{"id":296990,"date":"2023-12-15T22:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=296990"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:24:16","slug":"jamie-carragher-hails-var-for-being-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/jamie-carragher-hails-var-for-being-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Carragher hails VAR for being at its 'BEST'"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jamie Carragher praised VAR for operating at it’s ‘best’ after a video check at the City Ground saw Tottenham midfielder Yves Bissouma sent off for a dangerous tackle against Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n
Bissouma was shown a straight red card by referee Jarred Gillet after he slid in on Ryan Yates and caught the Forest captain after he had played a pass.<\/p>\n
The combative Tottenham player went in recklessly and caught Yates high up on his leg and leaving VAR with a simple check to deem Bissouma should be given his early marching orders.<\/p>\n
Carragher – like many – has been critical of VAR this season but praised its intervention in reducing Ange Postecoglou’s side to 10-men on Friday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Commentating on the match for Sky Sports, Carragher said: ‘He’s going to do well to get away with that. He’s going off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Yves Bissouma was sent off for this dangerous challenge on Nottingham Forest captain Ryan Yates<\/p>\n
‘I mean the only thing that you think I mean listen that’s a definite red card I mean the big thing that you may be looking at is the actual force. And there’s no doubt the force is there for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Listen that’s what we’ve got VAR for that’s VAR working at its best it’s going to be difficult at times maybe looking. If you’re a referee it happens so quickly, trying to spot it in real time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It’s high there’s excessive force there. That’s what you don’t want to see. He is shaking his head but he knows he knows,’ he added.<\/p>\n
Bissouma’s red card is the fourth Spurs have been shown this season, with the 27-year-old previously being sent off against Luton for diving that earned him a second yellow card in the match.<\/p>\n
Defenders Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie are the other culprits to be sent off during Tottenham’s ongoing Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n
Further misery followed Bissouma’s sending off as Udogie was booked in the immediate aftermath meaning he will miss Tottenham’s upcoming match against Everton.<\/p>\n
More to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n