Yes. It looked like a clear handball with the defender's arm raised. Also, the handball was 30-35 seconds before the goal, not two minutes. I watched video. Still, a pretty preposterous situation, but perfectly in line with VAR rules as currently set forth. They cannot stop play. They will always be able to review a possible PK at the next natural stoppage of play. In this case, that was a goal scored by the other team. Anyone who supports VAR has to accept this. They might change the rule, but I'm not sure there are great options:
- add a time limit -- as I said, this was about 30 seconds
- allow the officials to stop ongoing play
- add a special rule that says if the next stoppage is a goal, then no review
You can easily imagine situations where people scream bloody murder when those rules apply
"so a clear PK can't get reviewed because open play goes on too long?"
"the refs stopped play and killed our momentum for a VAR review that didn't even change anything"
"so you can commit a PK foul, then get a double bonus by scoring first and avoid review; that's just great"
The next ridiculous iteration of this will be that a team should be awarded a PK but are not, and the next stoppage is when that same team scores a goal. VAR will wipe out the goal they scored, and they miss the PK.