If Struijk had been sent off by referee Bramall it would have been a poor decision. That it came via a VAR intervention is much worse.<\/p>\n
Red cards for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity via video review are rare, simply because there are so many subjective considerations.<\/p>\n
Last season, for instance, there were three – for Liverpool<\/a>‘s Dominik Szoboszlai, Crystal Palace<\/a>‘s Maxence Lacroix and Bournemouth<\/a>‘s Marcos Senesi (though this was wrongly rejected at the monitor).<\/p>\n There was far too much doubt that Isidor would get to the ball before Bart Verbruggen. That means it was a possible goalscoring opportunity rather than obvious.<\/p>\n With such a high bar on VAR in the Premier League, Bramall should not have been sent to the monitor.<\/p>\n Perhaps when sent to the screen, his judgement was clouded because he did not give a foul. But it was the kind of situation where the referee should be rejecting the advice of the VAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Struijk had been sent off by referee Bramall it would have been a poor decision. That it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-927731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}