🚨🗣️ Elliot Anderson on the physical nature of the game and the early incident with Enzo Fernández:
"To be completely honest, the first ten minutes were an absolute blur. I remember turning to protect the ball, and the next thing I know, I felt a massive knock on the back of my head from Enzo. Everything went dark, and I was completely out for a few seconds.
When I finally came to, the medical staff were asking me if I knew where I was. But it’s a World Cup semi-final, you don't come off the pitch unless your legs are broken. You just keep fighting. But when you look back at that moment... how a player can intentionally strike someone in the back of the head and only get a verbal warning, I will never understand. It immediately set the tone for the refereeing for the rest of the night. We came out here expecting a football match, but it felt like they were allowed to play by a completely different set of rules."
🚨 Argentina in their last 13 matches:
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: Penalty awarded
🇲🇽 Mexico: —
🇵🇱 Poland: Penalty awarded
🇦🇺 Australia: —
🇳🇱 Netherlands: Penalty awarded, red card avoided, and opponent sent off
🇭🇷 Croatia: Penalty awarded
🇫🇷 France: Penalty awarded and an irregular goal
🇩🇿 Algeria: Messi spared a red card
🇦🇹 Austria: Penalty awarded
🇯🇴 Jordan: Penalty awarded
🇨🇻 Cape Verde: Irregular goal
🇪🇬 Egypt: Penalty awarded, opponent's goal disallowed, offside goal allowed, and penalty not awarded to the opponent
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Opponent sent off
Argentina keep getting favorable call after favorable call. 🇦🇷🤑
🚨 José Mourinho on the overturned red card for Folarin Balogun:
“Why? Because they’re the hosts? What is this nonsense? In football, these decisions must be the same for everyone. If the red card is a red card, it stays a red card.
People don’t like to admit it, but sometimes where you come from changes how you’re treated. Tell me honestly—does that decision get overturned if the player represents Ghana or Paraguay? I don’t think so. The rules should be the same for every nation.”
🚨🇩🇪 BREAKING: Jürgen Klopp as new Germany head coach, here we go! 💥
Klopp has accepted to take over; long term contract details, project and RB Group exit still under discussion, but he will be the new head coach.
RB considered Glasner as replacement but he signs at #NFFC.
Klopp is back.
🚨🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimović on Fox Sports:
They overturned Cristiano's 3 match suspension. They didn't send off 2 Portugal players against DR Congo for Red card offense.
Few days ago They disallowed a legitimate Colombia winning goal and now they disallowed a Croatia's goal that could have won them the match.
Why is FIFA giving Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal so much favoritism?