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Portugal gamers Pepe and Bruno Fernandes lashed out on the Argentine referee in command of their 1-0 World Cup quarter-final defeat by Morocco on Saturday, claiming his nationality impacted the sport. Argentina progressed on Friday by beating the Netherlands and will they attain the ultimate, would possibly play towards Morocco in the event that they win their semi-final towards England or France. The match referee Facundo Tello, his two assistants and the video assistant referee have been all from Argentina.
“It is unacceptable for an Argentine referee to referee our sport,” Pepe stated on Portuguese tv.
“After what occurred yesterday, with (Lionel) Messi speaking, all of Argentina speaking, and the referee comes right here.
“What did we play within the second half? The goalkeeper dropped to the bottom. There have been solely eight minutes of stoppage time. We labored laborious and the referee (solely added on) eight minutes.”
Argentina striker Messi had complained in regards to the refereeing of his staff’s conflict with the Netherlands, saying an excessive amount of time had been added on.
Portugal’s fundamental criticism was that too little had been of their conflict with Morocco, vital of supposed time-wasting by the North African facet within the second half.
Bruno Fernandes complained that way more harm time ought to have been added, and that referees from groups nonetheless concerned within the match shouldn’t be appointed to matches.
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“We already know the way it works… earlier than the sport we already knew what we have been in for, and how much referee we might discover,” stated Fernandes, who was additionally livid after not being awarded a first-half penalty.
“Sadly, in these competitions, the place there aren’t any Portuguese referees, there are referees from groups which might be nonetheless within the competitors.
“It appears unusual to me, to say the least, however I do not wish to get into that, as a result of that is not the one purpose we misplaced.
“The referee gave two minutes of harm time within the first half and eight within the second. On this second half, the sport was stopped, at minimal, for between 15 and 20 minutes.”
Fernandes added: “We knew that we might play towards far more than simply Morocco.”
Nevertheless, his coach Fernando Santos didn’t assume the officers made an enormous distinction in his staff’s elimination.
“I do not assume so, I believe he may have known as for a foul on one or two (extra) events however usually talking I do not assume so,” stated Santos.
“I believe we may have completed extra and we did not achieve this. I do not assume we should always blame the referee, it would not make sense.”
The coach, who has a contract till after Euro 2024, stated he would focus on his future within the days to return with the Portuguese soccer federation.
Manchester Metropolis Ruben Dias believes the staff nonetheless has loads of potential shifting ahead.
“Above all, it is vital at this second, regardless of the tough of digesting (the defeat) to build up extra expertise,” stated Dias.
“We now have a really younger technology with a variety of high quality and now we have to have religion that nothing is misplaced.”
(This story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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