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I agree, but the ref is still part of the VAR system. It’s funny because the old story of “wrong desisions evening themselves out” would have actually lead to a fair result. A prime example of the “well it’s better to get more desisions correct” being void.
Without VAR the refs calls would have gave the game the fair and correct result.
There's no point us getting in a pissing contest every time there's a less than perfect VAR game. For the odd debatable one that VAR is not getting varying degrees of right, (even both the handballs, though I don't agree with them, were balls hitting hands, and on some level, no matter how tenuous, are technically debatable) it is correcting far more wrongs.
I don't agree with some of the applications, but the bottom line is, most of what it's still not getting 100% right is just an extension of existing problems - such as, what actually constitutes a fair call for hand ball - that aren't new problems being created by VAR, just existing issues that need to be clarified better, and the ultimate decisions are still being left to a referee.
Even tonight, it got most important stuff right, Ronaldo's was a pen, and look at the Spain equaliser, the Lino gave that as offside, VAR correctly awarded the goal, imagine if that had cost Spain a place in the knock-outs?