Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz a fair referee?

[dejagah_fan]

Worst referee ever. Our players shouldn‘t even discuss with him or he will just give more cards.

[hasan]

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

I dont think qatar is in charge.
the us played all its games at 11.
no other team had this luxury.

[Hosseini]

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.

Thanks for this, great information

What did Eriksson say about FIFA critically if you don't mind going into more detail?

[Rooyintan]

Imagine he hands multiple Yellow cards to both Team Melli and US players or god forbid Red Card.

I am very worried. After all if somehow Team Melli goes to next round, what will Team Melli do if too many players are carded?

Is there any rule that says if there are too many players on 2 yellow cards and not enough players on the bench available, what needs to be done?

[Kavian]

Klinsmann already got into his head. How could he be fair anymore!!

Well done Klinsy!!

[Mahsaa]

he was a great referee

[Azmoun_shireh]

He was way too cushy with the US players. Joking and bantering. Even at the end. Unprofessional

[sycho67]

He was very good. Very fair, very human in his interactions. Our players were just emotional when asking for non-existant penalties. Iran just played badly that's all, let's not blame the ref.