Pierluigi Collina, widely considered the greatest referee in football history, comments on the disallowed Egypt goal by VAR:
"I assure you that if it had been Argentina's goal, it would have stood.
▪️If this had happened in the English Premier League, La Liga, or Serie A, it would have stood even after a VAR review.
▪️This tournament has recently seen many inconsistencies! VAR and the referee should have consulted them; there were two clear penalties for Egypt before Argentina's third goal!
▪️The correct score is 3-2 for Egypt, not the other way around.
▪️The referee of the Egypt-Argentina match should be ashamed of himself."
🚨 Virgil van Dijk on the controversy during the Egypt vs Argentina game:
🗣️: “I watched the game and, honestly, all I could do was laugh because it brought back memories from the 2022 World Cup. We went through something very similar, but back then it felt like we were the only ones talking about it.
This time, the Egypt players and their coach spoke out immediately, and I’m actually glad they did. Sometimes people only pay attention when more voices are involved.
Whether you support Egypt or Argentina doesn’t matter. Football should always be decided by what happens on the pitch, not by controversies that leave everyone questioning the result. Hopefully this opens people’s eyes because the whole football world saw what happened.”
🇪🇬🇦🇷Security was seen checking Egyptian fans while not searching Argentine fans during today’s Egypt vs Argentina match.
FIFA has shown us how corrupt they are.
🚨🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimović: "I don't understand how Argentina always gets favoured by FIFA, they clearly disallowed a legal goal of Egypt and they gave Argentina 8 Penalties in the last 12 World Cup games, I don't understand why the other countries are letting it happen".
🚨 Didier Drogba Blasts VAR Decision in Egypt vs Argentina:
I finally believe Argentina always find the easiest route to progress in the World Cup, and VAR made it obvious tonight.
Thank God VAR didn’t exist in our era. Look at the beautiful run from Hassan and Salah to create that chance - where was the referee then? Was the whistle missing from his hands? He only woke up after they scored.
You could see the reaction from FIFA President Gianni Infantino. I guess he wished he could reverse the second goal by Zizo.
The funny thing is that some fans are already saying Argentina is playing in the African Cup of Nations because they’ve faced mostly African teams since the start of the tournament. But I think yes, they have - and they’re experiencing it well, because Egypt won tonight for me.
Sometimes I blame African teams for not holding onto their leads until the final whistle, but how can they when the referee and VAR always seem to be against them?
We Africans deserve better.