[Steve_Seattle1]

I'm just guessing, but I've probably watched a lot more soccer than you have and that was NOT a play that normally gets a red card, or even a yellow card: two players were going for the ball and their feet got tangled. Stuff like that happens several times a game with either just a non-flag penalty or - at worst - a yellow card.

In the England-Norway game about a week later, the pony-tailed Norway star blatantly shoved an English player from behind and the player went down hard. There was a penalty, and it negated a Norway goal, but there was no yellow or red card.

[Texas Eagle]

Until the World Cup my dogs have probably watched more soccer than me. This play was kind of like a football player trying to tackle a receiver or running back with his shoulder but ends up hitting him with the crown of his helmet. Such fouls are usually reviewed and sometimes the official rules it worthy of ejection and sometimes he doesn’t. That’s what happened here. I don’t know if Falungong intentionally stomped on the guy’s ankle or not it looks like was trying to play the ball when he clearly had no chance of doing so because the other player was in between himself and the ball

[FamiliarFace]

I also think VAR is being used in ways that it wasn’t intended for.