UEFA chief referee Roberto Rosetti | Football News

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Paul Dickov and Kevin Campbell discuss the use of VAR in Schalke's win against Manchester City

UEFA referee, Roberto Rosetti, responded to criticisms regarding the use of VAR during Manchester City's victory over Schalke and said the accuracy is more important than the speed to make decisions.

Two revisions to the VAR led to penalties in Wednesday's Champions League match, which City won 3-2 with Raheem Sterling's 90th-minute winner.

Both cases occurred over a period of approximately ten minutes in which a technical problem experienced by the VAR technical provider affected the ability to render rebroadcast images in the Referee Arbitration Zone. .

Two revisions to VAR led to penalties in Manchester City victory

Rosetti commented on these two decisions: "I am pleased to note that even if the arbitrator does not have the opportunity to consider the incidents on his own, the excellent cooperation of the # 39; team of officials allowed to make the right decisions.

"It should also be emphasized that, as described in the VAR protocol, accuracy is always more important than speed in making a decision.

"It is clear that last night's technical issues have had a significant impact on the time needed to make decisions, but we are fully aware that reducing the time factor is the key to VAR's success and we strive to make revisions as fast and efficient as possible.

"However, what we ultimately want are correct decisions in such situations and that's what we had yesterday."

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Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City coach, says he favors the VAR while his team concedes two penalties and that a player is sent back on Wednesday

With respect to the first decision, the inability to access reruns in the field control area resulted in a delay in making the correct decision to award a penalty for a handball offense , while the VAR verbally described the situation to the referee to allow him to make a final decision and for the referee to then provide an explanation to the captains of both teams to clarify the circumstances regarding the control zone the ground and the decision-making process

The second decision was also correctly made on the basis of the law of play (Law 11 – offside) which states: "if a player in an offside position goes to the ball with the intention of playing the ball and is at fault before playing or attempting to play the ball, or defying an opponent for the ball, the foul is sanctioned as it was before the offense offside "

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