Huddersfield Town

FT

0 : 2

vs

HT 0 : 1

Manchester United

lol those lines, incredible XD

I think what can be confusing are those marks from the grass mowing... they are not necessarily perfectly in line with the short side. While the lines from VAR tries to take into account the depth of the picture... and the angle from which the situation is observed is also important. However the lines are still drawn in a funny way

Don't look at the grass mowing lines, just look at the 18 yrd box line... those VAR lines are totally not parallel to it. Ultimately, I agree with the decision since Mata is just slightly offside but the optics are dreadful with the VAR lines. If you're going to do something as blatantly wrong and poorly drawn, you may as well not show anything.

There are two different photos which show the Huddersfield player in 2 different positions. The black line in Serans photo is not parallel to 18 yard box. Here the photo looks like Mata is offside. If the Camera was in-line, I think he's level. If not, its millimeters. In that case VAR - Benefit of doubt to the attacking team.

Looks like all Citeh goals should be offside then. XD carry on.

Dude, Pogba is ill.

no i mean another Game

Carrick is retiring brah

True, and people should stop giving sticks to Lukaku as well, the guy has been doing very well, 21 goals and 6 assists on February is impressive!

Kinda agree but Smalling knows mister Bailly is back so this is why he did well. Btw that's just Huddersfiel not Tott' or City !

About lukaku , i agree. He's doing really good and still young. People expect like if he's kinda prime age striker who had loads of experience. He is still learnning and so far doing good.

I think they're going to try VAR in La Liga, too, to see if Spanish culture can handle it? I mean, Spain still refuses to use goal-line technology, for instance. Maybe their culture just can't handle it.

Wasn't the German VAR system coming under fire too, from fans, after the head of the VAR system in the Bundesliga was fired for corruption? I guess German culture is having some trouble handling it.

Personally, I think VAR is problematic, but could be useful regardless. It's the sort of thing which plays well in sports like the NFL or NBA, but for a free-flowing organic sport like football it kinda disrupts the game by turning refereeing decisions into a committee. Maybe at current levels of organization, at least.

If they can avoid that, the 'culture' should handle it just fine.

@Lodatz

Goal-line tech/offside decisions are not up to interpretation. They are either one way or the other. If the English or Spanish soccer culture cannot adapt to those decisions, then they sure as hell won't be able to adapt to what would come after, which is pens/red cards, which are still decisions MADE BY A HUMAN, just with the assistance of every angle possible and in slow-mo.

But aside from that, if Spain can't see the benefit of goal-line tech, that's just blind imo. This offside by Mata was a good one to get the conversation in England going as well, because that's the reality. I have no idea why they threw those convoluted lines up on the broadcast, that's where most of the shit has come from, the actual lines are posted in the comments here by a different user.