Belgian referee had eight of the ten mistakes that he made correct thanks to the videoref

During the first six days of the Jupiler Pro League were the referees in 82 percent of the VAR-interventions a correct decision. That interim balance sheet, the Royal Belgian Football association (belgian football association) on Tuesday.

The Referee Office of the royal belgian football association analyzed 421 VAR-situations distributed about the 48 matches played, that are eight to nine spelfases per contest which videoref from the van are rated.

In seventeen cases being the videorefs their head referee on a “clear and obvious error”. Fourteen of them were after consultation of the VAR-corrected, three final decisions were wrong. The refs scored as 82 percent.

The VAR engages approximately equally often in for red card situations (35 percent) as for doelpuntbetwistingen (33 percent) and penaltyfases (32 percent).