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Given that most of the controversy with VAR surrounds the highly-marginal decisions such as in the Cameroon and USA matches in the Women's World Cup, and the Netherlands game in the Nations League, is there a case for allowing these sort of decisions to stand based on the original decision?
It doesn't quite work because the tendency will be to let marginal offsides, in particular, go knowing that the technology will pick up any error if a goal is scored. Which is surely right because it is better to err in favour of an attacker and still allow the chance than a defender in those situations.
Cricket has the advantage of the ball going dead regardless so the game can stop.