“The VAR came to do justice”, that has been its main emblem and its presence in all the matches of the South American qualifiers for the 2022 Qatar World Cup were notoriousstanding out in the vast majority of cases for fully complying with its objective and committing very few mistakes.
However, without the intervention of the video, the Qualifiers would have had a change in their table, favoring the Colombian National Team.
The Diario AS prepared a table of positions of the qualifying rounds in which he decided to subtract or add the points that were defined after the assistance of the VAR, being Colombia the most disadvantaged with the revisions.
Counting video referee appearances for all teams, Colombia would have jumped to fourth position in the Qualifiers, having three more points than it had, 24, and surpassing Peru, also with 24, because of the goal difference.
Colombia, which was also favored by VAR on some occasions, lost two points against Ecuador for the goal of Yerry Mina in the last minute and two more before Chile on Santiago, after the penalty awarded to Arturo vidal in the 2-2 draw.
Table of positions without the VAR, prepared by AS:
Table of positions of the South American Qualifiers without the presence of the VAR. /AS
