Beside major decisions going against one, what type of bad refereeing display impacts a team the most? I'll elaborate in thread 1) Overly lenient on fouls 2) Fouls called when clean tackles 3) Overly cheap yellows for an aggressive team 4) No yellows for opponent v a clean team
3-IMO quickdraw Mcgraw refs dishing out yellows for next to nothing for aggressive teams = doesn't happen so often anymore but this would probs be the worst, even refs in the champs league are more lenient than before. Argentina v Netherlands was a rare 1 off but for both teams.
Personally I feel teams that don't get given fouls when they are tend to respond with more sloppy ball control and worse dribbling cos wanna over-burst past opponent with revenge+start throwing themselves on the floor to give the ref a chance to even it out/justice-rarely get it.
2) Fouls when clean tackles=the least damaging. Bellingham isn't going to change his tackling technique unlike a dribbler not changing his method of dribbling when not getting fouls+the victimized team tend to rally-e.g. PSG chelsea when ibra got wrongfully sent off v oscar.
4) Slowdraw Mcgraw for a dirty team v a clean ball playing team is quite bad too, seen a few when Chelsea get under the skins of Barca and arsenal under the Wenger many a time, the opponent usually do it away from the ref's vision or when the ball has just been released and, TBC
4 continued: Arsenal in retaliation start lunging themselves and get booked because the ref senses violence and aren't cute with their fouls + players end up passing the ball too early when there is time to hold it because they fear to get fouled=easier to defend for opponent.
So in order personally, option 3 is last because it rarely occurs and at the top end of football-the discrepancy between the aggression of 2 teams shouldn't be that big.
1 is also not the worst- the refs in this prem season have done that for the sake of the match, not a team.
Very rarely do you see a ref blow cheap fouls for one team and nothing to the other.
2- again, usually just genuine mistakes as opposed to a ref mindset. If a mindset thing it's usually yellows for actual fouls that aren't that bad.
4) for me is in practice the worst. Cos tbc
As I've already said the way the victim team for 4 starts to attack/dribble and even defend changes drastically. Leniency is usually a match mindset for both teams-one that has been praised this season in the prem,albeit yes1 will be worse off #Worldcup#referee#pierluigicollina
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