I'm always an advocate of those cynical challenges being red. If the orange card existed, it would have been orange. But it was closer to a red than a yellow.
Yes it was cynical but that was dangerous. Allan was out of control and was lucky he didn't make much contact with Saint-Maximin.
I think there's an argument for those sorts of fouls to be a red card but as it stands there's no way that's a clear and obvious error in my opinion. I feel a good way to judge is how upset the opposite team would have been had it not been given and I doubt it would have even got a mention tbh. When did they stop doing the real time only thing btw? Bulk of ref saw there was slow mo / freezeframes.
Oh I'm with you that VAR shouldn't have overturned it. Wasn't a bad onfield decision, should have stayed with the yellow he gave. But generally speaking, the laws need to tighten up so that cynical fouls are red as standard.
