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Originally Posted by nemanja2306
I agree with you. I feel the Germans were better because they controlled the possesion more. Also, it's not that they were better, it's just us having a weak menatlity. Were we scared to attack or what, I don't know. All I know is they allowed the Germans to attack even with 10 men. but that said, our win was not undeserved because we too created good chances and could and should have scored couple of more (Jovanovic post, Zigic crossbar). As for the red card, it was deserved, you can't just go on tackling people from behind. And while I might see it, why you think the ref played for us, you have to remember he also very easily handed out yellow cards to us as well. Not to mention the penalty given to the Germans, which was a penalty though. Not a great reffed game but not that horrible either.
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The penalty was a penalty. There was zero subjectivity there, thats the easiest call a ref will make in their entire career. He had no choice but to give that, and the Germans should have put it away. Even so, that should have been a red to Vidic.
The 'tackling from behind' on Klose was soft. The first one especially, but he handed those out too easily, to both teams.
The one commentator said it best in my mind, Lahm got a legitimate yellow for a tackle and then later on made another perfectly clean tackle which the ref called a foul and the commentator says:
"This is when you know a referee has no control, when Lahm has to feel lucky to get to stay on the pitch and defend a free kick for making a perfectly clean tackle."
It went both ways, but you cant just keep handing out yellows, there has to be control without immediate and severe punishment, 'hey, that was a foul, thats the second time you've done it, do it again and I'll card you again.'
He did it with Schweinsteiger, when he booked him, he gave him 2 or 3 warnings, then he booked him for not heeding them. My issue is that Klose got nothing, no leniency at all and it changed the outcome of the game, potentially the tournament as you suspend one of Germany's best goal scorers.