Argentina and Mexico benefited from the most favorable VAR decisions with four overturned calls each, while Paraguay and Croatia suffered the most negative outcomes with three rulings against them.
Klein explained that the metric reflects instances where video reviews corrected on-field human errors rather than intentional favoritism.
"They are topping this list because the referees missed fouls that the VAR thought should have been fouls," he said.
Klein concluded that while statistics show patterns of errors, they do not entirely dispel fan controversies.
"But this doesn't really help the counter-narrative that referees are not biased toward Argentina," he said.
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