Really? I mean it is Uruguay. I thought they have tamed it down because they are confident they can win.
At this point of this game, I would expect them to have four players cautioned and four handbags incidents. And there goes their first one.
This isn’t a game of tiddlywinks.
Ok. I missed him walking to the spot.
He still didn’t blow the whistle or at least I can’t hear it definitively. He raised the whistle to his mouth and was obviously calling the foul. It was fucked up and the ref should be sent back down to U6 games, but the ball was in the net before he could blow the play dead. I think that technically gives him cover to play advantage until that point.
I didn’t hear the whistle blow. It looked like he was going to call the penalty and then saw the ball fall to the Colombian player. It was advantage with weird hand signs.
Panama should have never stopped playing. That’s 100% on them.
Something that was posted a couple of pages back that still pisses me off.
If they really had the chance to get Bielsa and didn’t hire him because of the language barrier, we should literally behead everyone involved. 75% of the players speak Spanish already and the rest should have a soccer functional level of fluency.
Which is why CBs are taught from the age of 8 to either grab/fall on the ball or kick it to row Z in that scenario. When the whistle blows, you do whatever it takes to ensure the attack stops and your defense gets set.
Richards has to grab the ball and then go protest the foul/card.
I don’t know in what world anyone would think we were the better team going in.
I also don’t know in what world we shouldn’t beat Panama playing with 10 men for 90 minutes.
Come on Suarez. Go score for the coup de gras and bite off Greggs head on the way out of the stadium.