Late in the scoreless first half of the UEFA Champions League group-phase match between Atlético Madrid and Club Brugge this evening, Brugge's winger Tajon Buchanan entered the penalty area with the ball and had a run-in with Atlético's left back Nahuel Molina. After the referee called a penalty for Brugge, the video-assistant referee intervened, and the referee reversed his call: the video made clear that Buchanan had stepped on Molina's ankle, not vice versa. Video review may still generate a great deal of discussion, but this was precisely the kind of call that it was designed to fix: when the referee's initial call is clearly wrong in such a significant situation. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 12 October 2022)
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