16 ITANOR Krug
Ten-man Italy pretty stoically held on for victory in a must-win game against Norway, having played a man light for seventy minutes. Goalkeeper Gianluca Pagliuca was correctly dismissed, handling outside the penalty area, by the German referee Hellmut Krug, who got the other big decision of the afternoon right, to disallow a Norway equaliser for handling. His presence and tactical approach were quite interesting:
=> Krug was a very confident man on the pitch, and he certainly had no trouble with being a leader in the game. This was a huge advantage to him.
=> The German operated a pretty rigorous foul selection. The players found this quite irritating.
=> In addition, this was the second Norway match running that the referee struggled to assess duels in a convincing manner given their highly physical way of playing. So the players were not only a bit irritated by the referee's foul selection, but perhaps moreover his detection of offences.
=> His pedantic approach was offset by an aesthetic use of advantage, which kept this rather thrilling match flowing.
=> Not a challenging match on a disciplinary control level, Krug used his cards well.
English linesman Roy Pearson played a good onside for the DOGSO red card. Besides that he and Tapio Yli-karro were not really challenged, though the Finn did wrongly flag at 9' (- 0,1).
| Hellmut Krug - 8,3 Tapio Yli-karro - 8,3 Roy Pearson - 8,4 Philip Don GER, FIN, ENG | Italy 1-0 Norway Group Stage |
 Casiraghi (35') - Delaying the Restart | Björnebye (33') - SPA (Impeding) Håland (68') - Persistent Infringement |
 Pagliuca (21') - DOGSO (Handling) |
Krug certainly did not endear himself to the players: The Italians felt he whistled too little, the Norwegian too much. But it is not a popularity contest: The two major decisions - DOGSO and no goal for Norway - were both correct and Krug looked like he had the match completely under control. That's a good performance in my book.
ReplyDeleteThe onside for the DOGSO doesn't appear too difficult to me with the right back staying quite far behind (and not moving forward). Or am I missing something?
ReplyDeleteThe very last situation is quite interesting regarding the handball: The ball was in the penalty area - but was the point of contact also still inside?
In twenty-one matches, I don't think I can genuinely remember a 'crossover' situation correctly assessed besides Pearson here. So I hope you can understand my excitement! :D
DeleteRe. the situation at the end - it's impossible to properly assess it (IMO), but I don't think Krug handled it in the most optimal way. He hadn't returned the game to calm and appeared to blow in the whistle in sth of a panic. But perhaps time was just up :)
I guess nobody will see this now - but I just rewatched the Pearson onside in question, and now I realise what you were saying Philipp.
DeleteThe onside is bloody obvious! I somehow managed to miss the defender on the camera side :D