Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz a fair referee?

[CAGE]

I am a bit nervous to have a Spanish referee officiating the Iran vs USA match as many of the American players speak Spanish fluently. Do you guys know anything about this gentleman is he a fair refere?

[DR Strangemoosh]

No, he has a reputation as a controversial referee
Barcelona fans hate him
He does very odd things a lot of the time. Even his use of VAR is very inconsistent.

[PSGman#19]

No he isn't fair. He forgot a penalty against Qatar and didn't even check VAR

[CAGE]

So are we done for? 😞

[aariaa]

Guardiola doesn't like him:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...iola-2018.html

He was also the referee in the game where Maccabi Haifa beat Juve 2-0

[DR Strangemoosh]

So are we done for? 😞

Nothing can be done now, just need to play the best and hope he doesn't do his usual shenanigans.

[Abtin]

So he'd be the kind of ref to not VAR check the karate kick on Taremi? 🥋

[kordesi]

Let’s stay positive. You never know, he may make inconsistent or bad decisions that go against USA!

[perspolis#1]

Don't focus on the referee.

The same **** happened with Ben Williams.

Just play the game. Ansarifard can also speak a little Spanish. Who cares.

Keep discipline for 90 minutes and get the job done.

[Essi]

Obviously anti penalty referee So better if Taremi should not even try.

[Raptor]

Not a good choice in my opinion. First of all, Spanish referees are very prone to hand out cards easily.

Jonas Eriksson, a former FIFA referee who nowadays works as sports pundit for Swedish state national television (and has been highly critical of his former employer FIFA), commented on Lahoz after Qatar-Senegal. He knows the referee very well.

He discussed the penalty situation that Qatar wanted, he literally said that Lahoz is "allergic" to those kind of situations and never awards the attacking player a penalty, because he believes the attacker seeks the penalty by intentionally letting the defender run into him. Eriksson said you could either interpret the situation as Lahoz did or as the defender being clumsy and causing the foul. He said if it was himself officiating the game he would likely call it a penalty. But since it wasn't a clear penalty, VAR will back up the referee and not intervene. So it all depends on who the referee is.

With that being said, those are the situations that Taremi has been phenomenal in and has been awarded many penalties for, but it seems Lahoz won't call those.

[perspolis#1]

Not a good choice in my opinion. First of all, Spanish referees are very prone to hand out cards easily.

Jonas Eriksson, a former FIFA referee who nowadays works as sports pundit for Swedish state national television (and has been highly critical of his former employer FIFA), commented on Lahoz after Qatar-Senegal. He knows the referee very well.

He discussed the penalty situation that Qatar wanted, he literally said that Lahoz is "allergic" to those kind of situations and never awards the attacking player a penalty, because he believes the attacker seeks the penalty by intentionally letting the defender run into him. Eriksson said you could either interpret the situation as Lahoz did or as the defender being clumsy and causing the foul. He said if it was himself officiating the game he would likely call it a penalty. But since it wasn't a clear penalty, VAR will back up the referee and not intervene. So it all depends on who the referee is.

With that being said, those are the situations that Taremi has been phenomenal in and has been awarded many penalties for, but it seems Lahoz won't call those.

We were never getting a penalty call in our favor vs USA or even England(if the game was close). If anything I hope that means last minute dives by Pulisic, Weah, Reyna are not given penalties because we know the US is willing to try anything for a narrow win to call it a great success.

[koorosh]

No point in worrying about things we can't change.

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[a_m]

Juergen klinsmann pulled some strings here I am sure , with that he said for them to put this referee ,

[aariaa]

I don't think so. Qatar is in charge and they are very positive towards us