I've done well this week with my choices. On the whole I would say I have chosen the less high profile game on show. Usually the other game has had more at stake than the main channel one.
And like the game tonight, this one is more evenly matched.
And it's a very fair point. The defender does the exact same thing to Cavani and it's a pen. Cavani does that to a defender, I can't see how that can be a penalty too.
Seems nearly all the pundits are saying that should have been a penalty for Uruguay at the end.
I really think they need to change the rules if true. I can't see how it should be allowed for a striker to stick his leg out and across the defender, so the defender can do nothing but make contact...
Looking again at that pen shout, I think Cavani fouls the defender. He puts his leg across hoping to be caught, but actually trips the Ghanaian defender.
Definitely not a pen.
Agree. Looked a clear dive in real time, but if they had slowed it right down I am sure they could have found that the Ghanaian defender, handled it, then shirt pulled, then spat and finally then kept the ball in even though it was over the line.
Their own fault. Why not go for the big win when they were well on top?
They had Ghana on the ropes and one more goal would have done it.
They took their strikers off and decided to hang on to what they had got.
Tough