Cameroon has been robbed

[kolinzo]

Now 3 nil, cameroon have lost their shape

Ofcourse, wouldnt be surprised if England put 6 pass them. If the goal from Cameroon had stood, it would have been a completely different game.

Or if the Cameroonian girl had scored her goal the game would be different.

Chances will always be missed. They´re not in this predicament because that girl didnt score the goal. Football is 70% psychological+preparation and 30 % play. They have succeeding in cracking Cameroon down psychologically.

Not really. If you are psychologically prepared you'll not be psychologically broken down. Cameroon was just unprepared in almost all aspect of the game.

[Oguleftie]

Gosh. A chance for Cameroon to shame the world and score a goal, and the gurl only forced a save.

................."to shame the world"........
There is no shame. VAR enabled the right calls to be made.

VAR does not make calls. This is where you miss its use.

my quote
................"VAR enabled the right calls to be made".
Can you not read it.

I read it quite well. Did you read my response?

Do you then read that what I wrote "VAR enabled the right calls to be made" means that I said VAR makes calls.

[Odas]

Nice effort, Cameroonian Jersey number 6.

[soothsayer]

This English team is not it.

[King Futcha]

This English team is not it.

not sure who they play next, Norway I think, either way they are done next round.

[kolinzo]

The reason why VAR is causing problems in FIFA tournaments is because FIFA doesn't understand the use of it. They are trying so hard to be unique with American technology but in the processing they are making a mole outta hill. Eventually they will get it right. They just have to study it some more.

[marko]

That was no penalty, the English player had the advantage and she was in no scoring position, VAR should never have interfered with that call, if England scored, it would have been a clean goal

Even Phi Neville said after this competition, VAR needs to be looked into

What???? So the one where the Nigerian player cleared the ball but kicked the player in the follow-through was that penalty?

The Nigerian player clearly fouled the French girl, There was contact here but the ref played advantage and the English girl could not convert the chance, different circumstances

[Odas]

It very clear what the problem is.. people wanting a free meal.
These other teams have formed leagues, play regularly. invest tons of money
from youth level , meanwhile we have teams from Africa doing last minute
get together. We get what we put in guys.

What are you saying - Sir? Is what you said the reason we always get the bad end of the referees' calls?

[marko]

Just hope there are lessons learned from all African teams but most important the football authorities in Africa, you cannot bring half baked teams to these tournaments, their counterparts invest so much into women football like someone pointed out, you reap what you sow in life

[kolinzo]

Gosh. A chance for Cameroon to shame the world and score a goal, and the gurl only forced a save.

................."to shame the world"........
There is no shame. VAR enabled the right calls to be made.

VAR does not make calls. This is where you miss its use.

my quote
................"VAR enabled the right calls to be made".
Can you not read it.

I read it quite well. Did you read my response?

Do you then read that what I wrote "VAR enabled the right calls to be made" means that I said VAR makes calls.

No. Okay...I see you still don't understand that " with/without VAR the refs will still make the call." This means VAR WILL NOT ENABLE the refs to make the right calls. Once the fix is in it's in.

[marko]

Cameroon had a few decent chances as well to score a few i must say

[soothsayer]

Gosh. A chance for Cameroon to shame the world and score a goal, and the gurl only forced a save.

................."to shame the world"........
There is no shame. VAR enabled the right calls to be made.

VAR does not make calls. This is where you miss its use.

my quote
................"VAR enabled the right calls to be made".
Can you not read it.

I read it quite well. Did you read my response?

Do you then read that what I wrote "VAR enabled the right calls to be made" means that I said VAR makes calls.

No. Okay...I see you still don't understand that " with/without VAR the refs will still make the call." This means VAR WILL NOT ENABLE the refs to make the right calls. Once the fix is in it's in.

Valid point my man, VAR is being used for close calls , sometimes even VAR can't clear things up. It is still possible for a referee to make the wrong call.

[kolinzo]

Just hope there are lessons learned from all African teams but most important the football authorities in Africa, you cannot bring half baked teams to these tournaments, their counterparts invest so much into women football like someone pointed out, you reap what you sow in life

Correct. But I have come to realize that thiis investment is nothing but "time investment." If Africa must make some noise in like say...3 world cups from now...the 7 year olds and below must be playing competitive soccer by now (that goes for both male and female). But we don't have that time in Africa.

[Oguleftie]

That was no penalty, the English player had the advantage and she was in no scoring position, VAR should never have interfered with that call, if England scored, it would have been a clean goal

Even Phi Neville said after this competition, VAR needs to be looked into

What???? So the one where the Nigerian player cleared the ball but kicked the player in the follow-through was that penalty?

The Nigerian player clearly fouled the French girl, There was contact here but the ref played advantage and the English girl could not convert the chance, different circumstances

The rules are clear. Let me explain this.
The Falcons player missed the ball & in that case the German player was available to then make a play on the ball which she could not because the German player was kicked preventing her to make a play on the ball.

In today's case, the England player had already passed the ball to her teammate who had the chance to score a score; hence no penalty. If the England player stepped on only moved the ball to continue to score a goal then it would have been a penalty.

