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zehh25 on 29 June 2014
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vivster said:
zehh25 said:

 

 

I hope Colombia plays fair, or at least that the game has a better ref.

Brazil was playing well till 10min of 2nd half, but it seemed to be too nervous after Hulk's invalidated goal. I think Brazil will play way better against Colombia, because Colombia seems to be a more offensive and less violent team, although we haven't seen them playing againt a strong team this WC to know how they will act, but since their attack is way better than their defense, it will be probably a good game.

A goal can't be invalidated if it wasn't valid in the first place. Webb was a great ref, maybe the best in this tournament so far. He could've shown a few more cards for both teams but he certainly wasn't biased against a single team.

Everyone was saying that the ref from Brazil x Croatia was biased, yesterday we had two PKs for Brazil that were easy to see (one on Hulk and the other when Neymar's ball was going to the goal and the defender used his hand to take it off) and also the ref could have given many cards to Chile, now you say he was a great ref just because his mistakes were against Brazil.

If you haven't seen the second PK I'm talking about, just pay attention to the vid from 35min, 1st half and you will see that Chile defender had his arms raised. Here is a link were you can see: http://globoesporte.globo.com/jogo/copa-do-mundo-2014/28-06-2014/brasil-chile.html

Also, if you pay attention to Hulk's goal, the ref took a lot of time to decide and the assistant was going to the middle of the field. So, the question in: who said Hulk used his arm? No one outside the game can talk to the ref and even watching the replay later on TV we can't be sure he used his arm.

Anyway, I just think that people have been trying to make it seems that Brazil can only win this cup if the refs help, even the international press is acting this way.