After the trouble for the VAR application at the Bundesliga opening between FC Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) specified the use rules of the video assistant.
In the exchange with the German Football Association (DFB) it was made clear that the video assistant can now intervene if a player plays or touches the ball twice when the game continuation is carried out without the referee, and the attack phase that has started in a goal or penalty for the team this player, “said the DFB on Wednesday.
Curious scene for the Bundesliga start
Such a situation had occurred on Friday at the opening of the season in Munich. Leipzig’s central defender Castello Lukeba had not carried out a free kick in his own half in accordance with the rules and presented the ball several times. Afterwards, the guests achieved the supposed 1: 4 in the 66th minute. The referee team on the field had initially not noticed until Munich’s Joshua Kimmich complained violently: the Var switched on and the gate was withdrawn.
This decision was “correct, but the video assistant’s note did not correspond to the VAR protocol,” said the DFB’s statement. In the future, the two -time playing of the ball is no longer a “coherent process”, the association continued, instead the first contact now applies “as the beginning of the attack phase”. To date, the VAR was only allowed to switch on in the immediate point of attack before the goal.
“The clarification of the Ifab creates more fairness and also legal certainty,” said Jochen Drees, VAR manager of the DFB, who, according to the association’s information, approached the rule keepers of the IFAB: “As rarely a situation in Munich happens: It is correct and important that the VAR then has the official permission and the obligation to intervene and prevent a clearly irregular goal.”