Mat Ryan feels Australia were hard done by as VAR decision proved costly

• Van Marwijk inferred France won as referee caved into pressure
• Didier Deschamps: ‘I am not going to complain about VAR’

Mat Ryan led Australia’s complaints after VAR made its first mark on a World Cup in their 2-1 defeat by France. “I feel hard done by,” the goalkeeper said. “I don’t feel we were beaten by a better team but almost by technology a little bit.”

Australia’s manager, Bert van Marwijk, was also outspoken, inferring that the referee caved in to pressure when consulting a replay on the edge of the pitch. The Uruguayan official Andrés Cunha reversed his original reaction that Josh Risdon’s challenge on Antoine Griezmann was not worthy of a penalty, after being guided to check the incident by the video assistant referee Mauro Vigliano.

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