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Originally Posted by whomario
Also, this was one bad decicion (imo yellow for Neymar was fine, that is never given a red) and not a string of biased decicions. Hold your horses, maybe ...
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Half the referees in the Eredivisie would have shown Neymar a red card there the other half a yellow card, depending on how well they saw the situation. When you see the replay, you can see clearly it was an intentional foul. But it takes a very brave referee to send off Neymar in Brazil.
I agree that the no-goal for Croatia was a text book example of a foul on the goalkeeper, despite that the goalkeeper was blundering.
Doesn't take away that Croatia was making too many mistakes when pressured by Brazil. In the last ten minutes, Croatia kept trying, but lost their head when it counted, going into foul mode. Brazil got lucky at times, but it evens out the unlucky 1-0. The result deserves some asterisks, but the better (less mistakes making team) won.