Match #39 Belgium : Portugal Sunday, 26 June 2021 21:00 local time (15:00 EDT) Seville Referee: Felix Brych (GER) AR1: Mark Borsch (GER) AR2: Stefan Lupp (GER) Fourth Official: Georgi Kabakov (BUL) Video Assistant Referee: Marco Fritz (GER) AVAR 1: Christian Dingert (GER) AVAR 2: Christian Gittelmann (GER) AVAR 3: Bastian Dankert (GER)
Brych was straight behind and probably had no sense of the jersey tug. Of course the AR is focusing on offside, but you'd hope he could help out there because that was SPA.
I appreciate letting the game flow, but this is going to get ugly if these attempts to stop players are not punished.
Or the 4th maybe? Trail AR if they have an unobstructed view. This is going to hurt his score for the match.
Usually Brych is a pretty good ref form the UCL games I've seen, not sure what's happening here. Someone tell Taylor Twellman to get out of the booth and put a patch on and get onto the field like he desperately wants to
"Let's get the view of Mark Clattenburg, former longtime FIFA referee" Why do you need that? Taylor Twellman already gave his superior opinion
There was a time that we would have had a multi page thread on that “back pass” in the 45’ (the Miskito by the Portuguese defender)
I mean, it’s pretty much the poster child for why we made “tackles from behind that endanger…” red cards. I think when we moved to just “endangers the safety,” a lot of people forgot why we focused on the “from behind” aspect in the first place.
Clattenburg doing a disservice to all of us out there with his "No brutality" comment on the Paulhina caution. I believe that should have been a red card and I'm one of Brych's biggest fans. Listening to his rationale for calls or non-calls reminds me of British trainers saying I was a bit harsh on tossing their guy (Seriously? "No brutality"?). With a resume like his, you would think he could provide a better defense for the caution than a comment like that. NFL Fox's Mike Perreira could provide better insight...even in soccer.
Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play. Seems like what we saw, especially with the scissoring that happened.