Croatia was eliminated from the World Cup following a 2-1 defeat to Portugal in a controversial match where the Balkans’ equalizing goal in the 14th minute of added time was overturned by VAR. Croatia’s head coach Zlatko Dalić expressed strong dissatisfaction with the decision to disallow the equalizer, remarking that VAR now takes away the joy from football.
“That was very poor refereeing,” Dalić told reporters. “But Croatia lost. I’m not going to make excuses. We could have won earlier.
You could see how deeply the emotions were affected, and overall, these decisions set you back and effectively rob football of its joy.
I’m not saying that VAR can’t sometimes help, but it kills the emotions, kills everything, kills what you feel, and it’s not easy to deal with all of that.”
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