Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands

[allen]

Qatar should've had a pen there really. Incredibly clumsy challenge - got anyway with that.

I'm genuinely amazed they weren't awarded that.

FIFA haven't needed much encouragement to do them a favour in the past.

 

[ToffeeTim]

100% not a pen

Extremely soft but some refs give those. I'm glad it wasn't given but a bit surprised

 

[Nymzee]

I mean he goes at force into the back of him, certainly more than enough contact for the guy to lose his balance ?‍

Watch the attackers right leg and then tell me it's not a dive.

 

[Papa Shango]

I can tell which of you have played football and which haven't by your view of that not given pen.

If you have not had some snide running into you and claiming a foul have you ever even truely played football?

As an ..."industrial" defender, it used to do my head in!

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Watch the attackers right leg and then tell me it's not a dive.

He's not been tripped though, he's been knocked over from the back. As I said - clumsy.

 

[Nymzee]

He's not been tripped though, he's been knocked over from the back. As I said - clumsy.

Yeh and the reason he's been knocked over is because he has lunged across him for the contact. The attacker had zero intention of striking that ball ergo dive.

 

[Papa Shango]

I mean he goes at force into the back of him, certainly more than enough contact for the guy to lose his balance ?‍

Contact is not a foul.

If a player puposely moves his body and his whole trajectory to instigate contact it's not a foul. The defender literally has nowhere to go when he does that, the only way contact is not made is if the defender can magically teleport.

Which I assume he can't. I dunno, he may be able to, not seen enough of Senegal...

 

[toffee82]

Thought it was a good shout and it would have gone to VAR.

It was the contact across the thigh which, for me, makes it a pen.

You can't not give a pen cos the attacker is $hite.

 

[Nymzee]

If you have not had some snide running into you and claiming a foul have you ever even truely played football?

As an ..."industrial" defender, it used to do my head in!

I'd have fumed if someone tried that against me.

 

[Papa Shango]

I'd have fumed if someone tried that against me.

Yeah I would have got sent off for the reaction to the foul being given.

It's crap how much football has changed really. It's all so cynical. I cant get my head around a bloke playing in what will be his only world cup not taking a shot and going for glory. Imagine of Josimar for example went looking for contact in 86 instead of belting the ball into the back of the net.

 

[WA Toffee]

He wasn’t about to pull the trigger. He was more interested in getting bummed by the defender so he could win a pen.

His movement was blatantly weird and the ref saw straight through it.

Yep, it's the same thing Gerrard used to do quite often, suddenly move in front of the defender and slow down slightly and his momentum causes him to bundle you over.

The ref was completely correct

 

[Wizard]

Good header. Come on Senegal!

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Game over (if it wasn't already lol)

 

[TheBigIguana]

GD could mean a lot here

 

[Azza]

Great header.

Glad there is a worse team than Wales at this.