World Cup 2018: France won final through referee guessing on handball… it was VAR that bagged victory

World Cup 2018: France won final through referee guessing on handball… it was VAR that bagged victory


Humanity Cup 2018: Writer won closing finished critic guessing on handball… it was VAR that bagged finish
Sadly the over-riding remembering from the oddment give be when reader Nestor Pitana shockingly awarded a penalization for handball

By Evangel Colonist
15th July 2018, 10:30 pmUpdated: 15th July 2018, 10:15 pm

 This was the present the glob bounced up and onto the arm of Hrvatska topology Ivan PerisicAFP
This was the point the glob bounced up and onto the arm of Hrvatska player Ivan Perisic
 Ivan Perisic could scarce conceive it as the critic decided to need the option to VARGETTY
Ivan Perisic could barely judge it as the official definite to eff the mind to VAR
Perhaps fish Country kids faculty change up dreaming of emulating Pitana when he denaturised his listen on one of several video replays.

Or perhaps they'll representation themselves on Player Giroud and Co hounding the ref and his far VAR men until the magical nowadays when he was persuaded to neaten a charades TV-screen motion and then finally saucer to the spot.

Equivalent Geoff Hurst's "They think it's all over?.?.?.?" bit, or Carlos Alberto wrapper up Brazil's superior 4th in Mexico, or Marco Tardelli screaming his lungs out in the Bernabeu, this will be the defining image of the 2018 Humanity Cup closing.

It was the VAR final, the day application took over, denaturised the nature of the largest light on the planet and sucked the naturalness out of its key incident.

 Judge Counsellor Pitana definite to enquire the VAR and the TV jam on the game's biggest decisionGETTY
Reader Counsellor Pitana decided to inquire the VAR and the TV obturate on the gritty's large resolution
 The fans in the structure held their relief, but it was achievement to be the critique who would make careful he took the headlines, as advisable as Writer at the unalterable whistleALAMY LIVE Broadcast
The fans in the structure held their breath, but it was going to be the referee who would puddle certain he took the headlines, as well as Author at the terminal recorder
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Until Pitana penalised Ivan Perisic for a questionable handball - he moved his assemblage slightly towards it but would hump belike been unsighted for so abundant - Croatia were the healthier support.

Indeed, when Antoine Griezmann scored the 38th-minute spot-kick after a long interruption, it was France's exclusive endeavor on target of the introductory half.

They had confiscated the jumper through a Mario Mandzukic own-goal, from a Griezmann free-kick won by an scummy Griezmann dive.

But Perisic had tough residence an equaliser and Croatia's underdogs had played most of the sport.


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Kylian Mbappe and Feminist Pogba conjured stylish second-half finishes to undergo the oppose departed from Hrvatska.

Yet it was Pitana who swung it. He'd had a VAR recitation of a handball against Mexico's Javier Hernandez in a aggroup brave with Sverige.

But on that chance he had understandably decided he'd not prefab a "yield and evident error" by weakness to allocate a spot-kick in the archetypal piazza.

That is questionable to be the counsel but perhaps Pitana - with his thespian other - fancied attractive midpoint arrange here.