Men's Football FIFA World Cup 2022

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19 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

Can't say for the rest, but the goal actually ruined the life of the Bulgarian assistant referee. People stopped talking to him then, the BG Football Union allegedly asked him to pay to continue refereeing. At his funeral in 2017 only a small group of people went and there was no actual acknowledgement by the football union, even though he was an actual player before that. He was forgotten by everyone after that match. He has also said, that he saw the hand in real time, but the rules at that time were, that the assistants can't signal or communicate with the head referee unless directly asked by him.   

If I'm not mistaken, the main ref was tunisian and auctioned the match ball for 2 million dollars. 

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1 hour ago, Vic Liu said:

I think Japan will advance for sure and Iran is also likely to advance against USA if they are no more disrupted by non-football related factors. Korea is weaker than I expect on first game. Still I hope at least 2 but hopefully 3 AFC teams will advance.

Japan is in a good situation but if Germany beats Spain things will get very complicated for them

 

as for Iran, I believe we are still the underdog, we will lose badly the moment we forget that. those non-football related factors are still there. a former NT player got arrested few hours before the Wales match. and again all those keyboard warriors are blaming the current NT players for that (right now they are responsible for every bad thing in the world) but it seems after the total disaster of the first match they learned to only count on themselves.

 

they are good as long as they are ahead (or the score is tied) A total collapse is still very much possible if they concede the first goal.

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How on earth is that not immediately red

 

Edit: ok, maybe a bitless obvious, but at the very least worth a good VAR check

Edited November 26, 2022 by heywoodu

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Finally some 0-0

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Just now I noticed Mbappe was asking for a card even before he stopped rolling. It was luckily out of fashion for a while, but seems to be making a very annoying comeback. Referees really need to start giving cards to players who ask for them.

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That last shot of Mbappe stopped by Giroud´s head says it all

 

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Alireza Faghani is chosen as referee for the high-risk vs game

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Mbappe scores 1-0 for roosters.

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Mbappé 

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Denmark hits back with Christensen header. 1-1.