Captain of Croatia came out and said the opponents have been heavily favoured with an offside call and penalty - Everyone ignored.
Messi took a quick Free kick and got fouls outside the box - Rigged.
🚨🗣️ 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?
Monterrey built its World Cup stadium out of steel because the city got rich on steel. Then they shaped it like a brewing still, a nod to the breweries the city was also built on.
Start with the roof. It reaches 55 meters out over the seats, about the length of an Olympic pool, and holds itself up with no columns underneath. The whole roof rests on a three-legged steel frame, so nothing blocks the view from a single seat.
That roof is not even on both sides, and the lopsided shape was on purpose. The architects at Populous, the firm behind Wembley and Tottenham's stadium, dropped the height from about 46 meters on one side down to 32 on the other. The low side opens a clear view of Cerro de la Silla, the saddle-shaped mountain that sits behind the city. They angled the whole bowl around keeping that peak in view during the game.
Inside, the stands are tilted at 34 degrees, one of the steepest angles in Mexican football. The front row sits 9 meters from the grass. At the club's old ground, fans were stuck 27 meters back, so the new design cut that gap by roughly two-thirds and dropped 53,500 people right on top of the action.
Monterrey hits 40 degrees Celsius in summer, around 104 Fahrenheit, and the building cools itself with barely any air conditioning. The steel facade has angled slots cut into it that fans nicknamed gills. They catch the breeze and push it through the bowl while hot air rises and slips out the top. More than a third of the surrounding land is left as green space that soaks up rainwater and filters it back into the groundwater under the city. It became the first football stadium in North America to earn LEED Silver, a green-building rating that scores energy and water efficiency.
The whole thing cost around 200 million dollars and ran entirely on private money. FEMSA, the beverage company that owns the club, paid for all of it with no public funding, which made it the most expensive stadium ever built in Mexico at the time. Ground broke in 2011, the doors opened in 2015, and the sheer scale of the metal earned a nickname that stuck: El Gigante de Acero, the Steel Giant.
Most stadiums close themselves off from what is around them. Monterrey did the reverse, and the result is a mountain framed in the open end of the bowl, in plain view above the stands while a World Cup match plays out below.
De eso se trata el Mundial 🥹🇲🇽
Japones rompió a llorar tras la eliminación de su país, pero de inmediato, un grupo de brasileños lo fueron a consolar y los mexicanos lo pusieron a volar 🤝🫰🏻
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Team takes a knee with 1 minute left to play for OT. Very next play, they decide "screw it" and throw a Hail Mary. Touchdown
8 seconds left. Other team gets it back. Throws up a Hail Mary. Touchdown
That's what this match was like
Portugal could have faced Ghana (RO32) and Iran (RO16) in the knockout stages but they could only defeat Uzbekistan in their group, but certain fans will say it’s rigged for Messi 😭