REACTION to Germany vs. Denmark: 'VAR was created to stop debates... but we've never had so many!' 

Dembele and Sané should start a company called "Almost Inc." 😂

Musiala is something else maann.. Nothing but PURE talent..His ball control, silky dribbling and playmaking skills are something else..The young Magician 🥶🔥🪄

VAR was created to reduce the amount of mistakes made by refs and it’s doing that. How about the offside the rule has always been there, we just didn’t have the technology that allowed us to see the closer calls. This is not about VAR, it’s about the rule in itself. You can’t blame VAR officials for doing their job, there is no “minimum margin” required for an offside to be called, even if it’s half an inch it’s an offside

Completely correct about Sané, he maybe believes he's an exceptional Talent. And he was a few years ago but he hasn't matured beyond that.

It was offside, keeper got defended at the 5th minute goal, penalty harsh but rules hae. Dunno why nothing was done to the German guy floored at the big Havertz miss. Dark yellow in my opinion. Well deserved win Germany. Great effort Denmark.

Schlotterbeck needs to remain in the team over Tah, he looked very solid

„There is nothing he can do to avoid the penalty“… what??? So we are going to ignore how defenders were thought to keep their hands on their body since age 6? What kind of stupid comment is that, he has his arm stretched out, his fault, clumsy defending. Also no one saying anything about the disallowed goal in the 3rd minute, always just hate on Germany

Am i tripping or did the ball not hit a german defender before it went to anderson?

Yeah largely this happens when the punters hate the result and the English sure continue to love to hate Germany - foolishly so

“Sane is the Dembele of Germany” No truer words have been said

It was OFFSIDE.. Stop trying to create a controversial debate

* Germany beats Scotland 5-1: "Scotland were really bad " *Germany beats Hungary 2-0: "They were lucky not to conceide" *Germany draw with Switzerland: "They're starting to come back to Earth and see their level" *Germany beat Denmark 2-0: "VAR was very harsh against Denmark." Why does there always need to be some asterisk along side their results. At this stage, they're clearly great and Germany Spain could be the game of the tournament.

If havertz was more clinical in front of goal it would've been a very comfortable win for Germany, overall they deserved to win despite some controversial decisions but they seriously need to think about starting fulkrug as their striker

The controversial debate should be about germanys first goal in 3rd minute

Is anyone seriously making the argument that Denmark got robbed....pleeeeease

Germany would be top tier if Havertz was a good striker and Sane wasnt so selfish with the ball. The lad is the most annoying german player to watch by far.

French here. What are we discussing? Denmark lost 1 point due to var, and had an offside, germany lost 2. And to top it all off, schmeichel was insane this game, germany had like 3 shots directly on target in firsg 20mins, and each one being VERY good. Im sorry but if denmark wouldn't have played to penalties, they stood no chance this game. The best player from them was Schmeichel, propably the best keeper i have seen so far in the euros. Im sorry but there were VIDEOS SHOWING, that it eas offside and that andersen hit the ball, the chip inside the ball even marked it. It was just fair. Var took back 2 of germanies goals, so please, don't cry cause if one goal that the danes lost

The Germans scored the first goal, not the Danes! Not giving Schlotterbeck's goal was the first wrong decision and the Danes benefited from it.

The only “controversy” (re: whining) comes from people who simply wanted Germany to lose. The big decisions (each team had goals chalked off, and the penalty) were tough but fair.

If you have the technology to measure millimeters, you have to make decisions based on that. You can not make decisions by feel anymore, because that won't be fair. Same with the handball. The only fair way is the strict enforcement of the rules. When you start o make exception based on intention etc. you get less fair because the next scene you will have a different ruling.

"We saw Denmark go head - the goal was then disallowed." Klinsmann then basically repeats the phrase. What about the disallowed german goal in the 4th minute?

It was deserved, more possession, much better chances to score. Offside is offside, whether it's 1 mm or 5 meters, if you don't want that, you don't need VAR anymore.

The better team won the game.

