{"id":3019,"date":"2021-07-02T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T21:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:12:51","slug":"quarter-final-where-are-the-vars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/2021\/07\/02\/quarter-final-where-are-the-vars\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter Final &#8211; where are the VAR&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The straight red card in the 78th minute to Swiss Midfielder Freuler by the english referee &#8220;Oliver&#8221; changed the flow of the game completely. Based on the UEFA VAR-rules, the VAR actually has the option to change Yellow to Red &#8211; that would have been the better option in my opinion. The VIDEO-VAR still could have decided &#8216;red&#8217; after the main referee shows a yellow for the defensive foul, which was not given from my perspective. It was a clear &#8216;foul&#8217; but not against the player as it was a regular fight for the ball.   <\/p>\n<p>Why aren&#8217;t the Video referees not able to tune in and make the necessary changes? The very first decision against <strong>Switzerland<\/strong> in history was by the Video-VAR &#8211; now when you <strong>need &#8217;em<\/strong> &#8211; they are not showing up.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the referee will enjoy his lifelong vacation at the beaches in Spain. <\/p>\n<p>Playing 10 against 12 isn&#8217;t fun anymore.<\/p>\n<p>If you disagree &#8211; please comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The straight red card in the 78th minute to Swiss Midfielder Freuler by the english referee &#8220;Oliver&#8221; changed the flow of the game completely. Based on the UEFA VAR-rules, the VAR actually has the option to change Yellow to Red &#8211; that would have been the better option in my opinion. The VIDEO-VAR still could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-com","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3028,"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goal4.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}