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<\/p>\nMichael Owen has defended VAR by hailing 'hundreds and hundreds' of correct decisions following at fury at Liverpool.<\/p>\n
The former England striker, who scored 159 goals for the Reds between 1996 and 2004, reckons more good than bad has come as a result of the use of the technology. Owen's view comes after VAR Darren England failed to correct an offside call that cost Luis Diaz a goal against Tottenham. <\/p>\n
Owen, 43, has picked out a recent game he watched as a reason why VAR needs to stick around – while insisting that it will only improve as time goes on. Speaking to Ace Odds, Owen said: "I think that VAR will be absolutely slick and brilliant in years to come, but as I said earlier, you look at cricket, you look at rugby, they're all disasters for the first year or two, problems, changes need to be made, so it's only following a normal pattern. It will get better.<\/p>\n
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"And you could argue as well, it's very hard to defend something when it's so raw and so fresh in the memory. But there's been, yes, a load of mistakes, but there's also been hundreds and hundreds of decisions that have been corrected that otherwise wouldn't have been.<\/p>\n
"I was commentating on a game or working in the studio on a Brighton game when they got beat the other day by Athens. And honestly, if there wasn't VAR in that game, people would've been throwing things at their telly."<\/p>\n
Brighton lost 3-2 at home to AEK Athens in their Europa League opener with Joao Pedro netting twice from the spot. Owen noticed that they weren't given by the referee.<\/p>\n
He added: "I mean, virtually every big decision was wrong. Brighton got given two penalties that were the most blatant penalties, even in real time.<\/p>\n
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"He didn't even need a replay. And the referee didn't give anything and then had to change his mind over and over and over again.<\/p>\n
"I mean, it was farcical. And if we didn't have VAR, people would be screaming saying, we need this, we need VAR, we need VAR. And that was only a week or so ago.<\/p>\n
"It's under pressure at the moment because of a huge, big decision that went wrong. And obviously it's had a few decisions in the past, but it's going to clean up the game in the future.<\/p>\n
"I think people have just gotta try to use patience. They are humans at the end of the day trying. It's not the technology that's wrong, it's a couple of decisions. So I do think with patience it will get there."<\/p>\n
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