Argentina improved to the final 4 on Friday via beating the Netherlands and will have to they achieve the overall, may play in opposition to Morocco in the event that they win their semi-final in opposition to England or France.
The fit referee Facundo Tello, his two assistants and the video assistant referee had been all from Argentina.
“It’s unacceptable for an Argentine referee to referee our game,” Pepe mentioned on Portuguese tv. “After what happened yesterday, with (Lionel) Messi talking, all of Argentina talking, and the referee comes here.
“What did we play in the second one part? The goalkeeper dropped to the bottom. There had been most effective 8 mins of stoppage time. We labored onerous and the referee (most effective added on) 8 mins.”
Messi had complained about the refereeing of Argentina’s clash with the Dutch, saying too much time had been added on.
Portugal’s main complaint was that too little time had been added in their clash with Morocco and they were critical of supposed time-wasting by the North African side in the second half.
Bruno Fernandes complained that far more injury time should have been added, and that referees from teams still involved in the tournament should not be appointed to matches.
“We already understand how it really works… ahead of the sport we already knew what we had been in for, and what sort of refereeing we might in finding,” said Fernandes.
“Unfortunately, in those competitions, the place there aren’t any Portuguese referees, there are referees from groups which are nonetheless within the pageant.
“It seems strange to me, to say the least, but I don’t want to get into that, because that’s not the only reason we lost.
“The referee gave two mins of damage time within the first part and 8 in the second one. In this 2d part, the sport was once stopped, at minimal, for between 15 and 20 mins.”
Fernandes added: “We knew that we’d play in opposition to a lot more than simply Morocco.”
The midfielder was left furious in the first half after not being awarded a penalty when he tumbled under a Moroccan player’s challenge from behind.
“The (officers) aren’t used to this kind of sport and this pace,” added Fernandes.
“In the primary part there’s a transparent penalty on me, with none doubt, as a result of I’m on my own and not in my lifestyles let myself fall, when I used to be on my own with the goalkeeper and may just shoot on purpose. It’s so simple as that .”
However, his coach Fernando Santos did not think the officials made a big difference in his team’s elimination.
“I don’t believe so, I believe he may have referred to as for a bad on one or two (extra) events however in most cases talking I don’t believe so,” said Santos.
“I believe we may have completed extra and we did not achieve this. I don’t believe we will have to blame the referee, it does not make sense.”
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The coach, who has a contract until after Euro 2024, said he would discuss his future with the Portuguese football federation in the days to come.
Manchester City’s Ruben Dias believes the team still has plenty of potential as they contemplate the future with players such as Goncalo Ramos and Rafael Leao.
“Above all, it will be important at this second, in spite of the trouble of digesting (the defeat) to acquire extra enjoy,” said Dias.
“We have an excessively younger technology with a large number of high quality and we need to have religion that not anything is misplaced.”