Wednesday June 15, 2016 - 12:00 (EDT) - Paris Referee: Sergei Karasev Assistant Referee 1: Nikolay Golubev Assistant Referee 2: Tikhon Kalugin Additional Assistant Referee 1: Sergei Lapochkin Additional Assistant Referee 2: Sergei Ivanov Fourth Official: Aleskei Kulbakov (BLR) 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.2032253), 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.
That PK call looked fine. It was a little odd of Karasev, I thought, to make a "stay there" signal with his hands to the players as the PK was being taken, but it held off encroachment, at least on that side. In the moment, though, I thought he was stopping play for some reason.
I think most of us around here know by now that there are a lot of players who have very little clue about the specifics of the LOTG.