Match #16 Poland : Senegal Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:00 local time (11:00 EDT) Moscow (Otkritie) Referee: Nawaf Shukralla (BHR) AR1: Yaser Tulefar (BHR) AR2: Taleb Al Marri (QAT) Fourth Official: Abdulrah Al Jassim (QAT) Reserve AR: Mohamed Alhammadi (UAE) Video Assistant Referee: Artur Dias Soares (POR) AVAR1: Tiago Lopes Martins (POR) AVAR2: Hernan Maidana (ARG) AVAR3: Wilton Sampaio (BRA)
Reserve AR: Mohamed Alhammadi (UAE) Video Assistant Referee: Artur Dias Soares (POR) AVAR1: Tiago Lopes Martins (POR) AVAR2: Hernan Maidana (ARG) AVAR3: Wilton Sampaio (BRA)
Bumping the thread up for kickoff. Shukralla is very experienced and has done well at FIFA tournaments. I like him a lot more than Irmatov, but my vote doesn't count...
I'd hope every ref in the tournament would get that 11th minute yellow, but since I'm not sure, I'll give him a bunch of credit there.
Good caution in a vacuum, but was pretty much the direct result of missing a foul at the other end, so that's a negative factor there.
45' - that seemed the sort of 2CT that would have been absolutely correct, but that FIFA probably doesn't want. Studs firmly on the boot/ankle of the plant leg. After being bold and getting the 11' caution, he just goes with a warning to the same player at 45'.
Oh no. Oh no. (Referee waved on a player in the middle of a play while the ball was ping ponging around, and Poland back clears it right to the waved-on player, who walks it in on the keeper.)
I would say it's a small error that had a huge consequence. What are the odds Poland does that at that exact time? But still an unfair result.
But that leads to the question of whether it's an error at all. Because he has to wave him on at some point. So if he chose a low-risk time to do it and Poland made a dumb choice, is it really on him? I'm asking that somewhat rhetorically right now, because I truly want to see it again.
I disagree strongly. A Poland defender just headed the ball 20 yards into the air towards the Senegal goal. There was nothing wrong with the moment the referee waved him on.
The AR and FO clearly were not managing it well. I still haven't been able to pick up exactly when the CR gave the signal--if at all.
I dunno. I mean, the rules/guidelines are designed precisely to avoid the result that happened. This isn't "on Poland" in any useful sense of the term, normatively. But the rules are not perfect.
Unclear to me how the referee was supposed to foresee a Poland player kicking a random ball to no one in his own half.
I still see nothing wrong here. He waved the player on after a Poland player had headed the ball towards the Senegal goal. The signal is when the ball is in the air if you can't tell. The GIF didn't capture it well.
Whether or not this is an error, this is the kind of play that leads to changes. There's going to be a lot of discussion after this about only letting players re-enter on stoppages of play.
I mean, if the Senegal player isn't waived on, that's a completely normal backclear. It wasn't like the Polish player acted irrationally or flubbed his kick. He just wasn't expecting an unaccounted-for Senegal player to be running on to the field. Maybe the result is unfortunate rather than the ref's fault, and I'm rooting for Senegal in this game (not strongly), but I don't think the argument that this is Poland's fault holds much water.