The Women’s World Cup was plunged into momentary chaos after a referee introduced the fallacious determination after a VAR assessment.
Spain had put in a very good exhibiting as they beat Zambia 5-0 at Eden Park in New Zealand.
However, probably the most intriguing second got here from referee Oh-Hyeon Jeong whereas there was a VAR verify on Jennifer Hermoso’s objective in seventieth minute.
Hermoso had already netted earlier within the recreation however her second was initially dominated out as Olga Carmona was flagged offside within the build-up to the objective.
After the prolonged verify, it appeared that the Spaniard could be allowed the objective till Oh-Hyeon Jeong appeared to stay along with her authentic determination.
The official introduced that the choice was “no goal!”, which was then met with boos from the group.
This then noticed the referee backtrack and say: “No, wait… no offside – Goal!”But for a second the Spanish workforce had been left confused because of the dodgy announcement earlier than realising that the objective had been given.
During the Women’s World Cup historical past was made as referees are asserting VAR choices to the spectators within the stadium via a microphone.
It is the primary time that this has been executed at a senior worldwide event.
And it has no been easy crusing.
New Zealand had been sufferer to a poor determination that dominated out an equaliser of their shock defeat to the Philippines. Jacqui Hand was dominated offside in a decent name.
Fans have been left annoyed by the VAR format with many complaining that pronouncing the choice earlier than the reason is futile given the cheers drown out the ref.
Others have bemoaned the usual of umpiring given what number of choices – significantly penalties – have needed to be overturned.
From The Sun
6:45AM I DON’T HATE MESSI
Argentina’s Women’s World Cup striker Yamila Rodriguez has defended having a tattoo of Cristiano Ronaldo on her leg, saying: “I don’t hate Messi.”
The 25-year-old confronted flak on social media from followers again residence after they noticed the ink on her left shin of Portugal’s Ronaldo — the good rival of Argentina captain Lionel Messi.
“Please, enough, I’m not doing well. At what point did I say I’m anti-Messi?” Rodriguez wrote on social media in response.
“Messi is our great captain in the national team, but the fact that I say that my inspiration and my idol is CR7 (Ronaldo) does not mean that I hate Messi.
“Enough, it’s tiring and it hurts.”
Rodriguez, who got here on as an alternative in Monday’s 1-0 World Cup defeat to Italy, has quite a few different tattoos, together with one in every of Argentina legend Diego Maradona.
Originally revealed as FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 schedule, teams, outcomes: VAR farce as FIFA trial goes fallacious
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
