I’m not sure who made this but they have clearly never watched football before. Most of these “clear foul but no card given” examples are not yellow card fouls. The first “penalty” shout is a blatant dive, and the second one Salah is going down well before any contact is made and after the Argentinian defender made contact with the ball (which they conveniently cut from this compilation).

The Egypt goal being disallowed was the correct call, there was a clear foul during that passage of play. Whether another foul was given or not given in a completely different game has absolutely no relevance to the decision making in this game. If the people complaining had watched football at any time during the last 4 years then they’d know that sometimes decisions go your way and sometimes they don’t. VAR existing doesn’t mean every game is magically completely fair, nor will any game ever feel completely fair because so many of the laws of the game are based on interpretation.

Also “players demand VAR check but referee ignores them” doesn’t mean anything. There is no rule in football that says a referee has to stop the game every time a player has a sook; that’s not even how VAR works. Everything is reviewed by the team of referees upstairs. They are the ones who will ask the on-field referee to stop during the next halt in play so they can communicate with them. The on-field referee only goes over to the screen after the VAR team have reviewed the footage themselves and believe there was a mistake. That’s why the on-field referee usually (but not always, because of interpretation) goes along with the suggestion made by VAR. None of this has anything to do with the players, they do not officiate the sport.

The only bad decisions in this game were a couple of missed yellow cards from body checks that halted attacking moves. That’s it. Everything else was fine or a minor difference of interpretation and the Egyptians, like most nations from their part of the world, are just terrible losers. They spend every game rolling around on the floor trying to con the referees into awarding them free kicks and then cry their eyes out when they get ignored. Maybe they should spend the next 4 years learning how to defend instead of dive and sook and they might not concede 3 goals in 13 minutes and massively choke a game that most other teams in the tournament would have won from that position. The built up a lot of goodwill after the last game by qualifying for the Round of 16 for the first time in nearly a century and their coach speaking out about Palestine, but if they keep the circus going all they’ll be remembered as are clowns.

I said to friends before the world cup even started or had even been drawn, that FIFA 100% wanted Messi in another final as hes a money printer for them.

They have had by far the easiest route on paper to the final I can see, and only have the Swiss and either England or Norway left.

I lost all faith for draws being anything other than fixed a long time ago, and its not just the FIFA ones.