There’s nothing controversial here though? Denmark were unlucky sure but all the calls were undeniably correct. The offside is marginal but factual, and the handball is pretty clear, well away from his body (albeit only grazed the hand). Germany’s disallowed goal also clear foul by Kimmich once you see the replay. Not sure what there’s to argue about.

I can understand VAR debates about fouls because that line is fluid, but it has quite literally eliminated all room for debate about the questions wether a hand had contact or wether someone was offside because it's unchangeable facts...

Romelu lukaku had 3 goals disallowed. Germany hag 1 vs scotland and 1 here. Many goals were disallowed for 1 micromillimeter offside. Nobody complained. Germany deserved to win this match.

VAR always makes the correct call when it favors your team. If it does not favor your team, then VAR sucks. With all that said, Denmark did not do enough to win the game, deserved for Germany. Sané sucks.

Klinsmann, GERMANY scored the first disallowed goal after 5 mins. They were limited with Sane on the right, they played better against Switzerland, Wirtz needs to come back in andreich and Gundogan were below standard this game as well. Havertz doesn’t pass the eye test but gets full marks for his effectiveness in confusing defences.

There is zero debate! I wouldn't give the penalty, cause I don't like the rule, but it is in the book! Greetings from germany and at the end we won, cause we where better even we missed a lot of chances! Sané is pure trash not trying to do anything and was just jogging his nice hair around! I don't ever want to see him again in this tournament because we need 11 Players who are fighting or even trying to play football against the Spaniards!

VAR was created so solve all these problems alright and aometimes they make controversies but also sometimes media and fans create their own false controversies just to have conversations and blamegame when VAR makes the right call

Denmark was atrocious the whole tournament: has not won a single game and scored only 2 goals in 4 games. Now suddenly they thought they deserved to go forward instead of Germany? Regardless of the refereeing, Germany was better than Denmark in all departments.

With the arm up you increase the surface area that defends the ball. How’s that penalty debatable?

first german goal should have stood ! The handball penalty should not given. . Overall Germany was better and deserved the win. Look at the stats.

For me, all decisions made sense and were made up to UEFA standards. In the end, Germany had two goals disallowed, and Denmark got the offside and the penalty against them, all rightfully though. So it was balanced and the goal of Musiala made the difference. Biggest referee question mark would be not giving yellow and free kick for the foul from behind on Sané at the penalty semicircle.

Like little kids, once they don't like something it's impossible to get them to change their minds, you just need to wait until they grow up. VAR is great, get over it, or go back to riding horses instead of using cars. Anderson could've ran faster and avoided being in a position where he needs to take that pose, he didn't get a card because it was unintentional. Period.

People who deem Havertz's performance today as disappointing really need to give their understanding of football a check.

Germany dominated this game it wasn’t even close.

Without VAR Germany would have won 4:1

All calls were right in this game. I don’t know why there is a debate.

So ball to the hand in the box was always a penalty but now they have to factor in that players are human?!

Why stress over what technology clears all doubts about? Stop the agenda!

You can not "un-invent" something, VAR has been called for time and time again now its here people hate it, personally I would trust tech more then a Refs Eye. Blame the rules on FIFA they make them VAR supports them. I suspect had England been the team under scrutiny every thing would have been fine. Mark Pugach is a @rick along with the commentator who's last game it was.

The problem is not VAR. The problem is the way the rules are written.

Anyone who even waste their breath by comparing Bellingham to Musiala is disrespecting football itself.. Musiala WAY better

You guys say they scored the first goal when in fact Germany did 😅

So you're saying that it wasn't offside?? If it was another team, would you still say that?? So you are telling me ESPN that you have never seen any situation like this where var gave it as offside?? I've seen closer ones than this, even if it's half an inch, it is still offside.. You guys are pathetic.. If I was like you, I would be worried about England and not my team 😂😂.. We had two disallowed goals today, and we could debate about the first one, but we just moved on.. When you lose, you should accept it, because even if you don't, that still can't change the outcome.. We should have scored more than two goals today if Kai was able to finish.. Of course, our performance wasn't convincing, in fact, I don't wish to rewatch the match or the highlights, but the truth is, we won fairly.. So you can say that an offside goal is an onside goal, it still doesn't change the outcome.. And I'm not surprised, because this channel is very contradictory and controversial.. I am yet to see a sensible pundit in presentation 😂😂.. You people are just pathetic and ridiculous..

