Can you imagine how Lahoz reputation to the public would be if he actually ended up giving out 2-3 SYC in this game, especially for dissent?
Nice! So we have a record for yellows! Not quite there yet with a full record given Battle of Nuremberg had 16 yellows but also 4 reds.
Someone posted on another forum that the FIFA site was listing 18 cautions. That's gotta be some kind of record for cautions without a send off.
It should be a card. It is one of those handling situations that bring disrespect to the game. It would be cautioned in most games.
FIFA has 16 yellows and 1 red! https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/match-centre/match/17/255711/285074/400128139
But unfairly not giving a team the numerical advantage they deserve is simply wrong. Totally different game if it becomes 10v11 there. Not only unfair to Netherlands but unfair to Croatia also who now have to face a player who rightly should be suspended
Looks like Dumfries got a yellow during PKs, and then a second yellow during PKs. Plus two bench players got a yellow, so the total is 18 yellows and 1 red (Dumfries).
Messi just critiqued Lahoz Lionel Messi: "No quiero hablar del árbitro, porque te sancionan, no podés decir lo que pensás. La FIFA tiene que reveer eso, no puede ponerlo en una instancia así, QUE EL ARBITRO NO ESTÉ A LA ALTURA". pic.twitter.com/FFiT4OGCJO— TyC Sports (@TyCSports) December 9, 2022
It will be very interesting if someone from the media asks Collina whether there is a directive and then follows up after he gives the obligatory “of course not” initial response. There is simply no way Antonio Mateu Lahoz, who has never been afraid to make a big decision, suddenly forgets that a red card is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in a match like this. Collina and FIFA can deny it all they want, but this game proves the suspicions once and for all.
Horrible camera work - not mine - but looks like a caution followed by a red. That’s how it looks but could be different. Edit Dumfries picking up the red card post-match from our friend Mr Lahoz. pic.twitter.com/iTaDcXVwvV— Will Downing (@WillDowningComm) December 9, 2022
You're forgetting the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. This is FIFA's gold. They want the spectacle and they think the spectacle is best served by the game staying 11 v 11. You and I may not like that, but FIFA has the gold and FIFA sets what they want.