Date: July 2nd, 2026 10:32 AM Author: vermilion 180 rehab
it was a weird play. if you look just at the contact you see red card all the way. if you look at how the collision happened you don't see red card. odd case.
Date: July 2nd, 2026 10:34 AM Author: richard clock
because there was nothing inherently dangerous about balogun's play, he was knocked off balance by the defender and landed awkwardly. it's incidental, accidental contact. plenty of examples of more egregious ankle stomps going unpunished in the tournament as well. it's a yellow card at worst, and using var to freeze frame the point of contact without the proper context is bs
Date: July 2nd, 2026 10:41 AM Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer
It was obviously not intentional there's not much else to say about it
Just a bad call and frankly the officiating throughout that game was very sus and biased against the US. I don't even actually care if the US team wins or not and as a pretty impartial observer watching for fun it really stood out as obvious and strange