Australia fell 2-1 to Les Bleus in the opening match of group C.

World Cup history was made when the VAR was used for the first time awarding a penalty against Josh Risdon for clipping Antoine Griezmann in the second-half.

Socceroos boss Bert van Marwijk said yesterday that referee Andres Cunha did not look confident with his body language when the VAR intervened.

The technology was a controversial talking point in the A-League last season with many questioning what defined a ‘clear and obvious error’.

Jedinak said the squad was just looking to move on, but admitted he was frustrated.

“The fact that the play had kept going a bit was probably the strangest thing I encountered,” Jedinak said in Kazan on Sunday.

“They’re within their rights to do that. We have to accept it and move forward as harsh as it may be.

“It’s here and it’s here to stay. People are going to debate that decision, they could debate it for as long as we’re here and beyond. It is what it is now and we have to move forward.

“I don’t know what to say. This is going to be debated for a very long time. We can’t change that now, the score says 2-1, a penalty to Griezmann and a yellow card to Josh Risdon. It is what it is.”

Many Aussie fans were impressed with the team’s performance despite the loss and now the Socceroos turn to Denmark on Thursday in Samara.

Jedinak brought in the squad for a pep talk post-match and the skipper said the team needed to remain upbeat.

“It’s something I thought we needed after being so fresh in the mind,” he said.

“Seeing the disappointment on everybody and knowing what effort we gave… (you can) be disappointed, that goes without saying, let it hurt, but know we did a lot of good things in this game.

“If we continue to do that from that point right up until whenever we leave the tournament, we would’ve shown some really good things from ourselves.

“We weren’t that far off yesterday and you just have to keep stressing that to the group and everyone understood that.

“We set out to impose ourselves in the game and I thought we did that. We restricted them to a few opportunities.

“You just felt they were starting to run out of ideas, but you always knew they had a threat all over the pitch.”