Khorramabad VAR Quality: Disastrous, Like the 1980s!

A controversial incident occurred in the Persepolis vs. Khaybar Khorramabad match: after reviewing the clash involving Uston Uronov, referee Payam Heydari reversed his initial decision to award a penalty to the Reds.

According to "Varzeh Se" report, in the 34th minute of the match, after the Khyber defenders blocked the ball, Oston Oronov took advantage of the negligence of the home team's players and stole the ball behind the penalty area. This player continued to move and fell on the ground after colliding with Khyber's defender, so that Payam Heydari immediately pointed to the penalty spot. However, a few moments later, Hossein Zamani, the referee of the VAR room, asked Heydari to refer to the monitor on the side of the field to review the scene; A request that changed the judging process of this scene.

The remarkable thing about this scene was the images that were provided to the judge for review. Heydari examined the scene of the collision between Oronov and Khyber's defender using television images and finally changed his initial decision to cancel Persepolis' penalty. This happened while the quality and variety of visual angles are very important in reviewing the sensitive scenes of judging. This happened while the quality of the images that were placed in Heydari's discretion was much lower than usual, and in fact, the judge announced the final vote regarding this scene with a frame that was not very clear.

In this way, the scene that was initially accompanied by the announcement of a penalty in favor of Persepolis, after the arrival of VAR and the review of television images, led to the cancellation of the penalty kick.