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Starting to be really angry with how it seems like the on field ref can just ignore the VAR.

Granquist for Sweden, dunno Germany. Müller?

It's not like a moral concept though. It's conditional on him staying there, which he has Yep. It runs from day one and until the day you leave, be that through being sold, released or at the end of the contract. The amount they get in loyalty bonus depends on how far into their contract they have come.

Man, I am nervous. The thing is we are not always the most disciplined defensively, and with those two on the pitch, and the likes of Higuain and Dybala to bring on ... well, it's going to be a bumpy ride. I am very hopeful though. A very strong possibility that a draw takes us through too, and so we don't have to go too gung-ho to try and win the game, so guess we'll see how it goes. Deinitely. No way Iceland will beat Croatia 2/3-0 Croatia will rest players, Iceland will be firing on all cylinders. Wouldn't put it past them. They're not very good though I mean, they're a scrappy and physical side and don't have much individual brilliance bar Gylfi. But they literally qualified ahead of Croatia in the qualifiers, so have no doubt they're able to beat a weakened Croatia side, especially as they beat a strong Croatia side in the qualifiers to qualify ahead of them.

Man, I am nervous. The thing is we are not always the most disciplined defensively, and with those two on the pitch, and the likes of Higuain and Dybala to bring on ... well, it's going to be a bumpy ride. I am very hopeful though. A very strong possibility that a draw takes us through too, and so we don't have to go too gung-ho to try and win the game, so guess we'll see how it goes. Deinitely. No way Iceland will beat Croatia 2/3-0 Croatia will rest players, Iceland will be firing on all cylinders. Wouldn't put it past them.

£10 on Sweden @ 7.80 for the lolz.

Seems like Kinnear was right about at least one thing.

Wish we signed players so we could be in for Lozano.

wat They literally won the one before this, what’s that guy on?

According to the studio over here the reason it didn’t go to VAR was that the on-field ref blew a free kick against Mitro. Still confused, as VAR surely can overturn that? If they can’t, VAR should get that power, IMO.

Horrible that this can happen when the VAR is available. The on field ref needs sacking and banned from the sport.

It's fucking shite. Its fans moaned about people not wanting to remove the talking points and human error from officiating decisions (like robotic perfection is somehow desirable) and yet this is miles worse. Don't give me that shit about how it will get better either. Agreed. It's bad enough a referee making a mistake in the heat of the moment without the benefit of replays from 20 different angles, but this is ten times worse. I understand there will always be contentious decisions that could go either way, but not something like this. Simply unacceptable. There’s been around two-three contentious decisions so far this WC. That’s almost infinitely better than usual. However, I agree the errors are much more unforgivable than usual due to the nature of VAR.

Iceland was definitely a pen today Not for me. A mistimed shielding of the ball. Soft as owt and that's before you get into the comparison with this howler just here. Guy kicked the Icelandic player straight in the leg. 100% penalty I didn't think it was a kick and it certainly didn't look intentional. You give a pen for things like that you may as well give five each way every game. The issue is it's now apparently up to whoever looks at monitors to decide the outcome of games at the highest level, it's completely ridiculous. They are actual refs, though. They’re not random TV viewers or pundits Has anybody actually checked who does it? May as well be a panel of baboons from the decisions they've come up with at times They are announced straight after the on field refs with a picture of them in the «bus». Haven’t googled their names, but according to commentators they’re normal refs from various leagues specifically trained to do VAR.

Iceland was definitely a pen today Not for me. A mistimed shielding of the ball. Soft as owt and that's before you get into the comparison with this howler just here. Guy kicked the Icelandic player straight in the leg. 100% penalty I didn't think it was a kick and it certainly didn't look intentional. You give a pen for things like that you may as well give five each way every game. The issue is it's now apparently up to whoever looks at monitors to decide the outcome of games at the highest level, it's completely ridiculous. They are actual refs, though. They’re not random TV viewers or pundits

Honestly one of the clearest, if not the clearest penalty this WC. Two men wrestling a guy down. A blind guy could call that.

Iceland was definitely a pen today Not for me. A mistimed shielding of the ball. Soft as owt and that's before you get into the comparison with this howler just here. Guy kicked the Icelandic player straight in the leg. 100% penalty

Given how many blatant holding pens they haven’t given they must be under instruction not to give them on VAR. Has to be something like that. Don’t understand why though, and they should be more open anout what they don’t use VAR for if so.

Give the VAR full power. Fuck the on field ref.

First time so far this WC I’ve been genuinely angry at VAR. Not because VAR is bad, but because how the fuck isn’t it used for something like that when you have VAR.

Ref blatantly hate Serbs.

How is that not a fucking penalty?

Serbs love cards, man. Horrible bet

GOOOALTROOOOVIIIIC

Nah, and he used to get annoyed with that suggestion when it was popular back in around 2010. Pretty sure his heritage is Argentinian and Italian as well. Catelonian and Italian, according to Wiki. And I mean, (not saying it’s not true, just a possible alternative) of course he’d have to act annoyed by that suggestion since Arentina already disliked him - if he suddenly went «Yeah, maybe I should have played for Spain» that wouldn’t come off very well

Kosovo could’ve had an amazing team if they had access to all «their» players, tbh.