Soccer (I mean football!) newbie here. I’m guessing it’s kind of like a close offsides that gets missed in hockey. If the defense immediately steals the puck and clears the zone, nobody cares about the offsides or asks for a review.
If, OTOH, they score, then that’s a horse of a different color.
Treasonable offence!!
One interesting perspective I’ve seen people talk about online is that it feels extra bad for how this Egypt goal was called back because they were essentially punished for being too efficient in their attack. Had they completed a few more passes in the midfield and then scored, it almost certainly would have stood.
Yet another of those grey areas in football where adding a video check just makes things even murkier. That’s the problem with the sport - so much room for interpretation and subjectivity. And I love it. It’s just that VAR really hasn’t worked in terms of taking the uncertainty away.
VAR it’s not a good idea, today it helped us, but tomorrow it will bite us in the ass, the net effect is negative for the sport, you can no longer celebrate a goal the moment it’s scored.
That was a ball perfect for Gregor Kobel, he would save a shot like that in 99/100 atempts.
I disagree generally in that I think VAR has shown itself to be very useful at getting more calls correct than strictly human refereeing, which in my mind has always had a bit of a whim of the referee feel to it (sometimes good, often bad). I do agree that the delay to getting things right needs to be improved, though.
IMHO, either call the foul before the goal is scored or forget it, if you can improve the tech so it does so, good, if not tough luck.
I don’t think Canada has enough world class stadiums, to be honest.
It’s genunely odd how many times in the tournament an upstart team from Africa or some other unlikely place, a non traditional contender, has held a lead most of the game only for a traditional contender to pull a remarkable late game rally.
But football would be a lot of fun if played on hockey stadiums. The Zambonis would have to work hard during the even more superfluous hydration break, I’ll grant you that. But it would still be hilarious.
Yes it’s been a common pattern. I guess it just shows how much pressure there is in the dying minutes of a big game and how the big teams are so much better at handling the pressure. I think it also helps explain why a handful of teams have historically dominated the last couple of stages of the World Cup.
But credit to the underdogs for providing some wonderful games and it probably supports the decision to expand the field to 48.
Sending me to The Tower may be a better option for me though .
On the subject of losing one’s head it was good that Argentina didn’t in this game and avoided a frustrated melt down .
Are you insinuating that we Argentines put more importance than we should on this game? if so, you are totally right.
Insinuate ? Nope definitely not insinuating. 
0-0 at half time swiss., colom..
Go Colombia!, we need a guaranteed South American team in semis!
I’ve received the following order in the Argentinian blog where I also comment:
“FRODO, PARA LOS CUARTOS TE ME COMPRAS 40 KILOS DE HIELO, LLENAS LA BAÑERA CON AGUA FRIA, PONES EL HIELOS Y TE ME BAÑAS AHI, EH”
“FRODO FOR THE QUARTER FINALS YOU BUY ME 40 KILOS OF ICE, FILL THE BATHTUB WITH COLD WATER, PUT THE ICE INSIDE AND AND TAKE YOUR BATH THERE FOR ME, EH”
Lucho fan reporting in here & rooting for Colombia.
The “EH” is quite compelling. You better do it. It will not have happened without pictures.
