Thank to Árbitro Internacional, we have the appointments for the competition. Laura Fortunato will officiate Bronze Medal game while Anastasia Pustovoitova Gold and Silver Medals match.
Olympic Football - Tokyo 2020 - Women
Finals
5 - 6 August 2021
Bronze Medal
Referee: Laura Fortunato (ARG)
Assistant Referee 1: Mariana de Almeida (ARG)
Assistant Referee 2: Mary Blanco (COL)
Fourth Official: Stephanie Frappart (FRA)
Reserve Assistant Referee: Bernadettar Kwimbira (MWI)
Video Assistant Referee: Mauro Vigliano (ARG)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Andres Cunha (URU)
Assistant Referee 1: Mariana de Almeida (ARG)
Assistant Referee 2: Mary Blanco (COL)
Fourth Official: Stephanie Frappart (FRA)
Reserve Assistant Referee: Bernadettar Kwimbira (MWI)
Video Assistant Referee: Mauro Vigliano (ARG)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Andres Cunha (URU)
Gold and Silver Medals
Sweden - CanadaReferee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Ekaterina Kurochkina (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Sanja Rodak (CRO)
Fourth Official: Salima Mukansanga (RWA)
Reserve Assistant Referee: Kyoung Min Kim (KOR)
Video Assistant Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee:Marco Guida (ITA)
I must say, excellent prediction by Philipp S. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteSo performance principle was applied, Edina Alves Batista didn't convince committee this time.
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Pustovoitova for Gold Medal match, official.
ReplyDeleteOlympic Football Finals - Tokyo 2020 - Women
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Sweden vs Canada
Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Ekaterina Kurochkina (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Sanja Rodak (CRO)
Fourth Official: Salima Mukansanga (RWA)
Reserve Assistant Referee: Kyoung Min Kim (KOR)
Video Assistant Referee:
Assistant Video Assistant Referee:
I'm very surprised that a UEFA referee has been appointed to a game involving a UEFA team. Alves must have done something badly wrong not to get a medal game, which should have meant that Fortunato got the gold medal game and Pustovoitova got the bronze medal game. "Neutral" officials should have been appointed. Hopefully SWECAN will be as good as AUSUSA.
DeleteSoares Dias apita a final olímpica. Oficial.
ReplyDeleteOn a Spain/Brazil final? Seems unlikely. Bronze medal match perhaps.
DeleteAlso Soares Dias has a Champions League match next week so he certainly isn't doing the Gold Medal final in Japan.
DeleteI don't see an appointment for Soares Dias in CL for next week on UEFA website.
DeleteYep it changed to Grinfeld. I guess he probably has a medal game after all.
DeleteWhy would a Spain/Brazil final make Soares Diaz unlikely? He is neither Spanish nor Brazilian…
DeleteMy prediction for men's matches
ReplyDeleteJPN-MEX: Gonzalez (URU) - Soares Dias (POR) - Cunha (URU), Steinhaus (GER)
ESP-BRA: Gomes (RSA) - Beath (AUS) - Ming (CHN), Martins (POR)
Gomes posted in instagram his medal: he is already in South Africa.
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Japan vs Mexico
Referee: Bamlak Tessema (ETH)
Assistant Referee 1: Mohammed Ibrahim (SDN)
Assistant Referee 2: Gilbert Cheruiyot (KEN)
Fourth Official: Matt Conger (NZL)
Reserve Assistant Referee: Mark Rule (NZL)
Video Assistant Referee:
Assistant Video Assistant Referee:
Video Assistant Referee: Benoit Millot (FRA)
DeleteAssistant Video Assistant Referee 1: Tiago Martins (POR)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee 2 : Guillermo Cuadra (ESP)
I'm quite sure that gold medal final will be an internal match between Elfath and Barton.
ReplyDeleteFor bronze medal final I don't see possibilities for Uefa officials because all of them seem back in Europe. Probably Tessema or Leodan are the righe names
And the final goes to.....the american ref !!!
ReplyDelete[#Tokyo2020 ] México vs Japón
ReplyDeleteA: Bamlak Tessema (ETH)
A1: Mohammed Ibrahim (SDN)
A2: Gilbert Cheruiyot (KEN)
4to: Matt Conger (NZL)
5to: Mark Rule (NZL)
VAR: Benoit Millot (FRA)
AVAR: Tiago Martins (POR)
AVAR 2: Guillermo Cuadra (ESP)
UPDATED WITH VAR
Source: Arbitro Internacional
Sweden vs Canada
ReplyDeleteReferee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Ekaterina Kurochkina (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Sanja Rodak (CRO)
Fourth Official: Salima Mukansanga (RWA)
Reserve Assistant Referee: Kyoung Min Kim (KOR)
Video Assistant Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee:Marco Guida (ITA)
So assumptions about Guida an Millot leaving early for their UEFA appointments were apparently wrong.
ReplyDeleteGood sign to have a female VAR in the women's final - but hopefully not the only reason for the nomination. Probably they also liked her intervention in Frappart's QF.
