@falseninegh True, but if you already know you're through and you have to expect that there will be a situation where you need to play aggressive, you might as well give it a try in that game. Also, if you think you need two DMs for most games isn't it sort of a risk to play all of them?
@theyawofosu It isn't just the decisions being made, it is also the coverage which has a huge effect. Ghana is hardly discussed by the broadcast team. At halftime, they talk to five pundits and they all say what they think England is doing wrong or what they should do differently.
@_owurakuampofo I have seen this point come up, but it is so clear-cut a penalty that nobody can be blamed except for VAR. All of the noise should be about how this became essentially a home game for England and how that affected the outcome across these incidents.
@Muftawu_Nabila For the missed penalty call it just seems like they thought it was going to go over better to make no call when it is about a clear a penalty as you can have. Very weak.
@Scott_Geelan@D_BMed Do you have any sense of why he has fallen off a little? Seemed to me like he was thriving and then injured or affected by the rise of Ernest Poku?