VAR checked 335 incidents in World Cup group stage – FIFA

FIFA said video assistant referee (VAR) crews conducted checks on 335 incidents during the World Cup group stage, helping achieve a 99.3 percent rate of correct decisions.

The VAR system is being used at a World Cup for the first time in Russia. “335 incidents were checked by the VAR team.

All the goals scored (122) were checked by the VAR, and in addition many other incidents occurring on the field,” Pierluigi Collina, the chairman of FIFA’s referees committee, said Friday.

With 48 matches in the group stage, the figure averages out to almost seven incidents per game in Russia. “Within these 335 checks, we had 17 so called VAR reviews,” said Collina. “We had 14 decisions changed by the intervention of the VAR.