London, Might 16 (EFE).- Just a few weeks in the past, the Swedish league made the choice to get rid of VAR for the following season, the primary league in Europe to take action. Ange Postecoglou, the coach of Tottenham Hotspur, was requested about it and there was little doubt in his reply: “I’ll go to Sweden then.”

So the Australian mirrored the sensation of many followers relating to this expertise that started to be utilized within the 2019-2020 season and may very well be going through the final weeks of life in England .

Because the twenty golf equipment within the competitors will vote on June 6 whether or not they need to get rid of VAR for the 2024-2025 season. If two-thirds of the golf equipment, that is 14 of the 20, comply with scrap this expertise, the transfer put ahead by Wolverhampton Wanderers will go forward and the Premier League would be the first of the most important leagues to do away with it VAR.

A MATTER OF LIGHT AND OPENNESS

However why do golf equipment need to finish this period? The VAR, launched by the IFAB in 2016, got here to finish disputes in soccer and, in accordance with the Prime Minister’s personal information, the accuracy of disputed performs has elevated from 86% to 93% because of the intervention of the VAR. .

Nevertheless, this season there have been moments of rigidity that even expertise has not cured. The worst factor was the error made by the VAR within the duel within the first spherical between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, when a authorized objective by Luis Díaz was canceled for offside. A miscommunication between the VAR referee and his assistant within the sales space led to the choice and Colombia’s objective being disallowed.

That was not the one mistake and PGMOL, the Prime Minister’s referee affiliation, needed to apologize a number of occasions on this marketing campaign for the errors made.

On the primary day of the Premier League, André Onana punched Wolves striker Sasa Kalajdzic, in a play that ought to have led to a penalty, however was not flagged by the on-field referee or the VAR .

Within the Liverpool-Arsenal match in December, Howard Webb, director of PGMOL, admitted {that a} penalty ought to have been given for Liverpool by Martin Odegaard, whereas Nottingham Forest have already accused the referees a number of occasions that they did hurt, the final one, lower than a month in the past, in opposition to Everton: they had been denied three penalties and a panel of consultants appointed by the league admitted that at the very least one must be known as. Forest accused the Prime Minister of placing within the VAR a referee who’s a fan of Luton City, one of many groups with whom they had been combating for relegation.

Moreover, VAR has drawn the traces poorly on sure objectives, equivalent to final yr’s Brentford draw on the Emirates Stadium, and has been inconsistent in awarding performs equivalent to by balls -manuals, penalties and crimson playing cards. This identical Wednesday a penalty by Sofyan Amrabat on Anthony Gordon ought to have been awarded for going after a Newcastle participant, however the play was not even reviewed. And the kick that Jeremy Doku hit on Alexis McAllister within the chest in Liverpool-Manchester Metropolis didn’t finish in a penalty.

“I do not know what the VAR is for if it is to not right these errors,” Gordon himself famous after the sport.

DON’T GET IT, AGAIN

However it’s not simply poor selections which have led golf equipment like Wolves to scrap this expertise. The time spent in making every resolution can also be of nice significance, which results in longer video games, with countless concessions, as occurred this Wednesday in Brighton-Chelsea, the place there have been 9 extra minutes within the first half and eleven within the second, the rhythm chopping that this represents, the best fatigue, lack of feelings when marking objectives – because of non-use that may very well be – and the way little duty the referees tackle, with the assistance of the VAR.

The latter is definitely seen in competitions such because the League Cup, which don’t introduce VAR into the semi-finals, and the place referees are much less inclined to make dangerous selections as a result of they may very well be uncovered on tv.

Whereas they wait to search out out what every main membership will vote for on June 6, followers have already proven their rejection of this expertise in all of the surveys offered to them.

A survey carried out final summer time by the FSA, the physique that appears after the pursuits of British soccer followers, revealed that 63% of respondents had been in opposition to VAR, which is totally different from 74% who wished to introduce this expertise in 2017.

Solely 5.5% of respondents mentioned their expertise with VAR has been good, whereas 92% agree that selections take too lengthy to make.

Manuel Sanchez Gomez

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