Match #46 South Korea : Portugal Friday, 2 December 2022 18:00 local time (10:00 EST) Al Rayyan Referee: Facundo TELLO (ARG) AR1: Ezequiel Braislovsky (ARG) AR2: Gabriel Chade (ARG) Fourth Official: Maguette N'Diaye (SEN) Fifth Official: Djibril Camara (SEN) VAR: Nicolas Gallo (COL) AVAR (1): Juan Soto (VEN) Offside AVAR (2): Bruno Boschilia (BRA) Support AVAR (3): Armando Villarreal (USA) Stand-by Offside AVAR (4): Bruno Pires (BRA)
There's an incident around the 52nd(?) minute that some might describe as a stamp, but this one I think is very different from the ARG-MEX game and the one we just saw in GHA-URU. The player with the ball evades the opponent's challenge and then his foot goes out to his right to plant and accelerate to the left, completely natural and just unfortunate for the Korean player.
60' or 61' foul by Son (I think not called) might be interesting to look more at. I only saw it once, possible studs to knee?
Chade (AR2) had some...interesting decisions. A few delayed flags, including one that was probably a solid 5 yards offside, not even close. It started to really aggravate KOR. But then they turned around and scored in injury time second half on a close play that the feed I watched (BeIN) never did show a replay as clear as live action, which looked off. I'm not saying it was off, I'm just saying that AR2 didn't exactly perform in a way that instill confidence in the close calls at the end.