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The amount of crying in this thread… love it!

That's a total howler. How was that allowed to stand?

never a red

I mean, De Paul was always going to make a meal of it, but VAR needs to tell center ref it wasn't a red, at worst a yellow. This is more on VAR than on field ref.

The respectable Argentinian national team Messi spoke of

There was definitely a card warranted there, it was just the wrong color and shown to the wrong fucking person! There’s no excuse for how bad that call was.

honestly, de paul should be thankful he didn’t injure joelintons shoulder right there… can’t think of a sport where an armbar like that is considered a natural motion.

They tried robbing Uruguay the same, its getting dumb.

Not a red, but I would have loved to see him clothesline the player that shoved him.

When Joelinton turned back towards him against the momentum of his body in the close up slo-mo, I was thinking "Oh yea, you can see he's pissed and is about to pop him with a hand/forearm/elbow in the chops"....and then nothing. De Paul is a clown. You can see what the ref thought he saw (I guess), but the VAR must be on a lunch break or something.

Argentina is such an unlikable team

Well, Gabriel Jesus got away with murder if this thing was a red lmao (which he did btw)

Thats pathetic from De Paul

Wow, now that’s a bad call. Not even a warning in that one. Simply simulation from de Paul.

"Check complete." (But Does nothing)

That’s a yellow for both players at the most.

And people still argue that Argentina doesn’t get special treatment.

Argentina help continues even after handed the World Cup

Argentinians are the dirtiest scumbags in football. Diving, choking, punching, Name it all and an Argentinian will be there.

this is absurd, but this is south american football in every single piece. CBF and COMNEBOL is a joke.

De Paul is such a piece of shit fuck this guy

De Paul is an unlikable little baby. Not even Brazilian and I’m livid

Awful, if only, it's a card for the Argentinian player.

What goes around comes around. - Justin Timberlake

De Paul should get a red card for that arm grab.

You can see why the ref gave the red, in motion it looks like he smashes him in the face but the replay shows it was actually a really restrained attempt to get the fucker locking his arm in place off him.

De Paul always acting the big man, ‘protector of messi’, crumpled on the ground crying from an arm across the chest

There was no way that was deserving of a red card. De Paul obviously play acting hurt when he was the one holding hands with Joelinton without even buying him dinner first.

That were diabolical

Just like the World Cup

Is there any team more unlikeable than the Argentina national team, cheating scum

2022 WC is back baby

Thought Wales got the worst ref last night until I see this one lol

That shouldn’t even be a yellow for Joelinton

That should be a straight red for diving. Time to make that shit reviewable and make it a red.

That Argentinian team really is unlikeable. They cause so much chaos then hide behind messi’s image.

Argentinians still flopping, disgusting

That's an awful call.

From the replay it looked like Joelinton was trying to smack away the hand De Paul was grabbing him with.

If the ref did his Job Joelinton wouldnt have reacted in the fist place.

That shit happens so often

Opinion of De Paul went down more than De Paul in this match.

That’s not even a foul lmao. He just gets his arm off of him.

Should have let Bruno Guimarães do it.

It's cos City paid the refs.

Referee was gifted a Messi signed jersey after the game.

With a proper view of the incident it looks like Joelinton actually does pretty well to twist himself free of De Paul's grip without lashing out or pushing back in any particularly aggressive way. Feels like pretty solid "clear and obvious error" territory here, and I might've even expected a booking for De Paul - if for the holding alone, let alone the simulation.

Honestly, De Paul should be banned for 3 games. Shit like this needs to be punished. Stop cheating.

De Paul, what a fcking cunt

Joey fuckin raging, that was a disgusting decision.

Looked good on the ball though didn’t he

Masterful levels of shithousery from De Paul there

Shithouse dirty football at its peak.

i've seen people hit by cars that have rolled less