Match #46/QF: Belgium 1-2 Italy (8pm, Friday 2nd July)

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Re: Match #46/QF: Belgium v Italy (8pm, Friday 2nd July)

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WCpete wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:34 pm Shithousery started early in this one. Wasn't reserved for added time.
Speaking of added time, just read that in the 9 minutes between the 88th and the full-time whistle (97th), the ball was in play 2 mins 33s! Only one yellow card was shown - for intentionally charging down a free kick (presumably to waste even more time).

Eggs'n'nuts wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:48 pm It's a shame this sort of play acting can't be, or doesn't get, punished with a yellow. Then if/when it's appealed, the footage could be shown to the panel.
I remember Ronaldinho getting a straight red at World Cup 2002.
Problem in cases like this one, is that if the player thought he would get punished for clear simulation, he'd just stay down and roll around a bit longer. Having said that. at least he would have to go to those lengths and then have to go off the pitch.
DublinDave wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:57 pmHe felt a slight contact and went down like Salah did against Masuaku... In the Prem that's a pen ( :furrow: ), but with good refs it an ignore... When Italy scored he got up like Lazarus in the same way Salah did...
I think Italy scored before the ref / VAR could award the pen.
The same referee that was not so good that he allowed a substitution to be made between a free-kick and a retaken free-kick thus facilitating Italy to waste more than two minutes of time over a free-kick they had conceded!
The free-kick culminated in a free-kick to Italy, after just one touch - because the keeper ran out and clattered into his own defender! The keeper then lay on the floor clutching his side for a minute until the physio came on and and freeze-sprayed his leg! meanwhile the keeper removed his glove and begun now nursing his wrist and forearm - an area that received no contact at all, not even in his landing. Nonetheless he wasted 1 minute and 50secs - that's now four minutes later than the foul on De Bruyne - the ball had been kicked twice!
To add insult to fake-injury, the keeper not only didn't have to leave the pitch following the treatment, he took the free-kick.
The kick was taken long, but before the ball was back under control following an up&under style hoof, Italy won another free-kick as a Belgian midfielder, watching the falling ball and preparing to control it, got clattered from behind by an incoming, flying Italian defender who got nowhere near it. How? Ball was in play 20s, and now that Italian proceeded to roll around holding his gut badly feigning being winded. His nearby teammate also threw himslef to teh floor, but was able to forget his injured leg sufficiently to leap up and go forehead-to-forehead with a Belgian who presumably accused him of playacting.
Another freekick, then a poor high ball forward by Belgium, straight into the arms of Donnarumma, who after a pause threw himself prone onto the floor - no Belgian had gone within ten yards of him. He lay there prone and smiling for several seconds and eventually got up walked across to the other side of the penalty area and released the ball more than 20s after catching it - aren't they only allowed to hold it for 6 seconds? He was needlessly on the floor longer than that. No booking for timewasting? Might not have helped Belgium but it would have put paid to his antics in the semi-final.
Less than a minute later Italy commit an intentional foul near the far corner flag, for a scissor-action foul - straight red? Not even a yellow.
The ref then blew the final whistle while waiting for Donnarumma to take a goalkick - which he had placed and was stalling over taking, after gesturing to the crowd.
Good ref? Not a single card for time-wasting nor tactical foul, nor simulation. And dubious awarding of free-kicks to the team committing those things!

As I started this rant about fre-kicks, I've noticed that refs aren't allowing quick free-kicks to be taken - which of course plays right into the hands of the transgressors that make tactical fouls.
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