FIFA insists Japan’s second goal in their shock World Cup victory over Spain was legitimate “on the evidence available” and added some of the images shared online were “misleading”.
FIFA published two posts on its official Twitter account. “Japan’s second goal in their 2-1 win over Spain was checked by VAR to determine if the ball had gone out of play,” the first read. “The video match officials used the goal line camera images to check if the ball was still partially on the line or not.” A second post added: “Other cameras may offer misleading images but, on the evidence available, the whole of the ball was not out of play.” The second post showed how a ball could appear to be wholly behind the line and therefore out of play from one angle, but when viewed from above part of the ball was still hanging over the line.
Source: FIFA