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Originally Posted by bhlloy
If you'd ask me what I'd hoped to get out of VAR it isn't a situation where 30-40% of goals come of PKs, but that appears to be where we are heading right now. I'm stunned that FIFA has managed to implement it in such a shitshow way, although the weak inexperienced referees at this WC aren't helping either.
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This is the least surprising stuff, really. A large increase of penalty kick goals (combined with likely no decrease from 'normal goals') was predicted by all the pundits fromin the Netherlands, where VAR has been used a bit longer than in most of the world.