FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

[You Need a Thneed]

how was that not reviewed?

[Locke]

That is awful. Ghana got jobbed.

[DFO]

Weak AF. That has to get reviewed

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Herdman says in interviews that he puts 100% trust in the players to make decisions such as who will take the penalty. Sometimes it's who wants to take an who's not feeling it.

I disagree with that style. The less decision making that happens on the pitch, the better. If each player knows his role, then they focus on that role completely. Who takes in-swinging corners, who takes out-swinging corners. Who takes direct free kicks, who takes indirect. All these things should be decided, including the PK-taker.

Maybe Jonathan David was feeling it, but Davies has a bigger personality and overruled him? All of a sudden, there is tension.

Letting the players decide didn't work, and now that's extra pressure on Davies instead of Herdman who is supposed to be there to absorb pressure for his players. At the very least, he should have lied to the media and said I chose Davies to take it, the decision is on me.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Muta

How the F is that a penalty against Ronaldo, when the takedown of Laryea in the box yesterday was worse? C'mon FIFA, get your consistency in order.... geezus.

You can see that the standard to rescind a penalty is different than giving one. Because no matter how soft it looks, it's 'technically' a foul.
But to give a penalty, it seems to have to be more than that.

This one though it a mistake by Fischer. Even Ronaldo was surprised. He thought he would get carded!

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Locke

That is awful. Ghana got jobbed.

FIFA can't have Messi and Ronaldo miss R16, come now.

[Bagor]

This is exactly why the refs should hold back on making the call on the pitch and use VAR.

[Bagor]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

how was that not reviewed?

Because as bs a call as it was you can't call it as a clear and obvious error.

[dieHARDflameZ]

That was an embarrassing dive by Ronaldo and the fact that they didn’t even review it is worse. He was looking for that the entire way.

That’s the exact reason I have never been a fan of Ronaldo. He’s extremely talented but a complete embarrassment to the game.

[SuperMatt18]

The call on the field being penalty makes that tough to overturn since there was contact.

But doesn’t change that VAR should have called the Laryea play a penalty yesterday, that was a miss.

[FLAMESRULE]

Karma for Ghana

[MillerTime GFG]

Good!!

[SuperMatt18]

Shambolic defending from Portugal…wow

[Swift]

Good for Ghana, go on!

[GirlySports]

woo!

[SuperMatt18]

Oof how do you let that pass get through you

[You Need a Thneed]

Crap.

[SuperMatt18]

Leao has been amazing for AC Milan and I’m surprised he wasn’t starting.

Essential to their strong season last year

[MillerTime GFG]

Well at least the ronaldo dive isn't what gave them the W now.

[CroFlames]

Ronaldo only player to score a goal in 5 World Cups