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the talking points after matches The 2019 UEFA Champions League
included VAR. One example of this final between Liverpool and
was when England's leading goal- Tottenham Hotspurs saw Liverpool
scorer Harry Kane, seemed to have being awarded a penalty for a
been fouled twice by a Tunisian Moussa Sissoko's handball within
player during a game. Later in the the first fifteen minutes. Another
game, Tunisia themselves earned a controversial decision by V.A.R that
penalty for a similar incident. Other could have gone either way. One
matches between Switzerland and that for many that ruined the rest
Brazil and Australia and France of the game.
also had “tongues wagging"
because of VAR's use or the lack
thereof.
