R16 Analysis: PAR-JPN - De Bleeckere (BEL)

First half, Silva should have gotten a caution (at least) for his tackle from behind making contact on Honda's upper calf, just below the knee. This was also the second or third time that De Bleeckere did the tweet-tweet-tweet and finger wag.

At some point the players stop believing you.

 

Anyone else thinks the ref is too whistle-happy? I feel the flow of the game is being disturbed.

 

The 57' card was for Delay of Restart because Matsui kicked the ball away after the whistle.






Aaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhh! He cards Honda for a botched chest trap in the 92nd. That's absurd.

 

Attacking handling = yellow card?

Seems like it's going that way every single time. Is there anyone with more time and resources go back and check how consistently that's being called this Cup? Was there a directive to the refs to do this?

 

Almost seems like any sort of "intentional" handling is an automatic yellow card.

 

exactly. Did the match need that caution on Honda? Simple handling foul and get on with it. Lots of these guys seem to think any handling foul requires a caution. Just bizarre. And then the forearm violence goes totally unpunished.

 

I really don't like seeing stupid handball stuff being cautioned when cautions are not shown for players coming in and clipping the opponent after the ball has been played away.

 

I love it how everyone is talking about the unfair calls against Japan but no mention of the tons against Paraguay including the elbow to Villar's face.

The biases here are incredible.

Ref has been bad for both teams.

 

Give me a break.

 

Agree. That was a strange one.

When did the uncalled elbows occur?

 

It seems like you don't get the point of this forum. This is for referee analysis.

Do you think Paraguy have been aggrieved in some way? Give examples. Times, actions, cards, what? Don't come in here saying "Bias grr". Come in here saying "In minute <>, I thought the call for <> against Paraguay was incorrect. What did everyone think? Was it positioning? did he see something we didnt? Law <> seems to agree with what I thought, but I'm just curious as to what everyone else thought."

Of course no one talks like that, but my point is easy to see. This isn't a forum to go "lol bad refs" it's a forum to go "That call was strange. Does anyone see what he saw?" Yes, referees make bad calls, and we are here to figure out what was the reason for that bad call. Or maybe it was a good call, and you didn't get a good look at it. Maybe it's an ITOOTR call. There's plenty of possibilities here.

For my money, I can't really add anything new to the thread, re: De Bleeckere's performance. It's been pretty good. His AR let him down on the elbow, and that caution for deliberate handling (and it was, don't let the commentators fool you. Well IMO at least) was strange, but, as has been said, DB is a good ref and wouldn't caution for *that* unless FIFA has told him to do it. He knows what he has to do to get another game, so he is doing it.

 

Oh my... not sure about that last caution against Japan. It was a little late but much more careless than reckless... and it takes him out of quarterfinals if Japan advances.

Overall, game management has been good but I just think some of the cautions have been inconssistent.

 

ok, that was another completely ridiculous caution

 

Another yellow for handling that also didn't seem needed (bounced from his foot to his hand).

 

There is another caution for handling... I am now convinced there is a FIFA WC directive. Just wish FIFA would let the rest of us in on it so that we wouldn't spend so many keystrokes discussing it! LOL

 

Not unless it results in a goal (read: Luis Fabiano).