"They need to check if he really did that on purpose" - What a absolute crazy statement. Lets then implement therapy-sessions for red card fouls, because he didnt do it on purpose. Maybe he had a bad childhood or was to fast so he broke the other guys foot by accident.

Only time there are debates is when the referees are English.

Game was incredibly one sided. The stats speak for themselves. They also got a disallowed goal that was a lot more sus than actual offsides

As an American, do soccer people look at stats and see Germany shot a lot more or had more possession? What’s the problem?

The VAR decisions were insane. They also had a meeting for the premier league 2 years ago where they said situations that led to the handball in the match would never lead to a penality. The 1 cm offside - you know how freaking small that offside is - where two players stood beside each other but VAR finds the cm - makes the game ridiculous. This is not how football should be like. It’s not though luck. It’s by design. Lewandowski also had several goals taken away by him having a bigger shoe size. This is not why the offside rule was implemented - to help teams with smaller shoe sizes. It was made preventing defenders from passing to whoever is farthest along. VAR makes football more unfair because it is more exact and precise than a referee ever could be, and in fact Too precise and exact, it’s a bad thing and it sucks.

I think people spend too much time whining whenever a team wins a game and gets a result that they didn’t deserve purely because of the ref. Germany vs Denmark, we all know what happened as in the game today as in the 1st half, the game was stopped for a couple of minutes due to lightning and a thunderstorm in the stadium as the refs felt as if it wasn’t the safest conditions for the players to play in. Anyways at the start of the 2nd half, Denmark had a disallowed goal which was the right decision from the ref because as you can see from the replay, their player was offside and this is something that cannot be argued against and in the box when they were defending, it was an obvious penalty because you can’t be sticking your hand up in the wrong area of the pitch. At the end of the day, it’s easy for people to not give Germany the credit that they deserve for winning 2-0 because there were some decisions that went in their way, this is part of football and just sports in general nobody can change the way a ref officiates a game because decisions have to be made and you shouldn’t spend 24/7 crying about it. Regardless of what people think of the refs, Germany went about their business and for the most part of the game they were the better team and of course there’s some weaknesses that Julian Nagelsmann needs to address because they’ll get punished by the better teams in the latter stages of the tournament, they have been an impressive team and you wouldn’t be shocked if they go on to win the EUROs because they’ve shown that there are periods where they don’t have to be great as they’re able to do enough to get the job done in the end and that’s all that matters in a major tournament.

Serbia should have got a penalty for the foul on Mitrovic in the game against England....so what??? What I dislike is if the penalty shooter freezes during the penalty!!

It's a handball because the hand helps you and diverts the ball to a place it wouldn't be if the hand wasn't there. Whether you do it deliberately or not, it's a handball because your hand helps you.

Why are close but correct decisions only discussed controversially when Germany benefits? There were other close VAR decisions where there was no discussion. If England had capitalised on that handball, would we be having the same discussion?

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Clear offside, Clear handball!

We were the better team and rightfully won. Other than the typical envy towards us because of our past success, I don’t get these weird debates. Denmark gave it their all but we also got a goal disallowed for whatever reason. It is what it is.

The teferee was absolutely terrible. Throwing cards around like he has lost his mind and wanted to feel like a little dictator. Denmark deserved someone with more capable.

It's his fault to not put his hands behind like good defenders

Calling Sane Dembele is actually so disrespectful. Sane doesn’t deserve that slander

