Medi Yr

Life isn't measured in a time but in a moment..*Anak Kusnaedi Makmur I Suami Ulfah Faujiah & Ayah Ghaitsan Abdul Jabbar I Sangat mencintai roda dua*

[🅿 @finallyxpablo]

¿El puñetazo que le mete ese animal a Dani Olmo qué es? Estos salvajes deben recibir sanciones ejemplares. Son la peor calaña

[Nuel @LfcNuel]

🚨 CORRUPTION ALERT

SPAIN’S FIRST GOAL WAS LEGITIMATE BUT IT WAS CANCELLED FOR A FOUL FOR ARGENTINA.

YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE ARGENTINA PLAYER HOLDING MERINO AND THEN FAKING A DIVE WITHOUT ANY CONTACT.

FIFA IS A DISGRACE!!

[Medi Yr @fesoy]

@GlobalFC5 @DoddJayden it wasn't intentional like Dygne do to Yamal..😄 but Yamal get's a penalty..

[‏ْ @marklfcx]

Quaresma on the referee disallowing Egypt’s goal after a VAR review:

🗣️ “This is unbelievable. Egypt have been punished by a decision that will leave people talking for years. You work so hard to score on the biggest stage in football, and then it’s taken away after endless reviews. If that’s enough to cancel a goal, then we’re forgetting what football is supposed to be.”

“From what we’ve seen, Egypt will feel completely robbed. The referee has taken away one of the biggest moments in these players’ lives, and the frustration is impossible to ignore. Instead of celebrating a brilliant goal, they’re left wondering why the officials wanted to become the center of attention.”

“VAR was introduced to correct clear and obvious mistakes, not to search for tiny incidents until a goal disappears. Tonight, the officials have overshadowed the match. Egypt deserve answers, the fans deserve consistency, and football deserves better than another controversial decision dominating the headlines.”

[MatchReport @MatchReportH]

🚨🇦🇷🇪🇬 DIMITAR BERBATOV: “VAR WAS CREATED FOR NIGHTS LIKE THIS, AND IT FAILED EGYPT”

🗣️ “I have watched football long enough to know that controversy will always exist, but what I struggle to understand is how a match with so many major incidents can leave so many unanswered questions.

The biggest disappointment for me is VAR. We were told VAR would remove clear errors and bring more fairness to the game. Instead, after this match, the debates are even bigger than they would have been without it.

Egypt will look back at this game and feel deeply frustrated. They had a goal ruled out after a lengthy review. They had moments where they felt fouls were ignored. They had appeals that many expected VAR to at least examine more closely.

That is the problem. Fans can accept decisions they disagree with if they believe every incident has been judged equally. What they cannot accept is feeling that some situations receive more attention than others.

The match itself was fantastic, but instead of talking about football, we are talking about referees and VAR. That tells you everything.

For me, VAR failed its biggest test tonight. Not because every decision was necessarily wrong, but because it failed to convince people that justice was served.

Egypt’s disallowed goal will be debated. The incidents before Argentina’s winning goal will be debated. The consistency of the officiating will be debated.

When a match ends and millions of people are still asking the same questions hours later, that is not a success for VAR.

Football deserves transparency. Players deserve clarity. Supporters deserve explanations.

Tonight, Egypt leave the tournament feeling that key moments were taken away from them, and that is a terrible feeling for any nation.”

#ARGEGY

[Chief @Chiefofbridge]

🚨 Peter Drury Breaks Silence: Questionable Calls, Cancelled Goals & FIFA Favouritism – Has Football Become a Scripted Show?

🗣Peter Drury

“After years spent analyzing football matches and commentating on the game at the highest level, I can honestly say that what we witnessed today between Argentina and Egypt was unlike anything I’ve seen in my entire career.

How that was awarded as a penalty remains a complete mystery. The contact, if any, looked minimal at best, yet the decision stood. It’s becoming harder and harder to watch the sport without feeling that the beautiful game is slowly turning into something of a joke for millions of fans around the world. The officiating has been strangely “clean” almost suspiciously so yet it leaves serious questions about consistency and impartiality.

Then there was Egypt’s goal, ruled out for reasons that still aren’t entirely clear. Why was it disallowed? In the same match, when Argentina scored their decisive goal, there appeared to be a clear foul in the build-up that neither the referee nor VAR chose to review properly. These are the moments that make supporters feel the outcome is no longer decided purely on the pitch.

