France V Australia V A R Decision.

ToraToraTora | 23:09 Sat 16th Jun 2018 | Sport

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player went down in the box, possible penalty though ref did not blow, the ball was still live, goalie booted it down tother end. VAR got invoked so they stopped play, I assume that's the new thing, even when the ball is still live. Ok so they review it and give the penalty. What if it was not a penalty? how do they restart? free kick to the defence? were from? seems very odd.

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ichkeria

If it’s not a penalty or whatever then play continues.
However it is far from ideal. Really they need to stop play but that also is problematic as it makes things very stop start.

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"If it’s not a penalty or whatever then play continues. " - play had been stopped while they look at it ich, not a natural stoppage.

tonyav

how do they restart?

Not 100% sure but probably restart from a drop ball.

ichkeria

I thought play had continued. Football isn’t really the ideal sport for this sort of thing. Play certainly should stop. But in this case I thought I heard the studio pundits asking ok fact what would have happened if a goal had been scored at the other end and then play stopped and rewound. Actually in that situation it’s plainly a case of ... tough!

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play continued for a few seconds. I suppose there are 3 outcomes, penalty, dive(yellow card, free kick) or 50/50, presumably a drop ball in the centre.

Buenchico

I've been reading though various FIFA documents and can find nothing to vary the normal rule that, should a game be halted by the referee while the ball is in play, play must then be restarted by the ball being dropped "at the position where it was when play was stopped", with the only exception being when "play was stopped inside the goal area in which case the ball is dropped on the goal area line which is parallel to the goal line at the point nearest to where the ball was when play was stopped".

[Law 8.2: http://www.thefa.com/-/media/files/thefaportal/governance-docs/laws-of-the-game/2018-19/law-8---the-start-and-restart-of-play.ashx ]

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