WC Intercontinental Playoff vs Costa Rica | Tue 14th June (15th NZT) | 9pm (6am NZT)

If he needs to watch the replay of the "foul" five times to determine it was a clear and obvious error then I'd suggest it wasn't clear and obvious?

Play wise bell and lewis aren't as involved or composed as I'd like to see them. Garbett also sloppy. Need to control the nerves. If tuiloma is in for his set piece then he needs to up the field more. His defense hasn't been too flash.

When I saw all the VAR crew as well as all the on-field refs were from Quatar I did raise an eyebrow. 

Gordinho

When I saw all the VAR crew as well as all the on-field refs were from Quatar I did raise an eyebrow. 

Yep, it just reeks of corruption.

Soft call, but think the arm going across the defender is never a good look in any challenge. 

If the ref has been bought then its going to be a tough second half. Boys doing very well though. They'll score another one if they keep going like that

Even if there is no corruption, it reeks of corruption, and that is one of the worst VAR decisions I've seen in my life.

The commentators are going on and on about Woods but there are other players doing a far better job than him.

No one’s been bought.
It’s football.

Come on boys! 

Good news is we are creating genuine chances after a truly awful start.

2nd half screams CR theatrics. But is hope 

Edit - and yeah it’s the arm going across from Garbett that is the bad look. Like he grabs the Tico’s sock for a split second. Fudgeing annoying. I’m an army of 1 watching it with 50 Ticos fans. Cods

Traitor

No one’s been bought.
It’s football.

 Yep, and it was perfectly logical by FIFA to award Qatar hosting rights in the first place. Nothing dodgy there.

Anyway, a big half coming up. I still believe. Come on lads.

I guess Costa Rica will come out firing hard or park the bus. They've  already been slowing it down without any ref intervention so that will most likely continue even more blatantly. They're dangerous of course but we have been making lots of chances. Let's hope for more.

They will try and frustrate us. We got to stay cool. And be really warry of the counter attack from them.

martinb

Joey Johns

Imagine if we had rojas, singh and thomas playing, would be dominating these guys

We’ve got Ben Waine. Wishing we had Old, tbh. Who else do we have?

 There really does seem to be a voodoo on our creative mids

Why did Var start the replay in slow motion half way through the incident.? Because it was an obvious foul on Garbitt before they both fell to the ground. The guy clattered through the back of the kiwi and as they fell his arm went around the guys leg. Absolute bullshark call. I’m watching this in France and the local commentators are full of praise for the kiwis play. Just need to play more through Carcace down the left. We can win this

I think Bell is having a poor game tbh

Traitor

No one’s been bought.
It’s football.

It's not healthy for us to blame corruption.

But it's totally naive to assume that these games aren't manipulated.

The Ref has been intimidated by the Costa Ricans and I feel he is out of his depth as an International Ref.

I think Bell has has been a bit off.

Costa Rica holding us better now. Tough to break through.

Take grieve off we need something different in attack

That Contreras a bit of a whiner.

Come on Kosta and Waino!

Woooooooooooow the ref found his yellow card after all that time??????

This is a red

Red

Uh. Red coming...

No corruption here guys.

Thanks Kosta

Kosta has looked well of the pace unfortunately. Lacking in depth here. Though I’d take 5-10 minutes of sick Rojas tbh.
Wimping out here a bit.

Sorry guys, that was a ridiculously stupid lunge and deserved.

But again Costa Rica play for it perfectly.

Stupid from Kosta honestly, knowing what was on the line. Deserved. I'd be filthy it that wasn't red against us, no excuses.

Darken Kosta, super sub…

Stupid lunge...definate red

Clear red. Stupid stupid stupid from Kosta 

I'm out, Ive switched it off. 
If you can watch that world cup of absolute corruption, go ahead and enjoy.

But I won't watch a minute of it.

Checking out, enjoy the rest of the game

VAR can get in the fudgeing bin

I don’t think they’re corrupt, just incompetent.

Fark it- break them. Hurt them. Elbows in the head, goals disallowed, totally bs red cards.
Time to not shy out of challenges.