There’s a growing narrative out there and it’s hard to ignore that Lionel Messi is being protected as FIFA’s golden boy. With Cristiano Ronaldo no longer part of the international scene, some believe the powers that be are determined to keep Messi’s story alive for as long as possible because his presence still drives massive global interest and viewing figures. Whether that’s true or not, the pattern of decisions in key moments only fuels that conversation.

passion, and the unpredictable nature of who wins on any given day. But when decisions repeatedly go one way, when valid goals are chalked off and questionable ones are given, and when VAR seems to miss obvious incidents, it starts to feel like something else is at play. The game deserves better. Fans deserve transparency, consistency, and the simple belief that the result is earned not influenced.

These are the moments that test our love for the sport. And right now, that love is being stretched thin.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“

[José Ramón Fernández @joserra_espn]

Misma escena, 4 años después.

[MUFC Buzz™🥇 @MufcBuzzLive]

🚨 Thierry Henry on Argentina knocking Egypt out of the FIFA World Cup:

🗣️ “This one feels like outright daylight theft on the pitch.

I’m not questioning Argentina’s talent they’re stacked with elite players but they didn’t merit the victory tonight.

Egypt fought tooth and nail to establish that two-goal cushion. They showed real grit in defense, flair going forward, and fully deserved every bit of their advantage.

The game shifted because of the officiating, in my view. That early penalty for Argentina already looked questionable, and from then on, it seemed like every big call went against Egypt.

Those moments completely altered the flow and handed Argentina the lifeline they needed.

Egypt will be devastated leaving this competition. They came so close to pulling off what would have been one of their finest triumphs.

Football can be won through moments of genius or through disputed calls and right now, the refereeing decisions will be talked about just as much as the action on the field.”

[@FOXSports]

[SethOfficial @UTD_Seth001]

🚨Javier Zanetti on Argentina’s penalty against Egypt:

🗣️ “For me, that is never a penalty.

I’ve watched it several times, and I still don’t understand what the defender is supposed to do differently. There is minimal contact, both players are competing for the ball, and the Egyptian defender doesn’t make a reckless challenge. Football is becoming very dangerous when incidents like that are enough to decide matches.

The referee has to understand the context. This is the World Cup, not a training session. Every little touch inside the box cannot become a penalty. If that’s the standard now, defenders may as well stop tackling altogether because every attacker will be looking for the slightest contact.

I know people will say, ‘There was contact.’ Of course there was. Football is a contact sport. The question isn’t whether there was contact—the question is whether the contact was enough to bring the player down unfairly. In my opinion, it wasn’t. The attacker was already looking for the decision before the challenge was even completed.

I feel for Egypt because they had worked incredibly hard to stay organised against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. To see all that effort threatened by a decision like this is frustrating. These are the moments that leave players and supporters wondering whether football is rewarding good defending or simply rewarding players who know how to sell a situation.

I don’t like seeing games of this magnitude decided by soft penalties. Let the football decide the match. Let quality decide the match. Don’t let a decision like that become the biggest talking point.”

[Salah Updates @SalahUpdates]

🚨🚨🚨 🗣️ Oliver Khan:

“What happened in the Egypt vs. Argentina match was utterly disgraceful."

[Lemon @Lemonbryz]

🚨🎙️Roy Keane on Egypt’s Second Goal & the Earlier Disallowed Strike vs Argentina

🗣️ “There you go! Egypt break quick, Salah does the thing, slips it through and Zico just slots it first time — bang, bottom corner, job done. 2-0. Proper finish, proper technique. Even with all this Big Name favouritism and dodgy refereeing messing about, you can’t hide real quality like that. Egypt have been brilliant.

But that first one? Zico taps in another belter on the counter, looks clean as anything, and what do they do? VAR and Letexier jump in and bin it for some poxy little nudge in the build-up that wouldn’t even be a foul down the park. Too soft to chalk off a goal. Give me a break. They’re not even pretending anymore. On any other day those two goals stand and Egypt are laughing. But nah, can’t let the Big Names get embarrassed, can we? FIFA and this lot have their favourites sorted. Absolute joke. The game’s gone soft.”

[𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 @OTPipers]

🚨🎙️🗣️: Patrick Viera

“When we won the World Cup in 1998 it was free and fair with no favoritism, but as a player my self I can’t seem to understand the level of corruption going on and it makes the whole competition unpopular.

