Champions League will start using VAR from 2019, say Uefa

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Uefa have announced that VAR will be introduced into the Champions League in the 2019-20 season. 

The Uefa Executive Committee have decided to introduce Video Assistant Referees (VAR) in the 2019/20 Champions League, starting with the play-off stages of the competition next August.

The committee also agreed that VAR will be used at the 2019 Uefa Super Cup, subsequently extending its use to the final tournament of Euros 2020, in the 2020/21 Uefa Europa League (group-stage onwards), and in the 2021 Nations League finals.

Aleksander Čeferin, president of European football’s governing body, said the organisation are confident that the implementation will provide enough time to train officials “to put in place a robust system.”

VAR was supposed to resolve conflicts over key decisions in games, but at the World Cup’s implementation of the new system was not without controversy. Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel was critical of two penalty decisions given after VAR reviews in his country’s group stage win over Peru, saying the technology “dominated the game.” Elsewhere, Australia midfielder Mile Jedinak suggested VAR will make referees more hesitant to give decisions.

“VAR would have denied Real Madrid two Champions League wins”

The introduction will be welcomed by players like Arturo Vidal, however. The Chilean midfielder claimed the system would have resulted in his former club, Bayern Munich, winning two more Champions League crowns.

Vidal bemoaned Bayern’s quarter-final second leg defeat in April 2017. That clash progressed to extra time with the scores level at 1-2 to Bayern (3-3 on aggregate). Then two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo in the first period of extra time and another from Marco Asensio sent Bayern crashing out of the tournament.

Ronaldo’s second goal was scored from an offside position, something Vidal believes would have turned the tide in Bayern’s favour, despite them losing 6-3 on aggregate.

“With VAR, Bayern would have had two more Champions League titles and Real Madrid two fewer,” Vidal said, according to AS.

“I want to win everything,” he added. “My favourite title is the Champions League.”

How did fans react to the news?

Some seem to share Vidal’s assessment

Others pointed towards the controversial VAR decision on Chelsea’s equaliser against Liverpool in the League Cup on Wednesday night

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