So we have a ball deliberately blasted at the opponent's technical area following a reckless foul, resulting in the substitutes entering the field in a mass physical confrontation, and the result was just a caution for the foul? That's a choice.
The first possible misconduct he punished was against the attacker. So if we were being stickler's, it's IFK coming out anyway. If you want to say the keeper needed to be cautioned, that changes things. But he didn't do that so the point is moot on the restart.
Wow, Paredes needed two yellow cards (or a yellow and a straight red) there. One for the foul, and then another for blasting the ball into the opponents' bench. I was very happy with Lahoz in the first half, but he seems lost now.
I’m sorry. I get this is a WC but how you ignore that is beyond me. It’s no different than Otamendi not once but twice striking a ball at the head of a player who was down in the last WC. It’s just willfully ignoring the LOTG.
An important note, that whole situation can be avoided if he calls the first foul, a clear jump by Ake through Messi's back. What is fourth official Gomes doing, it's right in front of him. The revenge tackle that kicked everything off afterwards is the result.
As much as it pains me to agree with anything these announcers say, I think YC 2YC is right here. If it had struck a Dutch substitute, could be straight red.
We're dancing around things and much more interesting events have happened since. I'll leave it here: look when he blew the whistle. The players that eventually got booked were not really involved yet and, to the extent one was, it was the attacker. So at worst you have IFK coming out as the criticism. But, at best, maybe he engaged in some smart preventative refereeing to ensure things didn't escalate beyond where they were. Not everything in refereeing is blowing the whistle and reacting to events.
On the other matter... shocked he didn't send of Parades. But I wonder if he reasoned he would have had to send off Van Dijk, too.
But the key to you point is he blew the whistle. If you want to handle it creatively then don’t do that. Just get in there and break it up.
There might be little discussion about the referee after the game, but it’s not going to be that negative. Only referees will be talking.