1. Füllkrug should be starting over Kai.. He has been wasting too many chances, if it wasn't for the penalty he wouldn't score today.. I don't know why Nagelsmann would have a natural goal scorer sitting on the bench, if he was the one to get all those chances that Kai has been getting, he would already be the leading goal scorer.. 2. Why can't we play the way we played against Scotland with such intensity and aggression? As soon as the opposition gets the ball, we would close them down immediately to regain possession.. We have been looking dull and slow.. And I think we have lost our sharpness in front of goal.. 3. I commend our defense to a certain degree in today's match, especially Rüdiger, he put out all for the team today.. But nevertheless, we are still not yet compact at the back.. And we have Spain next, because they are going to beat Georgia, so we have to sharpen up on both defense and attack, we can't afford to continue playing like this, in fact, we can't play like this against Spain, else we are going to get beaten, it's because Denmark didn't have any cutting edge today.. 4. Why are we accumulating disallowed goals?? 😂😂.. 3 in two matches now.. But seriously though, we really need to find the balance, else we aren't beating Spain.. Yes, we won today, but it wasn't convincing.. Congrats to my team though, but we need to get it right this time around, because we are about to play arguably the best team in the tournament in Spain..

Schlotterbeck scored the first disallowed goal in this game 😮

Wrong. VAR was created to make games more fair. And that it does.

it was 100% handball, players in the penalty box should be keeping their hands closer to their body. everyone KNOWS that. what on earth are these pundits talking about lmao

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Frank LeBeouf in the studio looks so wrong and out of place lmao

It really wasn’t closer man… Denmark was good but especially the first half, Schmeichel saved another two or three goals

This is not a VAR discussion. I don't know why it's being framed as such. It's aobut the rules of handball.

Sané is big rubbish... (from a Bayern fan)

There are nothing to debate it was close but offside, this pseudo Journalist who have no clue about football

Whether its half a mm offside its offside period 😂thats the whole point of VAR 😂

The rules were applied correctly I don’t know why pundits are talking about it. Funny 😄

A handball as we've seen in this game should always be penalized, because A it changed the direction of the ball and maybe the situation might be way more dangerous and B it wasn't exactly a natural posture. He even raised the arm. It wasn't intentional, but he changed the play with his arm. If not in this situation when should we ever punish the involvement of the arm or hand? So I don't agree with these two gentlemen. VAR made every decision crystal clear, but we still love to argue. The off side was off side, the arm changed the trajectory of the ball and the "foul" in the 4th minute was a foul, although not serious. The referee was very strict throughout the whole game so it made sense - unlike the italian referee in the last game against Switzerland who probably wasn't a big fan of Germany or wanted his team to play against them next... Who knows? But I agree with everything you said about Sané. I was nervous when I saw him in the starting lineup.

Why is steve blaming the ref for the penalty? It was the VAR that contacted him and made him look at it. And it’s not the refs fault, it’s the rules that may need an update, but currently as it stands, it’s a pen by the rules, not the refs nor the var‘s fault

Deserved win could be 5 or more if Havertz is not blind

Musiala>> foden, Palmer, Gordon, saka.

Can’t believe we compared Musiala with Pedri and Gavi

every man and his dog knows germany is in the final.

The fact that VAR isn't perfect doesn't mean it isn't better than we had before. it is.

Clear penalty! Everyone saw the handball .

People (English people) just love to complain 😂

As much as people praise Rudiger I find him to be really off putting and pathetic. Primarily because he is always clattering into opponents and injuring them. But then he himself pretends like he’s injured to avoid getting carded. He does it all the time at Madrid and he did it twice alone in this match. It’s pathetic and referees need to stop rewarding his antics. Not to mention he constantly gets away with bear hugging opposition forwards and never getting called for it.

Stupid var invention took away 2 excellent goals scored by centre halves of each team. Both would have stood prior to the implementation of var. Especially Andersen's goal was good. They should remember the original rule: IF ATTACKER AND DEFENDER ARE PRETTY MUCH EVEN IT'S A GOAL. And stop with this var bs: part of his ear was offside! no goal! Andersen got treated very poorly, they took away a very good goal from him and then hand a very harsh penalty against him few min later. As though: hey, it's Germany that's supposed to win. Sane invisible, what was he doing in starting 11? Schlotterbeck on the other hand excellent, he should replace Tah permanently. Few years ago when Flick took him to a major tournament (I guess WC 22) he was clearly not ready for the big international stage and made mistake after mistake. He's matured and played very well. Still, Germany will bow out in next match to Spain cause the spaniards look invincible

I think Germany was the better team of the day, but it was certainly a closer game than a 2-0 would suggest. A 2-1 or 3-1 would have been what i'd expected.

