On Twitter CNN posed a question about whether VAR has made football better?

La Liga expert Guillem Balague replied: "Mixed feelings. Adds drama. But I feel football is life and life is football.

"Life is full of mistakes and we grow by how we react to it. Same in football, technology shouldnt come to our rescue.

"Plus VAR doesn't take away controversies ]ask Iran, Morocco] or errors [ask Sweden].'

Spanish football commentator and BBC Sportsworld pundit Eduardo Alvarez believes VAR is on the right track.

"I think they're getting most decisions right rather than wrong and overall the balance is positive," he said earlier on BBC Radio 5 Live. "People are over reacting."

Let's just take another look at that quote from Iran manager Carlos Queiroz about Cristiano Ronaldo avoiding a red card.

"You stop the game to VAR. There is an elbow. An elbow is a red card in the rules. In the rules, it doesn't say if it is Messi or Ronaldo."

Has he got a point here?

Surely VAR should mean no hiding and no protectionism even for the game's superstars?

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Marca took the same line as AS.

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Given how VAR helped Spain, the press there is very much pro-video technology today.

OK then.

Does VAR deserve all this moaning? Has it got an unfairly bad rep in some quarters?

Is it, in fact, making sure decisions are right - and making these big games fairer?

Let us know your thoughts.

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Mark Lawrenson
BBC football expert on BBC Radio 5 Live

A couple of decisions the ref made after viewing VAR beggared belief. How he can give a penalty against Cedric?

I seriously don’t know and that’s after viewing it four or five times. He's supposed to be 101% certain it’s right and I just don’t get it.

The referee made a decision straight away in both cases for Ronaldo and the handball and gets on with it, then he gets the message they're reviewing it, so he thinks ‘Crikey have I got it wrong?’

He feels the four people in the VAR room think he’s made a mistake and so views it in a different light.

It will eventually be very good for the game. But it puts refs under more pressure.

The referee wasn’t very good anyway. A bad referee is a bad referee.

However, Iran manager Carlos Queiroz said that "VAR is not going well", despite his side benefiting from the late spot-kick.

Queiroz was critical of the decision not to dismiss Ronaldo after he swung his arm into the face of defender Morteze Pouraliganji.

"You stop the game to VAR. There is an elbow," he said. "An elbow is a red card in the rules. In the rules, it doesn't say if it is [Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel] Messi or Ronaldo.

"The decisions must be clear for everybody. Everybody agrees that VAR is not going well. There are a lot of complaints.

"We asked Fifa for a clarification and they refused. We just want to know who is refereeing the game, who is taking decisions in the game. We have the right to know."

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Even though Portugal were questionably punished by VAR, manager Fernando Santos still believes the system "did its job".

"I wasn't concerned by the three decisions," he said. "It seemed like a normal thing in the match.

The referee did what he had to do. That's what we have to accept."

There you go I lasted one entry without mentioning VAR.

The debate is going nowhere. In fact, it keeps rearing up in new and unexpected permutations.

Have a look what our pundits made of it yesterday.