Overview
- Late in the match on Saturday, Davinson Sánchez headed what looked like a winning goal but the assistant flagged and VAR intervened to review the play.
- VAR’s semi-automated offside technology drew lines that showed the tip of Sánchez’s right boot ahead by an almost imperceptible amount, and referee Alireza Faghani confirmed the offside.
- The sequence began with a corner that was recycled into a cross, which reset the offside line because there is no offside directly from a corner kick.
- The disallowed goal left the game 0-0, kept Colombia top of Group K, and set Colombia to face Ghana in the Round of 32 on July 3 at Arrowhead Stadium.
- Broadcasters, fans, and analysts reacted strongly to the tiny margin and have renewed proposals such as a visible 'daylight' or margin-of-error standard to prevent millimetre-level calls from deciding matches.