The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[lestatdark]

DakonBlackblade said:

Ka-pi96 said:

lestatdark said:

Here's the match stats, for anyone saying that Colombia were as bad as Brazil http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=255953/match=300186461/index.html#overview#nosticky.

Bear in mind that Colombia had about 3 offside fouls, and brazil none, so effectively Brazil did 1,5x as many fouls as Colombia, without even considering the difference in violence.

Offsides don't count as fouls, do they?

No they show as ofsides on the statistics, not as fouls.

Even that being the case, Brazil still did an heftier amount of fouls than Colombia. 

Edit - Why are people saying that just because some of us are pointing out that the referee was way more permisive towards Brazil, we're automatically saying that Colombia was robbed? Colombia did deserve to lose, the were completely outplayed by Brazil especially in the first half. 

Just because A (Brazil playing much better than Colombia) happens, doesn't mean that B is automatically invalidated (Brazil played more violently than Colombia which the referee allowed).