Paolo Benedetti

[David @PedriFCB]

Hilo desmintiendo las 4 polémicas del partidos de Argentina

Empezamos con el tiro libre de Messi donde claramente se escucha que el árbitro pita en el segundo 11. Messi pregunta si ya pitó para posteriormente patear. https://t.co/hEM2L9h7PG

[Paolo Benedetti @pfbenedetti]

@juanludlow @LeonKrauze Exacto

[Paolo Benedetti @pfbenedetti]

@rikymoreno Es cierto. Por suerte para nosotros existe México.

[JustBizarreFooty | B @JBFootyX]

🚨🎙️ Thierry Henry on Portugal vs Croatia:

🗣️ “If you watched that match from start to finish, you saw exactly what was happening. The disallowed goal, the decisions, the way every 50-50 call seemed to go Portugal’s way, it leaves a lot of questions. The VAR and the referee looked unbelievably biased.”

“You cannot convince me that everything we witnessed was normal. It felt like there was a determination to keep Portugal in the competition because they don’t want Cristiano Ronaldo going home. At times, it almost looked as though the tournament had been rigged in Portugal’s favour. Football deserves transparency, not controversy.”

[Flux🥂 @FluxCFC]

🚨Pierluigi Collina on Portugal being awarded a penalty after the VAR review:

🗣️ “This is simply not a penalty — I’m stunned they’ve awarded it.

Awarding a spot-kick for that kind of minimal contact in a World Cup knockout game risks creating a terrible precedent.

Croatia had been outstanding at the back all evening, and now their disciplined performance is at risk of being undone by an intervention I strongly disagree with. Football involves physical challenges; not every brush or nudge should be penalised.

VAR exists to fix obvious errors, not to go looking for fouls that weren’t there. The referee saw the incident clearly in real time, yet reversed his decision after checking the monitor.

Moments like this are precisely why trust in the system keeps eroding.
If Portugal convert this, Croatia will rightly feel the result was decided in the VAR room rather than on the pitch. Calls of this magnitude can swing an entire competition, and in my view, this one has been badly misjudged.”

[Paolo Benedetti @pfbenedetti]

No estoy de acuerdo. Hace 10 años Cristiano era un jugadorazo.

[Andrei Dubois @AndreiDubois]

El mito de Cristiano Ronaldo se desmorona por completo en este Mundial, donde queda expuesto que sin la ayuda del punto penal su presencia en el ataque es nula. Esta dependencia absoluta de las penas máximas para maquillar sus estadísticas no es una novedad, sino el fiel reflejo de una carrera inflada por el marketing y los números fáciles. Verlo arrastrarse por la cancha esperando un regalo arbitral para poder festejar es la confirmación de que su trayectoria carece de la magia y el juego real de los verdaderos genios del fútbol.

[🇺🇸🇩🇪🦉 @jonahcelona]

A COMPREHENSIVE THREAD SHOWING HOW FIFA IS DOING THEIR BEST TO RIG THE WORLD CUP FOR PORTUGAL:

1. Bernardo's challenge VS DR Congo.

Dangerous tackle which should have been a red if people demanded a red card for Messi follow the same standards

[Pablo Giralt @giraltpablo]

Increíble dato: el penal de Cristiano Ronaldo fue el ÚNICO TOQUE VÁLIDO del delantero dentro del área, en los 81 minutos que llevaban transcurrido del partido.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Our love of science and data is generally worthy; I’m no Luddite. But in corrupt bureaucratic systems, from politics to sports, more rules and more technology often only provide more opportunities for corrupt manipulation.

[Josip @l3d1c]

🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor.

FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise.

Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament.

An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup.

And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything.

Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom!

Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?

[Pablo Mariño @PabloFMarino]

No se qué es más polémico...
1- El penal que le dieron a Portugal.
2- El gol que le anulan a Croacia (el 2-2).
3- El Premio de MVP a CR7.
🚫

[︎ ︎ ︎ ︎• @Hidalg0CT]

Portugal es la selección más ayudada y todo para que los retrasados fans de Cristiano Ronaldo estén contentos.

Mataron el fútbol

[David @PedriFCB]

EL ROBO ES HISTÓRICO!!!!
NUNCA TODA EL BALÓN!!! https://t.co/1KdDNv3Xu3

[David Faitelson @DavidFaitelson_]

Le regalan un penalti a Cristiano y a Portugal…
Sigue sin aparecer el aparente “caballo negro” luso…

[LaGrondona @LaGrondonaTwitt]

Imagínate si le anulan un gol así a un rival de Argentina. Lo que dirían de Messi. Veremos…

[Kenneth Smith Ramos @KenSmithramos]

Robo total a #Croacia en el partido contra Portugal. El delantero croata jamás peina la pelota.

[Rodrigo Azurmendi @RodAzurmendi]

Cuando viene el centro está habilitado.

El croata no la toca ni la peina.

El desvío es un portugués.

El VAR, como desde el Día 1, eligiendo ganadores y perdedores.

[Eduardo @Esduardo2002]

Uruguayos y madrileños llorando que Argentina la tiene fácil porque juega con Cabo Verde.
Y Argentina juega con Cabo Verde porque ninguno de los 2 le pudo ganar.
Más pelotudos no se consigue.

[Mûriëlo @LordMurielo]

La mano de Infantino hizo que Japón le vaya ganando a Brasil para que Messi tenga un camino cada vez más fácil. Cómo se nota todo. Un asco.