Soccer (Closing)

Surprised de paul is still alive after all these tackles.

Gonna be overturned

Fucking de Paul.

What a crazy dive

Joelinton thought he's still playing for Newcastle

So VAR doesnt exist?

The amount of crying in this thread… love it!

There was definitely a card warranted there, it was just the wrong color and shown to the wrong fucking person! There’s no excuse for how bad that call was.

The respectable Argentinian national team Messi spoke of

See it's not about varzil or vargentina. Conmebol refereeing (especially var) is simply awful

Me cago en Argentina

never a red

Check on your local Brazilians.

A high boot from Raphinha isn't a yellow but this is a straight red?

Argentina's players are treated like an expensive antique by FIFA. If you look bad at them you are getting a red card.

such a bull shit call.

I mean, De Paul was always going to make a meal of it, but VAR needs to tell center ref it wasn't a red, at worst a yellow. This is more on VAR than on field ref.

Argentina is such an unlikable team

Fuck the Argentina national team

De Baby

De Paul is HIM.

I fucking love this dude

Softest red in history

(Insert soft kobe gif)

They tried robbing Uruguay the same, its getting dumb.

This is quite soft but not egregious, this is violent conduct even if he doesn't hit his face. Again, pretty harsh but not enough to overrule imo. That said, watching a game where your team otherwise got 3 yellows from 25 fouls, and play the victim is pretty dumb.

Argentina help continues even after handed the World Cup

There was no way that was deserving of a red card. De Paul obviously play acting hurt when he was the one holding hands with Joelinton without even buying him dinner first.

Now this is CONMEBOL

de Paul fouls joelinton, but joelinton isn't allowed to try to push someone, especially when completely removed from play. At least a yellow for de Paul and still a red for joelinton.

someone put this ref in a box and bring him to the PL

Honestly that flagrant acting should be red and 3 games.

Coming from Canada even after 20+ years of watching football I still can’t get my head around the tolerance for faking a foul.

honestly, de paul should be thankful he didn’t injure joelintons shoulder right there… can’t think of a sport where an armbar like that is considered a natural motion.

It's cos City paid the refs.

Opinion of De Paul went down more than De Paul in this match.

Wow, you northeners would never understand, this was peak SA Football. This was art, De Paul playing Argentinian football 101.

Argentinian scumbag.

Wow, now that’s a bad call. Not even a warning in that one. Simply simulation from de Paul.

Holds on to Joelinton for long time by his arm he shrugs him off him, red wtf is this ref?

My friends girlfriend cheated on him while she was in Argentina. I guess we can’t really blame her though, she was just taking after the national team

What goes around comes around. - Justin Timberlake

With a proper view of the incident it looks like Joelinton actually does pretty well to twist himself free of De Paul's grip without lashing out or pushing back in any particularly aggressive way. Feels like pretty solid "clear and obvious error" territory here, and I might've even expected a booking for De Paul - if for the holding alone, let alone the simulation.

De Paul is such a piece of shit fuck this guy

Argentinians still flopping, disgusting

That shouldn’t even be a yellow for Joelinton

When Joelinton turned back towards him against the momentum of his body in the close up slo-mo, I was thinking "Oh yea, you can see he's pissed and is about to pop him with a hand/forearm/elbow in the chops"....and then nothing. De Paul is a clown. You can see what the ref thought he saw (I guess), but the VAR must be on a lunch break or something.

"Check complete." (But Does nothing)

That should be a straight red for diving. Time to make that shit reviewable and make it a red.

Not sure if that's De Paul or RuPaul on the field.

Referee was gifted a Messi signed jersey after the game.

this is absurd, but this is south american football in every single piece. CBF and COMNEBOL is a joke.