Marino Pušić: "VAR is very good"

Marino Pushic, Shakhtar's head coach, likes the VAR system very much, as he said at a press conference after the last Ukrainian league match.

- "VAR is very good. We all strive for more clarity and honesty in football, but technology is not the only solution. I think it's good that there is VAR, but if you have VAR, the decision is still made by a human being. It is an interpretation of the situation, so the result is not always perfect, I understand that. Sometimes I don't quite agree with this interpretation either, but I think it's very good to have VAR, the system helps to re-watch episodes in any case. But again, this is the referee's version, only now they can really see the details in slow motion.

But I have to say something about the VAR: it would be more useful if the VAR had someone who really understands the situation on the pitch, because if you stop the VAR at some point, the episode can look terrible, but if you really understand the situation, you watch it again, you see that there is not such a big problem. I think it's a useful system, it's an interpretation, and I hope that in the future it will be clearer and better. That's why I have a good attitude towards the HAC.

And I would also like to have a goal scoring system, if possible, to see if the ball went over the line, if there was a goal, etc. I think all these things help football to be a transparent game. And I'll tell you one thing I wanted to have is absolutely clear game time, so that there are no more delays, no more stalling, no more long waits. No, one hundred percent clear playing time - 45 or 40 minutes, it doesn't matter, it would also help football a lot. So, I hope this will be the next step for football in the future," Pushich was quoted as saying by the official website of Donetsk.