Coming into the World Cup quarterfinals, fans around the world have become increasingly upset with the way the tournament has been handled by FIFA, and there are even rumors of an FBI investigation into Argentina and FIFA amidst a series of questionable results and referee decisions, particularly against Egypt and Cape Verde in which Lionel Messi and friends managed to avoid two upsets on the back of bizarre calls.
Real Madrid fans have seen so much favoritism towards Messi over the years at Barcelona that none of this is surprising. And back when Real Madrid fans were screaming about this in the 2010s, it did turn out that through Negreira, Barcelona were paying for favoritism from refs.
Madridistas and the whole world continue to have reasons to poke at FIFA after what happened in the first half of the quarterfinal matchup between Kylian Mbappe and France and Morocco. There was a clear cut penalty in which Manchester United star and former Real Madrid transfer target Noussair Mazraoui fouled Mbappe in the box. With no hesitation, the ref, in clear view of the obvious foul, made the call.
The refs did Kylian Mbappe wrong
However, the VAR took ages to review the penalty. It was an inordinarily long VAR check that took literal minutes, as if time stood still, and Mbappe even had to leave the spot because it was taking so long. Clearly off his game, Mbappe was getting more and more nervous, as if the refs were "icing the kicker", which is something opposing NFL coaches do to make the person taking a clutch field goal take more time so they have more nerves, are off their mental rhythm of how the timing usually takes, and then miss.
That is exactly what happened. There was no explanation of what was being reviewed or why, why it was taking so long, and why so much time needed to be taken by the refs in the VAR room without any communication to the head ref or any need to review any aspect of the play.
Given, for the first time in this entire World Cup, all the refs were from one country for this France vs. Morocco game and all of the five refs involved are from Argentina - the very country that France faced in the last World Cup Final and the very country at the center of corruption allegations - Real Madrid fans, France fans, and anyone against rigging or what Argentina may be doing have another reason to worry about something foul going on. That was a bizarre, extraordinary set of circumstances around the obvious penalty delay that clearly affected Mbappe and led to his miss.
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