The danish defender simulating against Kimmich warrants Schlotterbeck's goal to be disallowed, but a factually proven offside doesn't? The anti Germany bias is insane

NO Herr Klinsmann Denmark did NOT score the first goal

Uh oh....now Germany might run into Spain in the Quarterfinals! And the Spanish players know it, the German players know it.....Germany is gonna get burried by Spain! Jonathan Tah will be back for Germany but the Spanish players are gonna run circles around him, just like they did when they beat Germany 6-0 a couple of yrs ago!

VAR is making the sport unwatchable. Are picks illegal? Kimmich has every right to essentially set a pick. I don’t know how that’s a foul. On the Denmark goal the player was offside, but wasn’t even in the play at that point. By the time he becomes involved in the play he has reestablished himself in an onside position. On the penalty his arm isn’t in an “unnatural” position at all. Arms swing when you run. Does the VAR official think people run with their arms at their side? To give a penalty for that is a joke. The whole sport is becoming a joke.

This game and the Roma vs Sevilla 2023 Europa League final : same handball foul ( identic floating arm movement to stop the ball) and same VAR ref Attwell, two different decisions; penalty awarded in this game and closed eyes in the Europa League final to gift sevilla of a robbed cup...🤮! No need to add more.

We(Denmark) were still in the game when the penalty happened. Germany came out strong but we fended them off and stayed in the game. That penalty just ruined it. It was a good game up until that point. It was a proper fight, and i have no problem losing, it's just such downer and disappointing way to go out. We were in that game giving Germany a run for their money.

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Gee, another controversial game reffed by an Englishman. What a coincidence! I'm glad that the rest of the world gets a glimpse at how dreadful English refs truly are. But to be fair, the offside was objectively offside. The handball is 50/50 imo. Even if both calls are objectively correct according to the letter of the law, it *feels* wrong and it *feels* like Denmark got slighted a bit. Germany played better and deserved the win, though.

There's always a gang of English referees to ruin the big games. Spain deserved winners and by far the best team in the tournament. That was a Stonewall penalty. It is not debatable with the current rules. A Handball like this is only debatable in the corrupted Premiership. Vamos Espana!!! Now go on and win it!

Ilost all hope for Sane, he is someone that will never be great, ever. He lacks something crucial for an offensive player: Killer instinct To Kai Havertz: You need to be more clinical, you played a great game, but if you miss your chances like that, it won´t matter.

Offside should be based on statistics. The whole point of offside is to avoid players getting an advantage by being closer to the enemies' goal than the enemies themselves. If statistics show that 3-4 centimeters don't make a difference, why should it count as off-side? It just gets ridiculous. Also handball should be based on signs of intention. Nothing pointed to the handball from Joachim being intentional and he didn't have a chance to move his hand because he was so close. It was just a running stance by all indications. These rules are kinda dumb IMO.

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It’s wild how this is a debate. This reminds me of the Japan game against Spain in the latest World Cup when Japan scored their second goal and the ball was millimeters from being out. This was clear offside goal from Denmark. Penalty was decided because danish defenders hand changed trajectory of the cross from Raum.

These two idiots dont even understand fifa rules or havent read them. The rule as written, specifically mentions that intent does not matter: the phrase "when a player has made their body unnaturally bigger" notes that players take calculated risks with certain movements, even if not done with the intention of handling the ball. The rule reads: "by having their hand/arm in such a[n unnatural] position, the player takes a risk of their hand/arm being hit by the ball and being penalised." Furthermore, in the final section, the rule adds the language "even if accidental" to clarify that any unnatural touch with the hand/arm, whether intentional or not, should be penalised. Stop trying to make that decision controversial. Its a penalty every day. No doubt. Its been called like that for nearly 10 years. Its not new.

To your time the first goal by Schlotterbeck wouldn‘t have been disallowed too and the match would have been done after 4 minutes in favor to Germany. Stop whining. The rules are the rules. To my time a foul was given, when the legs were broken, but Football has changed.