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Originally Posted by Dan02
I agree the dutch were undisciplined but the ref was a moron, in the first ~20 he gave out 5 yellows, 3 to the dutch and 2 to spain, 3 of those were pretty damn weak, really only the 1 hard tackle by the dutch player and the boot to the chest by De Jong I think it was needed to be called.
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Well arguably those 2 you mention by the dutch could've been red cards, so it seemed to me he was giving yellows out to maintain some control of the game. There were a lot of late challenges at that point of the game.
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