Statto
Free Kick Specialist
Doesn't VAR check the shirts of the teams too?If you can find footage of Andras Schäfer of Union Berlin‘s dismissal on Friday evening against VfB Stuttgart, you will see it was a very similar offence - studs up, uncontrolled, and had he properly connected, a potential leg-breaker.
However in this case, Robert Schröder, the Referee, correctly issued a straight-red card - a decision that was confirmed by the VAR (Dr. Felix Brych, one of Germany‘s top officials).
If the laws of the game truly should apply internationally, I cannot see why one offence is a Red card, and the other, passed-off as merely a booking.