In the third round of the Premier League, Burnley was defeated by Manchester United 2-3 in stoppage penalty. After the game, Burnley coach Scott Parker expressed dissatisfaction with the VAR penalty in an interview. "This is difficult. My under...
In the third round of the Premier League, Burnley was defeated by Manchester United 2-3 in stoppage penalty. After the game, Burnley coach Scott Parker expressed dissatisfaction with the VAR penalty in an interview.
"This is difficult. My understanding is that the referee should always use the penalty on the court. If the judgment needs to be changed, then there must be very clear and obvious evidence. I think Amalad made good use of this. I am not saying that he did not pull, that did happen. In fact, I think Jayton was first pulled by Amalad, but he gave him a little space, and then Jayton obviously pulled his jersey. But the referee did not give a penalty, and the lineman was only ten meters away from the site of the incident. In the end, a person in the monitoring room a hundred miles away determined that this was an obvious misjudgment by the referee and awarded a penalty."
And this game was not the only one of the judgments that were not good for Burnley, and Foster's goal was also invalid due to offside in a slight margin. However, judging from the official VAR imaging, it is difficult to tell which part of Foster's body is offside.
Parker said: "The game is moving in this direction, and it will be one of the most boring games. We may only need a few months or a year to celebrate the goal again. I am standing on the sidelines and you score a goal, and countless thoughts will flash in my mind, check the playback, see what happened in the first three minutes of the goal, whether it is offside? Did he step on someone's foot two minutes ago? We now need to take out the computer and be accurate to millimeters to check if it is offside."
"The linebacker and referee are becoming redundant, and every part of the game is being tried repeatedly. We live in a world that pursues perfection, aren't we? Everyone desires perfection, and social media drives that. I think people also want football games to achieve this perfection, but I don't agree with this view, but the reality is."
Asked if VAR could lead to football because of ruining the game. When losing popularity, Parker said: "I don't know what other coaches think, but you see that when VAR was first introduced four or five years ago, I mentioned this issue. Ultimately, this is determined by the world we are in now. This world pursues perfection, whether it's the beauty filter on the phone or something else, everyone wants perfection in life, and they want the game to be perfect,"
"It's a very fast-paced game, with the body fighting fiercely, and the players need to make decisions in milliseconds. Now we can replay the slow motion, carefully analyze each moment, and see if the player step on the opponent's toes. This is the trend of the game now, and sometimes it's even more dramatic. The referee will also come in and explain their decisions to let everyone understand why it is so. The game becomes intermittent, which may affect the pace of the game and weaken the passion of the game because you never know what will happen next."