For those making the clips :)
ReplyDeleteAUSUSA [W]
42' - penalty incident: kicking
46' - penalty incident: handball
49' - penalty incident: handball
70' - disallowed goal: blatant offside (AR2)
97+ - penalty incident: tripping
María Laura Fortunato faced a relatively easy game involving open play, many goals and few fouls. The only YC that could've been shown was a tackle in 51'. I liked her overall approach, being in the shadow of players but visibly focused through the whole match. Good job by the Argentine!
Can you provide links to your situation?
ReplyDelete42' - https://streamable.com/z5lm08
Delete46' - https://streamable.com/wvwc31
49' - https://streamable.com/pd28x5
97+ - https://streamable.com/4e8uns
Thanks for the clips, IMO
Delete42' Correct decision, as the AUS player swings out her leg in order to shoot the ball away and accidentally slightly hits the USA player who puts her foot in front of the defender's foot.
46'+49' Again correct, ball isn't expected in both cases and the arm positions are a result of the typical football movements.
90+7' Should be rather an offensive FK, foul by the AUS player.
42': We really need some consistency here. Here the USA player clearly gets the ball first (in a fair manner) and then is kicked from behind. It's hard to explain to give the penalty in the SF but not here.
Delete42' is a PK for me, similiar to the incidents we talked about in the last few days (SVKESP). The difference here is, that Rapinoe does not just put her foot between, but she actually plays the ball, at this point she is in possesion of the ball and gets kicked. I think the force of the kick is not negligable, so PK for me.
DeleteI agree with the other calls, good job!
46' - In the first replay I think we can detect an arm move towards the ball what helps the player in controlling the ball. What do you think?
DeleteI agree that consistency is needed in incidents as 42' - and with Monzul's penalty, it's quite difficult to find explantions here, but I still disagree with penalties in those situations.
DeleteWhat more can the defender do? https://ibb.co/K2844v4
They have a similar distance to the ball, both are fully focused on the ball; the defender swings her leg out, starting a normal fluent shooting movement. Unluckily, the attacker is a little bit earlier on the ball and she therefore hits her slightly. Okay, probably my argumentation isn't even within the LotG anymore - but just some food for thought :)
The 46' scene is more difficult than I thought at first.
Until here, it is a normal football movement for me: https://ibb.co/r68JyrM
But then, the AUS player slightly moves it towards the ball: I doubt that this is justifiable by her body movement: https://ibb.co/zHjyKdx
Based on that, it would be a penalty. But it shows how difficult this new rule can be and we certainly cannot look into her head here..
I don't really see, why doing a normal movement would justify what happened. E.g., for sliding tackles, players also do normal movements, but the result is highly dependent on the opponent's action. If the other player gets the ball first, you have lost the duel, and can either pull back or foul the opponent. So if you don't want to risk a foul, you need to be more cautious (That's what the defender can do). I don't really see a problem with such an interpretation. Of course, nobody wants a lot of penalties, but I believe, that defenders would adapt their behaviour, if this is consistently punished - and this could lead to more attacking action in the best case.
DeleteOf course, it's different, if the attacker doesn't even try to play the ball, but is just looking for the foul. But once there is a genuine (and then successful) attempt by the attacker to win the ball, foul is the correct decision IMO.
And this should obviously also count the other way around. If the attacker is trying to shoot and the defender manages to put a leg in front of him and play the ball, a following kick by the attacker should be considered as a foul.
100% agree with Philipp S. Same rules should apply for defenders and attackers alike.
DeleteI wonder if Frappart's two VAR reversals (PK rescinded and YC to wrong player) hurt her chances for a medal match.
ReplyDeleteNo, I also think that they need to broaden their pool of referees. Frappart also got a WWC final in 2019; what does it say if the same referee does the two biggest finals back-to-back?
DeleteYes, true.
DeletePenalty situation at 64'. In my view, a clear penalty for a tackle on Sinclair. The way the ball bounced it could have been tough to see in real time (though not overly difficult, we could have expected the correct decision), but nevertheless a clear and obvious foul.
ReplyDeletePenalty awarded after 1 minute OFR.
OFR requested
In the first replay, it indeed looked like there was not enough contact. But in the other angle it became clear that the leg contact was the reason for Sinclair to fall - and therefore a correct penalty.
DeleteIt got quite intense towards the end of the 90', with a couple sloppy challenges. Pustovoitova largely let play continue. Perhaps a tad of frustration on the Canadian side, but nothing major to report.
ReplyDeleteAnd now (likely) on to extra time.
I'm looking for a video of the penalty incident in Sweden - Canada, Eurosport has decided that the official highlights must show only PSO sequence...
ReplyDeletehttps://streamable.com/eigp47
DeleteThank you, the incident is indeed very similar to the one in Silver Medal game. I think we must find onsistency about that, I agree with the discussion. For me these situations are perceived as not a clear and obvious mistake for a VAR intevention, so I rather agree with supporting referee in the other game and not with this OFR. Must be something very clear to make such a call. Again I want to repeat, the use of VAR is not perfect, it can't be perfect of course, but in front of very similar situations, committees should give clear guidelines, otherwise you have a second officiating with a different discretion game after game. Is that good?
