Ghana coach upset with Portugal penalty call
GHANA coach Otto Addo has strongly criticized the awarding of a penalty which allowed Portugal to open the scoring in their 3-2 World Cup win on Thursday. Cristiano Ronaldo won the penalty and converted it to become the first man to score at five World Cups, but Addo felt his defender Mohammed Salisu had touched the ball first.
“We play the ball and then there is contact. I don’t know what they did, if the video referee was asleep. The fact that they don’t even look at this scene is madness,” the former Bundesliga player told reporters.“It was a wrong decision.” Addo added: “I asked if I could have a quick word with the referee after the game. I got the answer that he was in a meeting and this was not possible. It would have been nice if he could have had a few minutes for the coach.”
Portugal coach Fernando Santos retorted: “If the video referee thought there was something wrong, he would have intervened. He didn’t. So I guess there was nothing to see.”