Originally Posted by
NM Duke Fan
Both the live Guardian soccer expert and a panel of BBC experts saw it in the opposite way with both calls, I am not a lone wolf here! One Fox expert also would not have called it a hand ball, and with the first goal, one commentator called it a dive. One thing is for certain, there is some degree of subjectivity/grey areas in officiating sports, and those were critical turning points in the game!
IMHO (where the H, which was present in Rio, failed to make the trip to Russia), neither call was outrageously bad. Griezmann went down a bit too easily -- but he is a big-time player (and Michael Jordan pushed off all the time). The hand ball was obviously a "hand hitting a ball" -- gotta have some discipline, Croatia. I would sympathize heavily with Croatia, however, if not for those two gorgeous goals by Mbappe and Pogba, which showed that France could generate some offense on its own.
Sage Grouse
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