With 4 factors in two matches, Ghana did the toughest in Group L of the 2026 World Cup. However Carlos Queiroz retains the refereeing of the match towards England in his throat (0-0). The Black Stars coach most popular to be ironic in a press convention when, fairly incomprehensibly, the VAR didn’t name the referee for the intervention of Ezri Konsa on the knee of Prince Adu, unbalanced whereas he was dealing with Jordan Pickford.
“VAR works? I’ve doubts, he mentioned. The English are fortunate, very fortunate, that the VAR has gone for a espresso. It was an apparent penalty. » The ex-captain of the Three Lions Wayne Rooney admitted on the BBC that Ghana ought to have benefited from a penalty. So did former referee Darren Cann. However what might have occurred?
The Messi-Mandi controversy
Based mostly in Miami, the referees are entitled to a every day briefing/debriefing, supported by photos, supervised by their massive boss, Pierluigi Collina. “As I informed you all earlier than, have the braveness to decide,” Massimo Busacca slipped to themdirector of the FIFA Refereeing sub-division, final week. And added: “Thank God we had somebody in Dallas. » The Texan capital hosts the worldwide broadcast heart, the place the video referees are situated.
In order that’s the place all of it occurs: a wall lined with screens, buttons galore, and the mission to not let something slip by. The beginning of the match, nonetheless, highlighted holes within the racket. England-Ghana bought folks speaking… and what concerning the assembly between Argentina and Algeria.
On the half hour mark, Lionel Messi miraculously averted the purple card for a horrible sole on the calf of Aïssa Mandi. An involuntary gesture, however very harmful… which didn’t provoke the intervention of the VAR. It is sufficient to boost an eyebrow. The Algerian Federation has additionally expressed its dissatisfaction with the FIFA.
Fewer fouls known as
No intervention both throughout Norway-Senegal, when David Møller Wolfe elbowed Idrissa Gueye within the space, nor on the hand of the Scotsman Grant Hanley in his space towards Haiti… and even when she intervenes, as throughout the fault however obvious of Mané on Mbappé throughout France-Senegal, it isn’t adopted by the central referee.
So sure, the “truck staff” has loads to handle with the enlargement of the scope of motion of VAR: video referees can now intervene on a second yellow card, if the central referee sends a card to the flawed participant, and even when a nook is given wrongly. However nonetheless…
A big a part of the reason, past particular person interpretation, might be to be discovered on the aspect of FIFA. Over the primary twelve days of competitors, the typical fouls per match was 22 – in comparison with 27 in Qatar. The women and men in black have been ordered to let more playto advertise the rhythm of the match, and due to this fact to indicate soccer in a greater mild. Even when it means intervening much less.
The BBC saved the accounts: after the primary 40 matches of the match, VAR had intervened 13 instances and the central referee was known as to take a look at his small display screen solely six instances. Statistics just like these recorded in Premier League. We’ll must get used to it.
