English referee Michael Oliver gives a penalty for handball against Denmark after checking the VAR during a round of sixteen match between Germany and Denmark at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Dortmund, Germany, Saturday, June 29, 2024. Denmark’s Joachim Andersen scores a goal which was disallowed during a round of sixteen match between Germany and Denmark at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Dortmund, Germany, Saturday, June 29, 2024.
“Michael Oliver is not making this decision,” Tottenham’s Australian coach Ange Postecoglou said of the penalty award during a British broadcast of the Denmark game. “If I hear one more person saying that they’re not re-refereeing a game, I will blow up. I don’t think that is why we brought in technology for that decision.”
Hjulmand said he was “so tired of the ridiculous handball rule. Joachim was running normally. It’s a normal situation.”the last German defender. It was a binary ruling by the multi camera-based Semi-Automated Offside Technology system conveyed to the referee from the VAR room.After 20 corrections by VAR in those 36 games, the rate was bumped up by the three key overrules — two goals disallowed, one for each team, and the Germany penalty awarded — in the second of the round of 16 games.
“We have 10 seconds, or 12 seconds if we want, but it’s not good for the game,” said top Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers in 2016. Kuipers is at Euro 2024 working for UEFA.