[The Goddess]

Now 3 nil, cameroon have lost their shape

Ofcourse, wouldnt be surprised if England put 6 pass them. If the goal from Cameroon had stood, it would have been a completely different game.

Or if the Cameroonian girl had scored her goal the game would be different.

Chances will always be missed. They´re not in this predicament because that girl didnt score the goal. Football is 70% psychological+preparation and 30 % play. They have succeeding in cracking Cameroon down psychologically.

Not really. If you are psychologically prepared you'll not be psychologically broken down. Cameroon was just unprepared in almost all aspect of the game.

Wrong, very wrong. It´s not like Cameroon has a superior team to england. Being the underdog, they had to psych up themselves and push themselves up to an equal level. Beating them down, is just very unfair.

[marko]

Just hope there are lessons learned from all African teams but most important the football authorities in Africa, you cannot bring half baked teams to these tournaments, their counterparts invest so much into women football like someone pointed out, you reap what you sow in life

Correct. But I have come to realize that thiis investment is nothing but "time investment." If Africa must make some noise in like say...3 world cups from now...the 7 year olds and below must be playing competitive soccer by now (that goes for both male and female). But we don't have that time in Africa.

Absolutely correct, too much fire brigade approach, the Europeans will start planning as soon as this competition finishes, they have an advantage over African sides before a ball is even kicked

Cameroon number 7 needs to calm down

[marko]

Just saw the replay, there was a foot but was she caught late?

[Oguleftie]

Gosh. A chance for Cameroon to shame the world and score a goal, and the gurl only forced a save.

................."to shame the world"........
There is no shame. VAR enabled the right calls to be made.

VAR does not make calls. This is where you miss its use.

my quote
................"VAR enabled the right calls to be made".
Can you not read it.

I read it quite well. Did you read my response?

Do you then read that what I wrote "VAR enabled the right calls to be made" means that I said VAR makes calls.

No. Okay...I see you still don't understand that " with/without VAR the refs will still make the call." This means VAR WILL NOT ENABLE the refs to make the right calls. Once the fix is in it's in.

I never said VAR makes calls.

[The Goddess]

Just hope there are lessons learned from all African teams but most important the football authorities in Africa, you cannot bring half baked teams to these tournaments, their counterparts invest so much into women football like someone pointed out, you reap what you sow in life

Correct. But I have come to realize that thiis investment is nothing but "time investment." If Africa must make some noise in like say...3 world cups from now...the 7 year olds and below must be playing competitive soccer by now (that goes for both male and female). But we don't have that time in Africa.

Absolutely correct, too much fire brigade approach, the Europeans will start planning as soon as this competition finishes, they have an advantage over African sides before a ball is even kicked

Cameroon number 7 needs to calm down

Exactly, that´s why africans can easily crack down psychologically.

[soothsayer]

Damn thats a sending off.

[kolinzo]

Now 3 nil, cameroon have lost their shape

Ofcourse, wouldnt be surprised if England put 6 pass them. If the goal from Cameroon had stood, it would have been a completely different game.

Or if the Cameroonian girl had scored her goal the game would be different.

Chances will always be missed. They´re not in this predicament because that girl didnt score the goal. Football is 70% psychological+preparation and 30 % play. They have succeeding in cracking Cameroon down psychologically.

Not really. If you are psychologically prepared you'll not be psychologically broken down. Cameroon was just unprepared in almost all aspect of the game.

Wrong, very wrong. It´s not like Cameroon has a superior team to england. Being the underdog, they had to psych up themselves and push themselves up to an equal level. Beating them down, is just very unfair.

Not really. If you are psychologically prepared you will not be psychologically broken down. You may be physically broken down buy not psychologically broken down.

[Enugu II]

The Cameroonian players wanted to walkout and their stupid coach made stay and play. That was dumb from the coach. At that point they were psychologically done with this match and should have rightfully walked out in protest. That would have been effective in this age of social media and served as wake up call for FIFA.

That is no reason to walk off. The coach DID THE RIGHT thing. Yes, the girls were demoralized and felt cheated. But reality is that the VAR was actually correct on all those calls even the second goal by England. If you took a look at England's goal, the Cameroon fightback kept the goal scorer insides. Let me also add that that opportunity to score that Cameron had saved by the keeper would have been rightly chalked off for offsides if she had scored. In that case, two players were clearly offside and one of them received the ball but the England goalie had it cleared.

Now, do I believe the VAR guys have always made the right call? Not at all. For instance, I felt the first German goal yesterday against Nigeria should have been canceled because a German girl, in an offsides position, interfered with the play. But on today's calls, no matter how frustrated we all were by the calls, they were the correct calls.

[kolinzo]

Do you then read that what I wrote "VAR enabled the right calls to be made" means that I said VAR makes calls.

No. Okay...I see you still don't understand that " with/without VAR the refs will still make the call." This means VAR WILL NOT ENABLE the refs to make the right calls. Once the fix is in it's in.[/quote]

I never said VAR makes calls.[/quote]
I never said you did. But I said you are missing the fact that refs still make the calls no matter what the VAR shows them.