Lahoz should be taken to task, but he is a known commodity. Anybody that watches La Liga, knows the match will be like a telenovela - and most of the players from both sides have experience with him.
The fact that he didn’t control the game from the get go is the problem. Call a tight game at the beginning, throw a card or two when things start to go - players adapt. When you let shit get too far, you end up with what you get today. Messi deserved a yellow for the handball in the first half. But like Napoleon said, he won’t be telling the ref he shits in his mothers milk at 9+ mins into second half stoppage. As a general rule, any ref should hand Otamendi a caution around minute 25 for good measure. Paredes deserved two yellows for his bull shit. At least 4 Dutch subs should have been sent off for going onto the field. None of that happens and this is what you get. That being said, players just want consistency even if it’s shit. The result is the same and the players decided the game.
I get pissed off at children acting like shitbags in public, but they aren’t the problem. They act how they are allowed to act.
Any resulting karma coming to the Argentines would be deserved, of course. The are Argentines.