It doesn't take a soccer expert to see that the process is flawed..... at least hard to understand. Just wish Trump’s call hadn't muddied the waters. The result maybe would have been the same without it. That's pure conjecture at this point.
If Balogun's name was Messi.... the VAR would not have been called for in the first place.. I don't see this as a "two wrongs" issue.
From my uneducated pov, the red card was a bad call but it was called. And overturning it after the fact, in favor of the home team named USA, too eye raising.
Do red cards get overruled? If they did it that night via a normal review, it would pass the stink test a little easier for me. Do the refs have final call during the game, or is it reviewed? They sure took a long enough time to make the call.
And you mentioning that Messi never gets that call makes it 3 wrongs. Didnt the announcers even compare tape of a recent Messi play that was very similar as they discussed it in real time and agreed it was a yellow card? But all sports share that one with subjective calls.
The penalty for a red card makes me think it would only be called for a real, real bad infraction. But I guess I am wrong. And getting a free kick in the recent game won 1-0 on that free kick, I find it hard to think anyone sees that as fitting punishment for that foul. Wrong again?
Maybe these issues come up so rarely that it is like me comparing it to when our hoops team was cheated out of the gold in the 68 olympics, but I get the feeling it isnt so rare. This is the first time I bothered watching much World Cup, and I have seen 2 critical calls that have huge penalties being blown.
No wonder they need moats around the stadiums in South America lol.
