Refereeing body says VAR should not have intervened after Dehmaine Tabibou red in Nantes-Brest | OneFootball

The FFF’s Direction de l’arbitrage said in its weekly review that VAR should not have intervened in Dehmaine Tabibou’s dismissal during Nantes-Brest, which finished 1-1, judging the original on-field decision was not a clear and obvious error.

On Sunday, Tabibou fouled Luck Zogbé just outside the box. Referee Guillaume Paradis issued a yellow card and a free-kick for unsporting behaviour, then after a video recommendation to check for a potential denial of an obvious goalscoring opportunity, he upgraded it to red in the 60th minute.

Two days later, Paradis asked the LFP disciplinary commission in a supplementary report to annul the red card.

The VAR officials on the game were Mehdi Mokhtari and Ludovic Zmyslony.

At the moment of the foul, the attacker’s chance of keeping or regaining the ball was deemed too uncertain for a denial of an obvious goalscoring opportunity under the protocol. The incident came on matchday 30 of Ligue 1.

Source: L'Équipe