di tahun 2010, messi menangin ballon d’or walaupun bukan juara world cup, even dia 0 goal di world cup waktu itu. iniesta sama xavi yang punya andil besar bawa spanyol juara world cup kalah dari messi.
katanya messi menang karena dia cetak puluhan gol di level klub dan berhasil juara la liga sama copa del rey.
waktu itu narasinya: “world cup itu penting, tapi individu tetap yang utama.”
di tahun 2023 situasinya hampir persis terbalik. haaland cetak 52 gol dalam 53 pertandingan, bawa city treble. gila banget performa dia di musim itu.
posisinya mirip sama messi di 2010: dominasi klub yang gila walaupun tanpa trofi internasional besar tahun itu. tapi kali ini, messi lagi yang dapet ballon d’or karena dia menangin world cup.
tiba-tiba narasinya juga berubah jadi:
“world cup adalah segalanya. harus ada faktor internasional.”
kaga jelas wkwk
🚨 Roy Keane on Nico Williams disallowed goal against Argentina:
“I’ve just seen the biggest robbery of this World Cup. The ball comes into the box, nobody touches anybody, everyone goes up for it, then one Argentina player starts shouting. The next thing you know, two defenders are on the floor appealing,
Nico Williams has scored, and Emiliano Martinez … who wasn’t even touched… is somehow lying there as well asking for a foul.
The referee blows immediately. No VAR review. No replay. No check to see if there was actually any contact. Just disallowed. Apparently if enough Argentina players fall over at the same time, that’s now considered conclusive evidence.
If we’re being honest, Paredes shouldn’t even still be on the pitch after some of the tackles he’s made today. Yet somehow the only thing the referee managed to spot instantly was an invisible foul.”
Simeone has committed FIVE fouls in the opening 40 minutes of the game and hasn't been carded. Elliot Anderson committed 1 foul and got carded..
Make it make sense 🤦🏼♂️
🚨🗣️ 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."