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So you want players to dive and cheat? It's really weird how people say it's absolutely fine to do whatever is needed for the win. They immediately lose this sentiment as soon as their tеam gets cheated by an opponent.

No. Ref ignored it. He really should have been off. And answering the original question: of course, such behaviour should be punished. It's like asking if diving should be punished.

What? How is it not? He clearly intentionally passed it back with a leg.

Surely it's a backpass. But it's Argentina...

on goal... of the team where Messi plays.

What is the relevance betweent he ball movement direction and offside rule?

Hahaha. That's a foul to Argentina. They don't even want to hide it that the ref is going to cheat Argentina to a title here.

The contact was between 2 Di Maria legs. Such a joke if anyone thinks it's a penalty

The stories are that they left him go not because he didn't watch football but because of an argument with the coach, which is very different. We don't know the story. But it could easily be that there was no real issue but a coach, instead of ignoring it, decided to mock him about it and then it escalated.

But it's not possible at all. Players will be banned by FIFA. At least a number of people told so, when there was a discussion about the possibility of players boycotting the tournament.

What's the problem with ignoring it? Surely, it will also harm his (and so the team's) spirit if you make him do something he really doesn't. And surely it shouldn't bother the rest if he didn't want to watch football with them. Like in families, if my wife wants to watch a movie on TV and I want to play a game on a PC, it doesn't make our "team spirit" worse.

As I said, I personally agree. And for me it was a foul against the goalkeeper yesterday. He was standing still (unlike Morrocan player here even) and Alvarez ran into him. Yet, somehow it is deemed that the player, who stayed still and was hit is considered to be fouling. That's awful application of the rules and yet another example of how football is behind many other sports. Still, it could never be a penalty today there. That's not how they apply the rules in football.

French player has the ball here. So, it is actually a foul against him. Sinilar to how it was a penalty to Argentina yesterday when Alvarez hit Croatian goalkeeper but got a penalty. That's consistently how the rules are applied. I personally don't like it but it quite consistent. Should not have been a yellow card here for sure though.

Is VAR giving him hints of previous errors, so he decided to even it out?

France actually beats strong opponents though. In 2018 they defeated Belgium and Argentina. People praise here great achievements under Southgate but how many times did they defeat strong teams in the play-offs in the last 2 WCs and Euros? Germany arguably. Not sure if they were not considered massive underdogs back then. And lost to Belgium, Italy and now France. And a loss against Croatia obviously. Not sure if that is such a great achievement overall on the balance of those results. England was effective against weaker teams during that period. That's true but not more than that.

Also, when considering who played better and who deserved the win, you cannot ignore the score situation. If the score was 0-0 for most of the match and then France scored a winner in the end, you could say that were lucky and Englayed deserved the win. But when France was leading for most of the match, of course they are going to play more defensively. Yet, both time the score was equal, it was France who scored the goal to lead. It's very harsh to say, they deserved to lose. Draw could sound like a fair result but surely England didn't do enough to say they deserved to win.

Well, the second penalty would never by given by VAR in the Premier League. It was a foul and a penalty, but VAR in England never overtunes it. Then in this challenge French defender wanted to challenge fairly. But the push on Giroud was just a cheating foul with no intention of fair challenge. England is quite lucky that VAR didn't intervene there. This thread is really weird with all those bias suggestions. As many pointed out already, this ref waved on a number of English fouls, too. There is no difference between that foul on Saka or on Mbappe. France didn't score because of a missed foul. England fully regrouped for a defence, no need to put any blame on the ref for that goal.

And it's not as if the goal was scored from the counter attack. England was able to regroup defensively, so that was just one of the possession attacks at that time. VAR could not even review it because of that. A bit naive to blame that goal on the ref.

A minute, not a second surely?

I am a huge Rashford fan but it does make sense to keep him on the bench. And the reason is that he is a much bigger threat off the bench than others. Whatever the score is. If England is winning and tou put him on, he will be such a danger for the opposition. And if England won't be winning, him being fresher will give that extra edge, plus he has a good long shot to be used agains a very deep defence.

I made a big bet on a red card to happen this match. And the ref is absolute coward not to produce at least a few this match. Zakaria headbutt was completely ignored ffs

How was he not booked for that?

I honestly don't get it. You said that government tries to solve this gun problem and the main hurdles are at the state level. So, why shouldn't other countries protest about those states preventing of getting rid of the archaic gun laws? If major(and minor) countries speak out, that might change the stance of those states.

Surely that means that actions/gestures/messages of the nations attending that WC in the US would be much more effectice there then. In Qatar they cannot change anything, while what you described about the US means that there is a thin line and any extra help can actually help to solve the problem.

Why are you not happy with a correct decision?