Drogba: Nigeria deserved a penalty for Rojo’s hand ball
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Drogba: Nigeria deserved a penalty for Rojo’s hand ball
Chelsea legend Didier Drogba believes Argentina would have been sent
packing from the competition if the referee was brave enough to award
a second spot kick to Nigeria.
Argentina sneaked through to the last sixteen of the World Cup after a
controversial 2-1 win over Nigeria on Tuesday evening, the fifth time
they beat the three-time African champions by a single goal in the
group stage of the tournament.
There were two big VAR moments in that game in St. Petersburg, with
one favoring the eliminated Super Eagles when Moses converted a
penalty kick in the 49th minute while the other one, a clear handball
by Marcos Rojo, was not awarded in the 75th minute.
”That’s a penalty because he did not read the trajectory of the ball
well, nobody touched him, that’s a bad decision,” Drogba said in his
post-match analysis on the BBC.
”This is a defender’s mistake, he did not read the ball well.
”It is a difficult responsibility to give this penalty as well
because it will take Argentina out of the competition.”
Fellow pundit and Argentina international Pablo Zabaleta disagreed
with Drogba but did not elaborate, simply saying : ”It’s never a
penalty, honestly.”
Nigeria would have qualified for the round of sixteen if the referee
had awarded the penalty and they scored.
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