Egypt goal ruled out vs Argentina

The contact is probably enough for the officials to justify the decision, but the issue is that the standard does not feel consistent. If that is going to be the threshold, then it needs to be applied much more evenly across similar incidents.
 
This is exactly why people hate VAR because one minute you are watching a brilliant counter and thinking fair play that is a great move and then suddenly some tiny bit of contact from ages earlier gets pulled back and the whole thing is dead and everyone is sat there wondering what the point of any of it is if the same sort of thing gets ignored in one match and punished in another and then the commentators just talk in circles like it is all perfectly fine when it clearly winds everybody up and makes the game feel completely random
 
The frustrating part is not even the decision itself, it is the pattern that comes with it. If the officials are going to punish every soft touch, then fine, but you cannot let similar incidents go in one game and then suddenly become hyper strict when Argentina are involved. It makes the whole thing feel like a moving target and people are going to keep calling it out because at this point it looks ridiculous and I am so tired of watching the same nonsense
 
I was in the pub with a mate and we had the game on in the corner and the whole room was buzzing because Egypt had broken so well and then the replay comes on and everyone starts arguing over whether that was even a foul and the bloke behind the bar is shouting that VAR has ruined football again and honestly it turned into one of those proper football pub moments where nobody agrees and half the room is laughing and the other half is raging and by the end we were all just staring at the screen in disbelief because it felt like the goal had been ripped away for no reason
 
There is a decent argument that the contact meets the threshold for a foul, so the officials have a basis for the call. But the broader complaint is fair too, because people have seen similar situations handled very differently and that erodes trust in VAR.
 
I am not even supporting either side and I still felt annoyed watching that because the move was so good and then it just gets chopped off and everyone starts arguing about the same old VAR nonsense again and it honestly makes me want to switch the telly off sometimes
 
You can make a case that the officials were within their rights to disallow it, but that is not really the point anymore because every time Argentina are involved people already expect the call to go their way and then when something like this happens it just pours petrol on the fire and everyone loses their heads over it and I cannot blame them because the whole thing feels so predictable now and it is getting beyond a joke
 
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