Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak admitted that his side had to accept the defeat in the\u00a02018 FIFA World Cup opener against France<\/p>\n
Australia were beaten 2-1 by France\u00a0due to the decision of the Uruguayan referee Andres Cunha to\u00a0award the French a penalty by video assistant referee (VAR) technology.<\/p>\n
After Australian defender Josh Risdon was initially cleared of wrongdoing in a tackle on French star Antoine Greizman, referee Cunha decided to consult the video footage of the incident and\u00a0pointed to the penalty spot.<\/p>\n
Without any mistake,\u00a0Griezmann went on to score the first-ever VAR-awarded penalty in World Cup history<\/p>\n
In a press conference on Sunday,\u00a0Jedinak said that Australia simply must accept that VAR is now part of football.<\/p>\n
“If I said I wasn’t frustrated by this decision, I wouldn’t be lying,” he said, as quoted by Channel News Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n “But we can’t change it now. The score says 2-1, penalty to Griezmann and yellow card for Risdon. It is what it is.”<\/p>\n The Aston Villa midfielder reasoned: “It’s here and it’s here to stay. I think we just have to move on.<\/p>\n “People could debate it for as long as we’re here, and beyond. But you know what, it is what it is now and we have to move forward, as harsh as it may be.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak admitted that his side had to accept the defeat in the\u00a02018 FIFA World Cup opener against France Australia were beaten 2-1 by France\u00a0due to the decision of the Uruguayan referee Andres Cunha to\u00a0award the French a penalty by video assistant referee (VAR) technology. After Australian defender Josh Risdon was initially cleared of wrongdoing in a tackle on French star Antoine Greizman, referee Cunha decided to consult the video footage of the incident and\u00a0pointed to the penalty spot. Without any mistake,\u00a0Griezmann went on to score the first-ever VAR-awarded penalty in World Cup history In a press conference on Sunday,\u00a0Jedinak said that Australia simply must accept that VAR … Continue reading “Mile Jedinak: Australia must accept VAR”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,50],"tags":[637,110,1570,1071],"class_list":["post-13921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-fifa-world-cup","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-australia","tag-france","tag-mile-jedinak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}