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Senegal Exit the World Cup : On number of yellow cards
The last African team that had the chance to qualify for the Round of 16 , Senegal, has been knocked out on a "fair play" tie-breaker rule introduced in the 2018 World Cup where Yellow/Red cards are added up for fair play points.
Now Senegal and Japan were locked on points, Goal difference, etc, but In my opinion, extra time, and a penalty shootout would be much more a better way to go about settling situations like that, especially because Africans play a more Athletic,Physical, style of football.
Most of the other players that go diving in the grass like mental dolphins (If you watched Iran vs Morocco, everybody appeared to have glass bones , going to ground whenever possible ) looked less like world cup and more like clumsy cup. Players don't get penalized for such things, people are booked depending on the referee's "mood" (Ref,Morocco vs Spain: 4 yellow cards for Morroco in 10 minutes).
So i think they should look to have that rule sorted, but in the end, thats football.
This was so tough for Senegal, they deserved so much more! It’s crazy that it came down to yellow cards. Has that ever happened before? It’s a shame bc they were a really good team, just lacked a real top goal scorer
This was literally the first time in history a team has gone out on yellow cards, they couldn't get more unlucky than that. A lot of their players, although not fancy dribblers, were good all round ballers imo. Very unlucky!
First time? Damn. Yeah they were a fun team to watch, Mane etc, and even we’re beating Columbia in the first half. Poor dudes 😑