Week 42, call 4 of 5
La Louvière trail 1-3 with a quarter of an hour left. Their attacker goes down in the box after a Club Brugge defender touches him. The referee waits a moment, then points to the spot. The VAR calls him to the screen: the replay shows only a slight touch.
- Penalty: any contact in the box is a foul
- Penalty and a yellow card for the defender
- No penalty: a slight touch is not a foul. Dropped ball to the goalkeeper Right call
- No penalty, yellow card for the attacker for diving
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Contact alone is not a foul: it has to be careless, reckless or worse. A slight touch is nothing, so the referee changed his decision at the screen. Because he had already stopped play, the game restarted with a dropped ball for the goalkeeper.