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<blockquote data-quote="Peoria Illini" data-source="post: 1401269" data-attributes="member: 593314"><p>I think it was a tough game to call for any ref. Geiger's main problem IMO is that he let the game get out of hand midway through the first half, then it was nearly impossible to reign in.</p><p></p><p>Here's the problem that refs face. When you have a South American/Central American team (not named Brazil or Argentina), they are going to hack the crap out of any team that is more skilled than them. They are banking on the refs not being able to call everything (Kind of like Wisky basketball back in the days of Bo Ryan, LOL). If you couple that with the fact that refs are going to be hesitant to issue red cards in a World Cup knockout game for fear of "influencing the game" too much, then there is the possibility of the crap game we saw.</p><p></p><p>Once England saw that Geiger was reticent to issue cards to calm the game down, they started dropping on any contact like Neymar, LOL, and that added to lack of control.</p><p></p><p>A couple of yellow cards about midway through the first half to stop the Columbian hack a shaq defense, and that game should have calmed down.</p><p></p><p>The hacking by Central American teams is what gave the US such a hard time in qualifying because we didn't stand up to it. Those teams came in to the games with the mindset to foul Pulisic whenever he got the ball to break his rhythm and muck the game up. When that happens you need someone on the US to send a message back to the other team, to stand up for your teammate, and we didn't have that. Need to kind of have the "Chicago Way" attitude in games like that. </p><p></p><p>I doubt Geiger gets another game this world cup on the field. He'll be in the VAR booth, I'm guessing. </p><p></p><p>But Falcao's complaint about Geiger is nothing more than sour grapes, IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peoria Illini, post: 1401269, member: 593314"] I think it was a tough game to call for any ref. Geiger's main problem IMO is that he let the game get out of hand midway through the first half, then it was nearly impossible to reign in. Here's the problem that refs face. When you have a South American/Central American team (not named Brazil or Argentina), they are going to hack the crap out of any team that is more skilled than them. They are banking on the refs not being able to call everything (Kind of like Wisky basketball back in the days of Bo Ryan, LOL). If you couple that with the fact that refs are going to be hesitant to issue red cards in a World Cup knockout game for fear of "influencing the game" too much, then there is the possibility of the crap game we saw. Once England saw that Geiger was reticent to issue cards to calm the game down, they started dropping on any contact like Neymar, LOL, and that added to lack of control. A couple of yellow cards about midway through the first half to stop the Columbian hack a shaq defense, and that game should have calmed down. The hacking by Central American teams is what gave the US such a hard time in qualifying because we didn't stand up to it. Those teams came in to the games with the mindset to foul Pulisic whenever he got the ball to break his rhythm and muck the game up. When that happens you need someone on the US to send a message back to the other team, to stand up for your teammate, and we didn't have that. Need to kind of have the "Chicago Way" attitude in games like that. I doubt Geiger gets another game this world cup on the field. He'll be in the VAR booth, I'm guessing. But Falcao's complaint about Geiger is nothing more than sour grapes, IMO. [/QUOTE]
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