At the time of the 2022 World Cup elimination, Pepe pointed the finger at referee Facundo Tello, saying that “it is unacceptable for an Argentinian referee to blow the whistle on Portugal’s game, after what happened yesterday while Messi and Argentina are talking were,” the defense attorney said, accusing the judge of being “very admissible.”
The complaints of the Portuguese defender of Facundo Tello’s work went even further. “I’m not saying it’s conditioned, but what did we play in the second half? Nothing. Their goalkeeper was always stopped, he only gave eight minutes of stoppage time. We work very seriously and the referee gives eight minutes if we don’t play.” playing in the second half,” shot, adding that the team was “always on point”.
The one who also complained about the referee was Bruno Fernandes. “We knew what kind of umpires we would find in the league when we started it,” he began by saying, then continued: “There were a lot of minutes when the game was stopped: at least, in the second half there were 15 or 20 minutes of stoppage time. We knew we were going to play against more than Morocco and we had to solve it in 90 minutes.”
On how the game went, Bruno Fernandes said it was “difficult to put into words”. “It is a difficult and sad moment for us. We had ambition and quality for more. There is always something else we can leave on the pitch, but the performance and commitment were total. The big difference was that we failed to to score goals.” and they defended very well,” he concluded.
However, Bernardo Silva admitted that the second half was “a bit desperate”, after Morocco took the lead at the end of the first half.
The Portuguese midfielder said there was a “sense of frustration at not being able to make history”. “What I can say to the Portuguese is sorry, because we wanted to do much better,” he decided not to hide his disappointment.
Rúben Dias, in turn, regretted not achieving a draw. “We tried everything and we didn’t reach the goal, but the most important thing right now is to get more experience. We have a very young generation, with a lot of quality and we have to have that belief, that nothing is lost,” he underlined.
Source: DN
