France u20 2 - 0 Mali u20
WC 2011 u20 group stage · 2011-08-05 Referee: Antonio Arias Alvarenga

Butterfly Effect

Calls

He usually let physical contacts occur without any call. It must be very hard for him to take the whole match undercontrol with such different foul detection. I believe, he should introduce players his attitudes towards the game with his body language or signals more apparently. He was maybe ok with fouls. But I still think, his card management was not that shining. It was Min22 when Konate(MAL) has attacked aiming the ball and kicked it, but his other leg made French down. YC seemto be a little bit harsh for that position. He overruled some more obvious ones in early minutes. Hence,an obvious YC in Min69 resulted in a red.Then, everthing became much more easier for Frenchs. There were some good and wrong offside flags by ARs.

2nd Stage of tournament

We will watch some intresting games on 2nd round: ARG-EYG, BRA-KSA. I am pretty excited about the draws. France will be faced with Ecuador, a draw not so easy for both sides.

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