๐ Heartbreak to end the tournament, but history made.
๐ญ๐ท Ivan Periลกiฤ is officially Croatiaโs all-time leading scorer in World Cup history with 7 goals.
Some people don't seem to understand why everyone is so outraged about the ๐ญ๐ท Croatia vs. Portugal ๐ต๐น robbery, so let me explain.
It's precisely because multiple things that would have lifted the offside were ignored, multiple things were handled differently than usual, and several suspicious details are present on top of it all.
So it's both the factually false detection of a touch that wasn't there, AND the way it was handled, which raises even more suspicion:
1. Even if Matanoviฤ's head ๐คฏ touched the ball, it didn't change the trajectory -> no offside
2. Even if Matanoviฤ's hair ๐โโ๏ธ touched the ball, hair is excluded in the offside rulebook -> no offside
3. Even if he did touch it with force, Veiga still went for the ball deliberately -> no offside
4. Offside is normally never checked at the screen by the main ref. Normally the VAR sees Veiga's header on the first replay, says "ah, Portugal touched it, no offside," and that's the end of it.
5. No change of trajectory is visible on the ball. Instead of blindly trusting a questionable chip inside the ball, the ref could have trusted his own eyes -> goal stands
6. Letting a minuscule alleged touch that didn't affect the ball overturn one of the craziest goals in World Cup history is suspicious in and of itself. It hints at an agenda or bias by the refs and VAR.
7. The penalty given to Portugal was already a false decision.
8. FIFA using B-tier referees raises the suspicion that they're chosen deliberately: a ref without a big name is more likely to enforce the rules to the letter, out of fear that FIFA won't invite him (and pay him) at the next tournament. A big refereeing name would at least have the courage to decide by feel for the game.
9. Previous games where Ronaldo was already helped by the refereeing.
10. The observation that rules are applied far more strictly against small nations than against the big names.
11. Semi-automated offside tech was sold to us as eliminating human error. Instead, a sensor blip that nobody can see with their own eyes was used to overrule what everybody COULD see. If the technology can't be verified by the footage, the footage should win.
12.FIFA is visibly willing to trade away trust and raw emotion (nobody can celebrate a goal anymore before the check period is over, fans get fed up and stop watching because of this BS) in exchange for control over outcomes, because keeping the biggest names in the tournament as long as possible is what makes their commercial goals easily reachable.
Ivan Periลกiฤ vs Portugal:
90 minutes played
1 goal
1 shot
1 tackle
1 interception
4 clearances
1 recovery
5/9 duels won
1 last man tackle
22/25 accurate passes
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Hes playing star rifle positions and gets aks on CT side.
He got Hero AKs on t side.
There is literally not a single awper that gets that luxury.
Because every single other star awper has to share the team with a star rifler. S1mple electronic, Shiro, donk, monesy niko, now even kyousuke. Fallen Cold. Device, his entire team wanted resources.
While the star rifler positions are occupied by apex in vitality. And Apex gives them up every time zywoo asks. Or apex needs him to play there.
I doubt there has ever been a with more resources than zywoo, let alone a team that has in every position the best and everyone has solo round winning potential and 0 pressure to perform because there is always a next round where the 4 other players can win the round solo at any moment.
And this is just the stuff we see. Now imagine the info, the calls, the reads that he gets, are probably unmatched in history of cs. Rivaling prime Astralis.
This take of yours is mental and makes little to no sense.