In the 10th minute of the second leg of the ASEAN Cup 2024 semi-final between Vietnam and Singapore on the evening of December 29 at Viet Tri Stadium (Phu Tho), goalkeeper Dinh Trieu's net shook after a chaotic situation in front of the goal.
From a throw-in on the right wing, Faris Ramli headed the ball into the Vietnamese net. However, the referee immediately disallowed the goal.
However, VAR technology had to intervene because Faris Ramli's movement was quite sensitive and difficult to determine whether it was offside or not. The main referee even had to directly review the situation for quite a while before deciding to deny Singapore's goal due to offside.
“Watching through the TV camera angle, it can be seen that in this situation, the Singapore team had 2 players in an offside position. However, the main referee must determine whether player number 10, who scored the goal, was involved in the previous ball situation or not.
That is, the moment after the throw-in, from the header passed by a teammate, is the player in an offside position involved in the ball situation or not?
In this situation, the referee made a very correct decision when he denied the Singapore team's goal because of an offside error," said a former FIFA-level referee.
The former referee added: “In my opinion, the VAR technology at this year's tournament seems to not have enough camera angles to provide the best angles.
This affects the referees' decision-making, so they need to watch the situation very carefully, watch it over and over again for a long time before making the final decision. Not only this match, but in the first leg between Vietnam and Singapore, there were also controversies surrounding the VAR issue."
