The VAR will not review incidents outside of the four match-changing situations: goals; penalty decisions; direct red-card incidents; and mistaken identity.

It cannot review any yellow cards or second yellow cards leading to a red, and it cannot review any free-kick offense outside the box, unless it is a red-card offense or if it leads to a goal or a penalty. VAR cannot review a yellow card, but it can lead to one.

If a referee initially awards a penalty, only to review the incident and ascertain that the player made a meal out of it, he may decide to book him for diving. If a referee decides to give a red for a dangerous tackle only to review the monitor and deem it worthy of merely a caution, he can do so.