The head of refereeing at Euro 2024 has admitted that English officials took too long over a VAR decision during the Netherlands’ draw with France.
In one of the few controversial refereeing decisions in the tournament so far, referee Anthony Taylor and VAR Stuart Attwell checked whether Netherlands full-back Denzel Dumfries, who was in an offside position, had prevented France goalkeeper Mike Maignan from diving to save a shot from Xavi Simons that went in.
After several minutes Attwell determined that Dumfries had impeded the dive and confirmed the on-field decision made by Taylor.
Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman, however, was furious with the decision.
“If it’s offside, then you don’t need to spend five minutes touching your ear,” Koeman said.
“I don’t understand this. If you have this much doubt, you give a goal!”
While believing it to be a correct decision, France manager Didier Deschamps agreed it had taken too long.
Uefa’s managing director of referees Roberto Rosetti said: “We can improve because we have also to find elements of improvement — and there are always elements for improvement.
“I guess I think in this situation the element of improvement is the duration of this review.
“For sure the duration can be less. We can decrease the duration of the review.”
But the Italian insisted that the call was “not easy” in such a high-pressure environment.
“In this situation the VAR checked two possible offsides, then he had to check also the possible impact of the attacker on the goalkeeper, and then he checked also possible previous contact between the players,” Rosetti said.
“Then we can add that we at the Euro, the pressure is the pressure, and of course we always accuracy, of course working on the speed of the duration of reviews. But at the end the decision is totally correct.”
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In audio of the decision, heard by i, after Taylor initially rules the goal out for offside Atwell says: “Goal possible offside. I just wanna see the offside first. Delay, delay, I’m going to check the offside.
“He’s impacting the goalkeeper’s ability to make a full dive. You can make an argument based on these pictures that the goalkeeper isn’t able to make a full dive.
“No intervention. Tayls, Tayls confirm on-field decision of offside. Confirm on-field decision of offside. Check is complete.”
Rosetti added: “Listening to the conversation between Anthony Taylor and Stuart Attwell, I think it’s very clear why they took the final decision.
“First point, the decision was taken in the pitch, so the referee saw the geographic position of offside of the player.
“He communicated with his assistant referee and then he evaluated the possible impact on the attacker on the goalkeeper. So the impact is another key element to define this final decision.
“Another key element you can easily understand is also the trajectory of the ball and the possibility of the goalkeeper to make the save.
“At the end the decision was offside, because the attacker was impacting on the goalkeeper.
“The Uefa referee committee totally supported the decision. We think the decision is right. And we are happy about the process.”
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