(@MatteoMoretto)

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Iker Casillas on the controversial officiating decisions in Egypt and Argentina game, Messi and Argentina are being favored:

“As a goalkeeper, I’ve always believed football should be decided by players, not by controversies that leave people talking about referees for days.

I watched Argentina against Egypt, and honestly, I understand why Egyptian fans are furious, what I don’t understand is the consistency.

Egypt scores a second goal. The ball is in the net. Then VAR starts digging deeper than an archaeological expedition. Suddenly we’re reviewing incidents from so far back in the move that it feels like the goal was disallowed by history itself.

Fine.

If that’s the standard, then apply that standard everywhere. Because when Egypt were screaming for penalties late in the game, where was that same energy? Where was that same determination to find the truth?

Where was that same microscopic attention to detail? That’s the question millions of people are asking. One moment receives a full criminal investigation. The other gets a missing-person report. And football fans notice these things.

People will say Argentina showed the mentality of champions. I agree,they fought until the end, they punished every mistake. But let’s stop pretending that the officiating didn’t become a major part of the story. The disallowed Egyptian goal changed the emotional temperature of the match.

Then came two penalty appeals, Two opportunities to prove consistency. Two opportunities to reassure everyone that the same rules applied to both teams.

Nothing.

No moment that convinced Egypt they had received equal treatment. Then Argentina score the winner. And that’s when the frustration exploded. The bench erupted, cards came out, Coaches lost control of their emotions. Not because Egypt were losing. Because they felt the game was slipping away through decisions they could not understand.

That’s the difference, Fans can accept defeat. What fans struggle to accept is uncertainty.

The feeling that one team’s actions are examined frame by frame while another team’s incidents are viewed at highway speed.

Football cannot survive on trust if supporters leave the stadium believing the standards changed depending on the shirt being worn.

Maybe Argentina still win if every decision goes Egypt’s way. Maybe they don’t. We’ll never know. And that’s exactly why the debate will never die.

Because Egypt didn’t leave this World Cup talking about tactics. They didn’t leave talking about missed chances.

They left talking about a disallowed goal, ignored penalty appeals, VAR consistency, bookings on the bench, and a feeling that every time they climbed the mountain, somebody moved the finish line.

Argentina advance. Egypt go home. But the biggest winner tonight wasn’t football.

It was controversy.

And whenever controversy becomes the star of the show, the sport has failed the people who love it.”

[Inside Reality Football @RealityLfc]

🚨Wayne Rooney on the false penalty against Egypt vs Argentina.

🗣️“It’s really disappointing to see the VAR keep mute on the decision there, in a crucial game like this and there’s still favorites in the game.”

“A lot of Argentine and Lionel Messi fans won’t like what I’m saying but that’s the fact to be discussed here in today’s game.”

“This shouldn’t have been a penalty but the world and every Egyptian fan is glad after the miss. It’s just so bad to see this happen in to the African nations, especially in a decisive game like this.”

[DREN!! @City_Dren]

🚨 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.

[Inside Reality Football @RealityLfc]

🚨Paul Scholes on Mo Salah and Egypt being eliminated by Argentina.

🗣️“This is the greatest robbery in football history I’ve ever witnessed, from the beginning of the game till the end there wasn’t any favorable decision for the Egyptian national team. You don’t have to bring in excuses for such controversial decisions in the end.”

“It’s sad and you can see how emotional and heartbreaking the fans look after the game, it’s not what we expected from the game today. A false penalty and many other decisions that isn’t meant to be taken, we just have to admit the fact that it was rigged and there’s nothing we can do about this.”

“It’s Lionel Messi and we all know why this happened today against the Egyptian team, this wasn’t how football is supposed to be played but they ruin everything with their favorite decisions.”

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

Argentina are cheats. FIFA is rigging the tournament for Messi. Look at all these decisions

[Teago Oliveira @teagoliveira]

A fifa vai ter que remover isso 350 milhoes de vezes

[Darren @MUFCDarren_]

🚨 José Mourinho on Argentina vs. Egypt:

“This is daylight robbery. It’s a shame what football is becoming. How do you let the play continue, allow the goal to be scored, and only then decide to go back and cancel it? If there was a foul, stop the game immediately. Don’t wait until after the goal.

Then I ask another question—why wasn’t Argentina’s first goal reviewed with the same attention when it looked very close to offside? Why was every incident involving Argentina checked, while Egypt didn’t seem to get the same treatment?

VAR is supposed to bring fairness, not confusion. Today, it looked like every important decision went in Argentina’s favour. Football deserves better.”