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JamesL said:
What am I missing?

Edit: I've got it. We beat the Germans.
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No he just arguably had the worst officiated match of the tournament in the round of 16.

And you had guys like Turpin and Lahoz sent home for arguably performances that weren't nearly as the low standard.
 
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santa sangria said:
www.theguardian.com

Refereeing and VAR among the unlikely highlights of Euro 2020 | Paul MacInnes

Officials are letting the game flow with the number of fouls down compared with Euro 2016 and VAR is running smoothly
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2 mins extra game time because of the "leaving bodies". Wow.

Very surprised Brych is still in, even more that he has good a potentially "political" appointment.
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Zero-tolerance for simulation... well I wouldn't go that far, but this is where the improvement has come about. Hardly bloody difficult to know that would improve Refereeing and the game overall. Maybe they can refer to Law 12 and start dishing out mandatory cautions for the worst transgressors.
Lest not forget, VAR has only come about because of dereliction of duty by Referees (Not their fault... hasten to add... it's the instructions from their employers that screw the game up). No coincidence that VAR has been less busy because players have realised it's more difficulty to 'buy fouls'. Referees seem to forget that players learn quickly

Anyway, fair play to this Rosetti fella. He's made a difference. Collina has not shown the same nous on the face of it
 
Big Cat said:
Edit: He had... by far the most difficult game of the Euros to Referee
Good decision to keep him on IMO
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Agreed.

I just hope you (we) don't come to regret him officiating England's game.

I personally think UEFA have committed a bit of a faux pas appointing him though. Imagine the outcry/EU conspiracy theorists etc that potentially await if he has a controversial match from an England perspective ... 😉😁
 
Kes said:
Agreed.

I just hope you (we) don't come to regret him officiating England's game.

I personally think UEFA have committed a bit of a faux pas appointing him though. Imagine the outcry/EU conspiracy theorists etc that potentially await if he has a controversial match from an England perspective ... 😉😁
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A couple of things about these QF assignments for me:

1. Yes, very surprised Brych not only stuck around, but got the England game. I know UEFA doesn't factor this in anymore, but I do think the optics wouldn't look good if a controversial call against England sends them out. I don't think it would have been a major issue just switching games with Kuipers to keep that potential optic out of the mix.

2. I said when Mateu Lahoz and Turpin both went home after the knockouts that it may come back to bite Rosetti, and I think it has here. I watched a lot of the Denmark-Russia game, and I didn't think Turpin's game was nearly as bad as some made it out to be. It definitely wasn't the out and out clunker that Brych had in Belgium-Portugal (and I'm a big fan of Brych). Had he stuck around, you could have put him on the England-Ukraine game with no major problems in my opinion.

With two English referees still at the Euros, Rosetti really didn't have a lot of other choices. I think he made a mistake sending both of Mateu Lahoz and Turpin home early, and it came back to put him in a difficult position.
 
Michael O just let Azpili off there. Quite easy YC I thought for the tackle from behind, especially given it was cynical as the Swiss had a person over.
 
60th minute, lovely chest and volley but has to be PIADM and IDFK (or DFK as there was contact). Instead Spain get a corner.

The Swiss need to get one of these headers on target.
 
santa sangria said:
The big one. Oliver goes SFP red no hesitation. VAR won’t bring that back. Sliding, no control, straight legs, off the ground, contact. But.... I think yellow also justifiable as the contact was glancing s force was minimal. Red also justifiable. Props to MO for making the decision.
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Exactly this. Didn't *have* to be a red, but there's enough there to justify it as well. If he'd gone yellow, I think that would have stood too, an actual proper "orange" card.
 
GraemeS said:
Exactly this. Didn't *have* to be a red, but there's enough there to justify it as well. If he'd gone yellow, I think that would have stood too, an actual proper "orange" card.
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I don't think he gives that red at this point in this game unless he is really sure that UEFA wants that play to be red. And there have certainly been several plays in the tournament that have given them a chance to clarify expectations with refs going forward based on calls that were or were not made.
 
Brave - and absolutely correct - call on the send-off. The key here is the slide into the player's plant leg. Collecting a player on the plant leg like that with a lot of your weight behind that trailing leg is dangerous.
 
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