⚽️ After watching these 5 games, I’m honestly a bit speechless—has VAR started to get a little too overreaching?

Back then, watching football was about tactics and technique. Now half the time you’re listening to what the referee picks up in their earpiece. In this tournament, a few controversial calls—each one has been pretty ridiculous. Let me just mention a few:

1️⃣ Argentina 3-2 Egypt

For Egypt’s goal, they all hugged together to celebrate—then VAR went back half a minute and disallowed it.

They said it was a foul involving trampling—OK, I’ll accept that. But what about the body contact right before Argentina’s winner? Why didn’t they check that? It’s not really a question of “bias” or not—it’s that the standard is inconsistent. It leaves people totally confused.

2️⃣ Portugal 2-1 Croatia

This one is really hard to swallow. Gvardiol scored at the very last moment to level the game—then it was ruled off.

The reason, somehow, was that a teammate’s strand of hair touched the ball, causing an offside… All three goals in the match were ruled out. The chip data is accurate, sure, but this kind of “hair-on-the-body” decision really dissolves the point of football itself.

3️⃣ France 1-0 Paraguay

This ref basically gave up. Paraguay played that dirty—13 fouls and not a single yellow card; France barely makes contact and it’s a yellow card every time. You don’t even need VAR to see how ridiculous that double standard is. In the end, getting sent home is also kind of “justice served.”

4️⃣ Argentina 3-2 Cape Verde

For Romero’s trampling incident, honestly, I was surprised he didn’t even get a card.

Then later, Messi’s quick restart—while the goalkeeper was still arranging the wall of defenders, the ball was already in the net. The rules allow quick restart, but combined with the earlier missed calls, this moment just feels like it isn’t playing by the rules.

5️⃣ Germany 2-1 Ecuador

In Germany’s opening, the ref didn’t react to a high foot that went into the head. VAR also didn’t say a word.

But later they gave a penalty, then “reopened the old account” and said the earlier action was not allowed—so the penalty was cancelled. With VAR, sometimes it feels like it isn’t protecting fairness—it’s just mechanically executing code.

🥲 Summary:

VAR was originally meant to reduce mistakes. But now it’s gone and created brand-new “unfairness” moments that are impossible to swallow.

The technical accuracy keeps getting better, but that kind of “human judgment” and sense of balance on the pitch seems to be getting less and less.