DeleteI don't really think, this penalty is similar to the other situations. Here the defender just makes a bad tackle and only hits the standing leg of the attacker, who is nearer to the ball all the time. Might be difficult to see for the referee, but with the angle at 1:58 in the clip it becomes clear.
DeleteBasically, the defender is in the clearly worse position and she hits the attacker's leg too much. I'm not a fan of 'cheap'/unavoidable penalties, but here the foul is too clear, it's just a risky and dumb action by the defender, so penalty is the only correct outcome IMO (VAR intervention is totally in line with the tournament, in UEFA and Co. we wouldn't have seen an OFR I think).
DeleteIMO good intervention. The first replay I thought the attacker went down easy, but the second replay shows the force of the contact very well - PK. I have to say those 'trips', where there is contact at the thigh-area, it's always quite hard to see how much force there was.
DeleteI applaud FIFA's sensical and IMO proper use of VAR during this tournament. This approach has surely done a lot towards convincing those who still held doubts of the usefulness of the system.
ReplyDeleteTo think that without this VAR approach. Canada may not have made it to the Final. Nor would they have been given the opportunity to score the tying goal today.
Congrats Canada, the curse of Pedersen and London 2012 has been officially exorcised.
SWECAN [W]
ReplyDeleteThe game started well for the referee - no tension, slow pace, almost nothing happened for more than twenty minutes. Anastasiya Pustovoytova implemented a quite lenient style, not giving cheap free kicks although players timidly asked for them here and there.
The first serious offence came in 26' when #16 CAN committed a reckless tackle. To her surprise, the focused referee immediately reached for a yellow card what deserves the praise as the trailing leg movement was indeed nasty.
In 33' there was an interesting Sweden's penalty appeal after alleged handball of #5 CAN but unfortunately no replay was shown... It is worth to note that VAR was extremely quick in confirming the call.
Between 36' and 38' three harder challenges were made. #10 SWE started, #17 CAN replied some seconds later. Avoiding cautions was understandable but a stronger warnings would be optimal. Instead, Pustovoytova had a quick word with #11 CAN who still carelessly kicked an opponent a minute later.
In 42' #10 SWE bumped into GK CAN what infuriated the latter. The Russian quickly separated both players and also in this case chose to have a quick word with GK CAN, most likely assessing the Swede's challenge as not malicious (rather rightly so).
Both teams started the second half with a faster way of playing football. The first infringement came in 53' when #6 SWE deliberately ran into GK CAN when she tried to release the ball, scuppering a chance for a quick counterattack. Pustovoytova awarded a free kick but nothing followed. It's very difficult for the referees to deal with such challenges nowadays. In the past it was a mandatory yellow card but for some years we are tought to not show the card unless it's a very clear SPA. How to assess it in the penalty area of an attacking team? According to this instruction, I think a strong public warning would've been optimal.
Three minutes later, #16 SWE stepped on an opponent's foot in a careless-reckless manner. No sanction from the Russian referee who continued her lenient approach.
In 64' we faced the biggest refereeing incident of this game. It looked like #13 SWE played the ball in her penalty area but in fact she kicked an opponent by a knee. Pustovoytova, who had not the best viewing angle, showed the ball gesture and it was understandable she perceived this incident in this way. After a minute of waiting, VAR rightly recommended an on-field review. The kick was significant to such an extent that even if the ball was played afterward, it should've been a penalty, too. The only correct decision was to award a penalty kick to Canada what was the case.
Nothing more worth of report happened in the second half, maybe apart from the FK given for a foul (accidental slap in face) that occurred before a corner kick execution (62') and, according to the line presented by Pustovoytova, too easy flag signals for fouls by assistants (73', 90').
We went into the extra time. The change of play was visible from that moment. More physical duels, more tension and nervousness. One minute before a break #9 SWE committed a very stupid trailing leg tackle close to AR1. Instant booking was the only option.
DeleteIn 115' we had the second handball penalty appeal of Swedish team. VAR was checking it carefully but once again, like in 33', we didn't see any replay...
Anastasiya Pustovoytova showed that she doesn't pay much attention to delaying the restart, according to current trend in UEFA. The minor incidents in 31' and 71' can be ignored if it's your laid-back style that the Russian visibly adapted in this game, the standing one meter in front of the ball when your opponent want to quickly execute a free kick should not be ignored (120').
During kicks from the penalty mark, we could observe that the referee team missed or ignored that GK SWE was not on the goal line where it meets the penalty area boundary line when her teammates were shooting.
In general, it was a good, expected performance. High threshold for a foul being whistled, very good card selection. I wouldn't blame Pustovoytova for misjudging the penalty incident, it was a hard one. However, I would like to see attempts to calm the atmosphere down after some harder challenges, delaying the restart, fouls on GK, etc. To be clear, I think the overall laid-back approach worked well in this specific game but in a hotter game such details can matter. I also observed such a tendency to let borderline things go without a word/warn at Sergey Ivanov (also sometimes at Sergey Karasyov), so maybe it's a Russian refereeing style. I think it would be good to work on that in order to be well prepared for challenging games.
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