VAR has the opportunity to come into its own in exposing the deliberate intent to damage opposition players in order to put them at a disadvantage for the rest of the game by incapacitating them. We saw this very much in evident with some of the South American teams during the play off’s of this year’s FIFA World Cup while others were clean but now that France is through to the final then I would like to draw attention to a game between France and Portugal in the 2016 Euro final.
So as France is now through to the final of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, I would like to draw attention to the focused attack on Ronaldo evident during the 2016 Euro final, and it can be seen early in the following video when number 8 clashes into Ronaldo.
During the live performance on TV one of the cameras caught a close up of the reverse viewpoint which clearly showed the knee being rammed into Ronaldo’s left leg with the aggressor prancing off quite naturally as if nothing had happened. After the match I took particular interest to find this particular viewpoint on YouTube but without success.
Now that such important games have the facility of VAR then it is quite reasonable to be looking out out for such incidents and to make it known to players on both sides that if this unfair tactic is detected then the penalty will be an instant red card in order to help nullify this
Cristiano Ronaldo vs France HD 1080i (EURO 2016 FINAL)
Cristiano Ronaldo vs France HD 1080i (EURO 2016 FINAL)
The title of this videois quite interesting because I had decided to follow England, Russia and Portugal but had jokingly mentioned that I will be supporting England, Russia and Ronaldo.
One of the “fair” tricks of the football is to dysfunction the best players of the opponent; well, cunningly, at most by getting a yellow card. I can remember how Wayne Rooney spent months inactive treating his knee injuries.