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<blockquote data-quote="Barbara Fan" data-source="post: 441837" data-attributes="member: 21"><p>Egypt were robbed the other night - blatant favouritism for Messi (who I love) and Argentina</p><p></p><p>José Mourinho on the Repeated Argentina World Cup Controversies "I look at what happened with the Folarin Balogun red card being magically suspended after politics got involved, and I look at how Egypt was completely robbed in the Round of 16 against them, and I just have to smile. All of this started in the very first week of the tournament when Lionel Messi was allowed to escape a clear red card against Algeria. When you set a precedent that the rules do not apply to certain teams, you lose all control. We are seeing it match after match. It is a recurring script." "Some people are calling it a scandal, but a scandal is something unexpected. For me? This is just normal now. We witnessed the system protecting them throughout the group stages, we saw it against Cape Verde, and we saw it again when Mohamed Salah was denied a clear penalty while Cristian Romero stayed on the pitch after a horrific tackle. You can put the tournament in America, in Mexico, in Canada, it doesn't matter. The geographic location changes, but the hands pulling the strings stay exactly the same. It is a cinematic production." "If you are a smaller nation playing in this World Cup, you have to accept that you start the match 1-0 down before a ball is even kicked. Egypt played beautiful football, they went 2-0 up, and they still couldn't win because you cannot defeat a referee who is determined to look the other way. When VAR can rewind the play from five minutes ago just to disallow an Egyptian goal, but refuses to check a blatant foul on Salah in the 93rd minute, the game is dead. <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">The integrity is completely gone."</span></p><p></p><p><a href="https://x.com/LfcNuel/status/2074937549567492587/photo/1" target="_blank"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMuos5nXoAAyZsr?format=jpg&name=240x240" alt="Image" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="https://x.com/LfcNuel/status/2074937549567492587/photo/2" target="_blank"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMuos5hW8AA_bj2?format=jpg&name=360x360" alt="Image" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Barbara Fan, post: 441837, member: 21"] Egypt were robbed the other night - blatant favouritism for Messi (who I love) and Argentina José Mourinho on the Repeated Argentina World Cup Controversies "I look at what happened with the Folarin Balogun red card being magically suspended after politics got involved, and I look at how Egypt was completely robbed in the Round of 16 against them, and I just have to smile. All of this started in the very first week of the tournament when Lionel Messi was allowed to escape a clear red card against Algeria. When you set a precedent that the rules do not apply to certain teams, you lose all control. We are seeing it match after match. It is a recurring script." "Some people are calling it a scandal, but a scandal is something unexpected. For me? This is just normal now. We witnessed the system protecting them throughout the group stages, we saw it against Cape Verde, and we saw it again when Mohamed Salah was denied a clear penalty while Cristian Romero stayed on the pitch after a horrific tackle. You can put the tournament in America, in Mexico, in Canada, it doesn't matter. The geographic location changes, but the hands pulling the strings stay exactly the same. It is a cinematic production." "If you are a smaller nation playing in this World Cup, you have to accept that you start the match 1-0 down before a ball is even kicked. Egypt played beautiful football, they went 2-0 up, and they still couldn't win because you cannot defeat a referee who is determined to look the other way. When VAR can rewind the play from five minutes ago just to disallow an Egyptian goal, but refuses to check a blatant foul on Salah in the 93rd minute, the game is dead. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]The integrity is completely gone."[/COLOR] [URL='https://x.com/LfcNuel/status/2074937549567492587/photo/1'][IMG alt="Image"]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMuos5nXoAAyZsr?format=jpg&name=240x240[/IMG][/URL] [URL='https://x.com/LfcNuel/status/2074937549567492587/photo/2'][IMG alt="Image"]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMuos5hW8AA_bj2?format=jpg&name=360x360[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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