@n.y.b.y.o.a: Adu Brought Down By Konsa: Clear Penalty, Full Stop, Even England Legends Agreed Ghana held England to 0-0, but we walked off with fire in our chest, not joy. Late on, Prince Kwabena Adu burst into the box. Ezri Konsa slid in, missed the ball, took Adu’s knee. Referee said play on. VAR didn’t even blink. Ghana Coach Carlos Queiroz should have been agitating on the pitch to catch the referee attention to go and watch, not to come and complain after the match, the harm has been done. Coaches like Mourinho, Guardiola, Simeone will agitate to the extent of catching the referee attention to watch VAR. They fight assistant referees on it. They make noise until the ref has no choice but to check. That’s what top-level management looks like. And Prince too should have stayed down. Stay down long. Stay down until you can’t play again if you have to. Catch the referee’s attention. That’s part of the game. The psychological games must come to play. You think if it was Kane, Saka, or Madueke in that moment they would have just jumped up like that? No chance. I’m not even the one to teach this. A player should know all these. The Messis, the Ronaldos, the Haalands, blah, they all do it. You force the ref to make a decision. The players too didn’t try. They switched off instead of surrounding the ref and demanding the monitor. In big games, you don’t wait for justice. You demand it. Our Asamoah Gyans, Stephen Appiahs, Michael Essiens, Sulley Muntaris, legends who’ve been there at the crucial moments, should be in the boys’ ears. They’ve walked that path before. They know what robbery feels like. At that moment you make the world know: lie on the pitch, wail, roll from one end to the other, tap the ground with your hands. Make the stadium feel it. Make the ref feel it. Make VAR feel it. And this isn’t just Ghana talking. Even English citizens saw it. Others who have played for their countries at the crucial level saw it. Wayne Rooney, England legend, watched it and said: "I think that's a penalty. Konsa gets the man, not the ball. That could easily have been given in my view." Darren Cann, ex-Premier League assistant ref who’s been there at the highest level: "For me this should have been referred... Konsa makes absolutely no contact at all with the ball, he brings down his opponent. For me this was a penalty kick." FIFA’s Pierluigi Collina says VAR has a higher threshold this World Cup. The fact that VAR has a higher threshold doesn’t mean clear fouls stop being fouls. Ghana defended with heart. But heart alone won’t win you decisions. You fight for them. SeLaH!!! Nana Yaw Boakye Yiadom Opoku Agyemang, Ghanaian Citizen #ghanatiktok🇬🇭 #england #uk #fifa #worldcup

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