Offside or not …Mbappe goal was so good, it should have stood
Day 5: Hungary vs Portugal | France vs Germany
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Offside or not, what a finish.
That was an incredible finish. Proper eye of the needle stuff. Thought he’d wasted the chance them just found a gap. Shame it was offside.
Arguably but not likely from a rules perspective.
I hope the English FA are learning from the use of VAR in this tournament so far. Seems to take only seconds, with no tortuous line drawing.
Seeing a bit more of the United Pogba in this half
It's time for Löw to make subs at least. New energy while we're well in the game
You'd rather he raise the flag, the goal doesn't stand and then replays show he was onside?
He deserves the time to find his place. Giroud is a great second option.
VAR is such a tease 
Needlessly losing possession in his own half?
Germany 11/1 to win now
Sane coming on.
No, you're just seeing Pogba.
Germany missing an actual striker. They need to bring Volland or Werner on and Sane as well.
You're right, I suppose. Just think these kind of challenges are way more dangerous and can do more devastating damage than studs showing sliding tackles.
Maybe i`m stupid but can anyone explain why the linesmen must wait until the player scores to tell it was offside?
Werner coming on as well.
Werner and Sane coming on. Pace galore!
In case they got it wrong so they don't stop a legitimate scoring chance.
Werner's coming on to give us a laugh
The new rule is they wait until the end of the attack/goal to indicate if it was off side or not
Havertz seems a bit off the pace, playing very slow
Because if he was wrong then they'd miss out on scoring
They don't have to but the alternative is to blow the whistle, the goal never stands and then replays show that he wasn't actually offside. Isn't this much better, considering we have VAR now?
They're told to keep their flag down if its close.
In case he gets it wrong. Play continues and it gets checked by VAR.
I’ve not liked the balance of the French team for a few years, but found it hard to argue due to their results. Very little pace in the team for a start, just Mbappé, but then they are not s one touch Spanish team either. They are a boring bunch by all accounts.
No offside was close enough to need VAR and the one that needed it, they didn't use it and were wrong (Mbappe).
Werner it is
I can stay onside
Potentially but challenging for aerial balls has an fairly high level of inherent danger. Any one of of heads, feet, legs or arms can smash you up good in the air with no intent at all.
that's the new rule to avoid false positive offiside calls, they can always review on VAR
Even when he's guarding his mouth to speak Löw looks a bit pervy
He works harder defensively imo
How many off sides will he be able to get in the final 20 minutes?
Mbappé scoring an offside goal and Löw is thinking "we can do that" and bringing on Werner.
American footballers didn’t worry all that much about those head bangs either, until someone else did the thinking for them. The athletes don’t tend to have the best recognition of what’s the right amount and kind of pain to tolerate in the moment. Too busy being real men.
What?
Ronaldo's second goal today would've been a three minute VAR check in England though.