England a man down.
Now that’s a legitimate red card.
Right. He was facing the player.
Why no card for that one?
Yes I have bias...but he contacted the ball first and the leg only raised because the ball went under his leg - imo there was no intent to raise the studs high.
I think the use of VAR is going to change after this WC. VAR wasn’t intended to review a motion down to a single (worst looking) frame to determine red cards.
Like the USA red card, two players jump up for a ball, their feet have to come down, neither looking at their feet, the USA players foot falling on the ankle of the other player. Boiling it down to a single frame, resulting in a red card, removing all the context of the motion, and play in question, is not the intended use of VAR (which was offsides, where a single frame can be determinant).
Otherwise, this will just devolve to using VAR for every foul - heck, even those not called in real time. Each team will complain about the severity of calls being inconsistent.