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No complaints but open wounds for Paraguay coach
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No complaints but open wounds for Paraguay coach
PHILADELPHIA, July 4 : After Paraguay were knocked out of the World Cup 1-0 by France following a penalty awarded after a VAR review, Albirroja manager Gustavo Alfaro said he could not criticise the decision of Uzbek referee Ilgiz Tantashev.Tantashev initially waved play on after Desire Doue went down under Diego Gomez’s challenge, but changed his mind after he was summoned to the VAR monitor."I saw it at the VAR screen when they were looking at it," Alfaro said. “I was behind the referee, and I cannot be objective."The referee has a first impression. He says that the player had thrown (himself) trying to generate contact. Then VAR ratifies that it is a penalty, according to them. "I'm going to look at it more in depth. And when I am looking at the game play, of course, he's in the air, he
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