The amount of penalties you'd see on a regular season in any league really if that were the case would be nauseating.
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Same shit was given against Egypt earlier. Refs are cracking under the pressure.
Uncanny resemblance! loolSo, the statue of legend was correct!!!
It's not that he could have avoided it if he did it intentionally he should have been booked, but it was an accident so the ref only gave the foul.
No honestly mate, I did not even know this till the commentator brought it up during the match. he is in the top 9 worldwide goalkeepers. this is not a joke and i knew shit about iran before the wk.
That's not correct, I didn't saw the actual penalty, but it never worked this way. It needs to have intention in blocking the ball, that's why when the had/arm is not separated from the body is never a penalty. Is terribly subjective norm, so is something that VAR will never truly fix.
(oh you mean for yellow cards? I think is correct, yeah, but is not the normal, most referees don't do it)
Enrique Cáceres should never referee at this level again. Iran Portugal game was a total mess. So much time wasted checking VAR for things that shouldn't of even considered to be given in the first place. Just glad that I never have to see that awful team for the rest of the tournament now. But VAR in general I've been alright with before that game. Generally been on point, albeit a bit of a long turnaround at times, with a competent ref anyway.
VAR done right is necessary. But VAR on Ronaldo's foul and the penalty were a joke.
So now that Portugal has the "harder" route, what will be the complaints when we continue to move on again?
So now that Portugal has the "harder" route, what will be the complaints when we continue to move on again?
God forbid some countries get happy and are able to compete fairly against the biggest teams once every 4 years!
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but this World Cup wasn't expanded to include Iran & Morocco, that last expansion was to 32 teams in 1998, so Iran & Morocco got here on their own steam in the format that has existed for 20 years.
Also, this is Iran's and Morocco's fifth World Cup appearances; they could be considered regulars, not 'shitty teams'. It's pretty insulting to lump them in with the sort of teams that will sneak into the 2026 World Cup due to the expansion.
Right. Not sure i am defending anything,and i do think we're playing a little better than in the Euro. With this coach i think there's not much we can do.
He always backs off once we score,always. When we played nice football we never won shit,now we play bad we win.
As for this game,Iran didn't do shit the whole game,Ronaldo was a red card and no fucking way that's a penalty.
It's the rules, they changed it while back. Handball doesn't have to be deliberate. It's a shit rule but a rule
Posted it in the first OT, but as a friendly reminder to all in here, he's got a haunted, more vacuous one now.So, the statue of legend was correct!!!
Most players that jump to head the ball extend their arms a bit for leverage. What was unnatural about that Portuguese player's arm position?
hope you find it in your heart to fight for poor papua nova guine after they still fail to qualify with the 48 teams format. not enough, we'll need 64! everyone deserves the joy of being gifted a world cup qualification because apparently it means fucking nothing and qualifiers are just an elaborate joke
champions league is club football and nowhere near the importance of a world cup no matter how much europeans try to delude themselves
Not sure why people complain about "not regular" WC teams. Morocco and Iran probably played much better football than Argentina....
Europeans fully well know world cup is the most importance, but theres no doubt champions league is the second highest profile tournament in the world.
iran has no problems getting into the world cup in its current format, don't confuse them with teams who will benefit from the new format
pretending Iran is a "not regular" like Uganda and Uzbekistan is the problem here
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Iran & Morocco are regulars though.
Exactly.
VAR is the most important advancement in the history of football. If uefa doesn't implement it is cause they knew it's a tool that wants to bring balance to the game. I'm from Portugal, we have a league where var already exists and its much more active that in the wc. And it works. Yes, it makes bad decisions sometimes but it reduces the error. The amount of crucial mistakes by the ref in a game are smaller. Who cares if the game takes a bit more time. You either want the game to be honest or dishonest. Also offside goals cease to exist, which fucking plagued the game. You let the game run, if its a goal you check if its offside. It's that simple.
Champions League is more important to football fans. World Cup is too random.
I prefer to call them 'novelty' teams. Full of wacky strangers who don't know the rules and cry when they lose (despite not actively trying to win).
I was there when Spain and Italy got royally shafted by horrible refereeing during the 2002 WC (perhaps non coincidentally both got bad calls in favor of host country SK).
VAR has to stay but it needs refinements.
Uganda wouldn't make it in the new format either. More like Ghana, Cameroon and Ivory Coast. Along with the African squads already in
I don't even know how many African teams would make it in the new format anyways maybe only one of those teams mentioned would make it.
hmmm don't know if actual troll or just plainly misinformed.
I'll go with misinformed for your sake
Didn't Iran and Morocco had like 5 participations? I wouldn't call them "regulars"
Why not? i stand in my statement that the expanded world cup it's a good thing and you will too when the time comes.
Not lumping them in the same category, Morocco and Iran stood they ground against these powerhouses even when nobody thought they could. That was what i was trying to say.
It's more insulting wanting some nations to be out and deny them of the joy of being in a world cup (Panama's example) just because you , the elite athletes of ERA think other countries are not up to your standards.
Any Barca fan here? The only way to describe the feeling that we had in the last 15 minutes for non-Iranians is that historical game with PSG that we won 6-1.
It could've been that great if it was a win instead of a damn draw. That's the reason that we're upset right now.
Anyway that was hell of a ride for us. See y'all in Qatar.
It could've been that great if it was a win instead of a damn draw. That's the reason that we're upset right now.
Anyway that was hell of a ride for us. See y'all in Qatar.
But Iran and Morocco have qualified 5 times for the World Cup...
People can go on about the "diversity" or whatever but let's not pretend Uzbekistan and the likes are competitive teams.
Didn't they change something about the Asian qualifiers at some point? Iran's been in most of the tournaments in the past 20 years I think. Not sure why they weren't regulars before.
morocco wasn't in for 20 years, but iran was at 2006 and 2014
oh man, this was me for a minute
Uganda literally would have made it this year if there were 48 teams, over Ghana and Cameroon at least.
What they're proposing is 9 teams for Africa, 8 for Asia, 6 each for Concacaf & Conmebol, 1 for Oceania, 16 for Europe and 2 from cross-confederation playoffs. So, there'd be 4 more African teams, 3-4 more Asian teams, but only 1-2 more South American and 3 more European.
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