Match #63 - 12 July 2014 - 16:00 EDT - Brasilia Referee: Djamel HAIMOUDI (ALG) Assistant Referee 1: Redouane ACHIK (MAR) Assistant Referee 2: Abdelhak ETCHIALI (ALG) Fourth Official: Yuichi NISHIMURA (JPN) Standby Assistant Referee: Toru Sagara (JPN) This thread is for all pre-match, play-by-play and post-match discussion and analysis of the refereeing team. Per the forum guidelines (http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/welcome-forum-guidelines.2003380/), this thread will be heavily moderated. For more general or partisan discussions of the match, please go to the general Group thread or the individual team forums.
Well then... =) Don't see how it wasn't DOGSO but then it very possible that it should have been a FK instead of the PK.
it's a meaningless friendly ... Given what has been allowed to go unpunished in this tournament no one can be surprised
Guess Haimoudi didn't have the balls today. Also love how there were 0 comments at kickoff, but 7 within 5 seconds of the PK.
So I'm sure everyone is in agreement about the correct call there. So the question is what did Hamoudi see or think he saw that led him to give only a yellow?
really strange , he first tried to reach into his right pocket for the red card but after a couple of seconds changed his mind and reached for his shirt pocket for the yellow
must have missed the text in invisible ink that says a DOGSO warrants just a yellow card in the 1st minute of the match during the world cup
This was the most obvious DOGSO of all of the fouls so far in the World Cup. The stands would have cleared on a red card. I think if the Netherlands pull the same stunt, we would have seen a red.