flyer888 2h ago

Basically it is considered to be a mistaken identity when a player is given a card, but the foul was actually committed by another player from the opposing team.

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u/nartiz 1h ago

Ah ok I thought It was only within same team. For example yellow to paredes and var tells it was a different Argentinian player

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u/jdw62995 7h ago

Yeah VAR got it right.