World Cup: Group F: Sweden vs. South Korea, 6/18/2018

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Good VAR call.

 

[Jussi]

Good call.

 

[hatterson]

Soccer has replays for penalties?

In some leagues. In England they were testing it out in the FA cup. The World Cup has it. CL has said no for the next season at least.

 

[Eisen]

Soccer has replays for penalties?

It's new in this tournament.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Can always rely on Granqvist!

 

[Freudian]

It's going to take a long time to get used to VAR. In a way it's of course correct that they want to get game deciding events right, but it still rubs me wrong to break the flow of the game with reviews.

 

[KrejciMVP]

Soccer has replays for penalties?

it takes getting used to, they just called it the world cup of pk's on tv

 

[Eisen]

Not the penalty. Claesson didn't deserve that yellow.

Oh, I didn't see that card.

 

[hatterson]

Yay a goal

 

[PanniniClaus]

Claesson's yellow was well deserved. Penalty was a completely unnecessary challenge...if Claesson gets that ball he still is not in a great shooting position.

The scoreline is deserved...Korea are pitiful

 

[Legionnaire]

You barely got touched. Get up dude. lol.

 

[Alex Jones]

Game off. f*** this

 

[Bakayoko Ono]

Must've been shocking for Swedish fans to go from Ibra to guys like Toivonen and Berg.

Korea won't score a goal in this tournament.

 

[Alklha]

It's going to take a long time to get used to VAR. In a way it's of course correct that they want to get game deciding events right, but it still rubs me wrong to break the flow of the game with reviews.

It's also going to take time because the current implementation is a joke.

That was deemed "clear and obvious", why wasn't the second Argentina penalty incident reviewed? There isn't any consistency in what is reviewed and what isn't.

Then you have the offside situation where linesmen have been told not to call close offsides and let VAR deal with it. So a close offside that the linesman thinks is offside, doesn't flag, ball goes out for a corner and the attacking team score from that. Not reviewable and a direct consequence of silly implementation.

 

[Eisen]

It's also going to take time because the current implementation is a joke.

That was deemed "clear and obvious", why wasn't the second Argentina penalty incident reviewed? There isn't any consistency in what is reviewed and what isn't.

Then you have the offside situation where linesmen have been told not to call close offsides and let VAR deal with it. So a close offside that the linesman thinks is offside, doesn't flag, ball goes out for a corner and the attacking team score from that. Not reviewable and a direct consequence of silly implementation.

I actually like that they don't call close offside. The offside trap is unreliable anyway and it gives an advantage to the attacker, which was FIFA policy for a long time but never called that way.

 

[Alex Jones]

Sweden are not good, but Holy f***

 

[Natey]

Great game. Foul every 17 seconds so the ref doesn't get criticized for not using VAR every play!!

 

[hatterson]

It's also going to take time because the current implementation is a joke.

That was deemed "clear and obvious", why wasn't the second Argentina penalty incident reviewed? There isn't any consistency in what is reviewed and what isn't.

Then you have the offside situation where linesmen have been told not to call close offsides and let VAR deal with it. So a close offside that the linesman thinks is offside, doesn't flag, ball goes out for a corner and the attacking team score from that. Not reviewable and a direct consequence of silly implementation.

I think the offside situation is the biggest issue with it.

I fully support having linesmen leave their flags down unless they're certain it was offside, but only you actually review each play. It shouldn't take more than 10-15 seconds after the play to be able to determine if it actually was offside or not, have a couple guys in the booth who entire job is monitoring offside. If it's offside, only stop the play if the attacking team still has some kind of advantage (corner, maintained possession, etc.) If the defending team has the ball, don't bother stopping it.

I don't recall the Argentina penalty claim from yesterday, so I'm not sure why it wasn't reviewed.

 

[Natey]

Sweden are not good, but Holy ****

Germany better not think the same way. If Sweden parks the bus and sneaks out a draw.... They're in big trouble.

 

[Alklha]

I actually like that they don't call close offside. The offside trap is unreliable anyway and it gives an advantage to the attacker, which was FIFA policy for a long time but never called that way.

I like it in the sense that you can't have a system that only takes goals away. They just need a system where the linesman can flag at the end of a play for offside if it doesn't lead to a goal. Teams getting attacking set pieces from incidents that a linesman thought was offside, told not to flag, it was offside and can't be reviewed? The entire thing is a bit half-baked at the moment.

 

[TP]

This game is brutal.


and this announcer keeps bring up how they beat Italy.. INFURIATING

 

[Eisen]

I like it in the sense that you can't have a system that only takes goals away. They just need a system where the linesman can flag at the end of a play for offside if it doesn't lead to a goal. Teams getting attacking set pieces from incidents that a linesman thought was offside, told not to flag, it was offside and can't be reviewed? The entire thing is a bit half-baked at the moment.

It is. It's still a fresh system and I'm sure there will be some tweaking.

 

[Burner Account]

3 points for Sweden here would be a nightmare start for Germany

 

[Natey]

That was a pretty bad call

 

[hatterson]

Son has been garbage today.