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The biggest controversy in the World Cup final: Why did France get the penalty

4hw.com.cn: the 2018 World Cup has come to an end, but the dispute about the final of the world cup has become a hot topic. What's the biggest dispute about the final of the world cup?

France beat Croatia 4-2 to win the world cup, but the biggest topic of the final was TV referee var.

France's key penalty over the score was a 'change of judgment' by var. In the first time after the incident, Argentine referee Pitana didn't have a clear penalty, but in the protest of the French players and the advice of the video colleagues on the sidelines, he decided to watch the video playback, and after hesitating to weigh nearly one minute, he turned his finger to the penalty spot.

Replays of the video show that the ball did hit Croatian player pericic, but whether the handball is equal to a penalty has caused great controversy. England's legendary striker Alan Shearer thinks' it's not a penalty ', Rio Ferdinand also thinks' the penalty is bad', while Ian Herbert of the Daily Mail says: 'penalty and VaR will definitely lead to a huge debate, and pelissic's goal will not be avoided'.

The old Englishman thinks it's not a penalty. There's a reason. This handball is not a chance for France. Pelissic didn't try to block it. He just had his arm there and couldn't hide. This is a purely accidental 'slight' event. If the referee ignores it, it will make the game more natural. Ignoring this small handball accident is more in line with the principle of letting the team's performance on the field decide the outcome. The discussion caused by it is certainly smaller than now. But the reality is that the referee and VaR seized it together, and thus completely changed the trend of a World Cup final, that is to say, a small accident has become the most critical turning point, and it is likely to determine who the champion belongs to (from the result), which is somewhat uncomfortable.

The penalty brought by VAR changes the game trend

Strictly speaking, the ball var penalty, is in line with the rules, corrected a referee naked eye 'Miss'. But why is there any controversy? Because the biggest problem of VaR is not that it was judged wrong this time, but that its use standard is unknown. The original intention of introducing VaR is to put an end to the wrong judgment of "human flesh" at the critical moment and to pursue the fair play as much as possible. From this competition, the accuracy rate of VaR judgment is as high as 99.3%. As long as it is judged, it is basically OK. Unfortunately, when to use VaR is the biggest problem.

Why not use VaR to correct glitzman's diving?

Take this field as an example, the first goal of France came from glitzman's diving. Why didn't the referee look at VaR to correct this penalty and blow off the French goal? Because he may think that a free kick in the front field is not 'key', and it's not worth inviting var out, but the ball is biased in, and this penalty has never been key. It can be said that the football field is changing, VAR can not cover all human flesh mistakes, otherwise every dispute ball will watch video, this game is too fragmented, but it is possible that any inconspicuous dispute ball will become a key turning point & hellip; & hellip; This is the most fatal defect of VaR: when to use it is ultimately decided by people, which still can not avoid the dispute of catching thief a and letting thief B go, just like glitzman's "diving" which was missed by the referee and later proved to be very critical.

Partial justice and overall injustice

Therefore, the biggest controversy in this world cup final is that France benefited from the use of VaR, but Croatia suffered from the use of VaR in time, and the fairness is still not guaranteed. VaR is impeccable in that single penalty, but on the whole, the objective effect it creates is that one side has been biased. In this world cup, there are 21 penalty kicks (the last one was 13), up to 10 of which are var assisted. However, if you consider some occasions where VaR is used but not used, such as Brazil's suspected penalty kicks to Switzerland once or twice, you can't deny that the world cup penalty after VaR is introduced has the embarrassment of partial fairness and global debt, and some penalty errors are less, but With more issues of overall fairness, the impression of human interference and even impact on the game is more serious, but the controversy is even greater.