{"id":51060,"date":"2022-06-15T01:15:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-zealand-coach-slams-choice-of-atrocious-uae-referee-for-world-cup-playoff-loss-to-costa-rica\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T01:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T01:15:26","slug":"new-zealand-coach-slams-choice-of-atrocious-uae-referee-for-world-cup-playoff-loss-to-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-zealand-coach-slams-choice-of-atrocious-uae-referee-for-world-cup-playoff-loss-to-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand coach slams choice of &#8216;atrocious&#8217; UAE referee for World Cup playoff loss to Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0614%2Fr1025218_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0614%2Fr1025218_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0614%2Fr1025218_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0614%2Fr1025218_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">New Zealand coach Danny Hay speaks with an official during his team&#8217;s&#8217; loss to Costa Rica. <cite>KARIM JAAFAR \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>New Zealand coach Danny Hay criticized the officiating after his team&#8217;s World Cup playoff defeat on Tuesday, saying he was surprised FIFA appointed a referee from the United Arab Emirates to handle their intercontinental clash against Costa Rica in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Americans won 1-0 to take the last available World Cup slot but only after a contentious VAR decision ruled out a Kiwi equalizer and the New Zealanders also ended the game down to 10 men following the sending off of Kosta Barbarouses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Report: Costa Rica beat NZ to claim final World Cup spot<br \/><strong>&#8211; Don&#8217;t have ESPN?  Get instant access<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I&#8217;m being honest. I thought some of the officiating was absolutely atrocious,&#8221; Hay said at the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The disallowed goal was two players battling for the ball. The foul could have gone to Matt Garbett to start with. Obviously VAR got involved and overturned that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A check for a foul by the VAR decided Garbett had wrestled Oscar Duarte to the ground in the build-up to his cross that led to Chris Wood putting the ball into the net after 39 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t looked closely at the other one,&#8221; Hay said of a second caution for Barbarouses, who was sent off with some 20 minutes left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our analyst, who was watching in the stands, wasn&#8217;t convinced, but we could be proven wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hay says he was stunned by the appointment of Mohammed Abdulla of the United Arab Emirates to handle the one-off game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we looked at what Australia got against Peru last night with good quality European officiating, I thought FIFA made a mistake in such an important game for us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand coach Danny Hay speaks with an official during his team&#8217;s&#8217; loss to Costa Rica. KARIM JAAFAR \/ AFP via Getty Images New Zealand coach Danny Hay criticized the officiating after his team&#8217;s World Cup playoff defeat on Tuesday, saying he was surprised FIFA appointed a referee from the United Arab Emirates to handle &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-zealand-coach-slams-choice-of-atrocious-uae-referee-for-world-cup-playoff-loss-to-costa-rica\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Zealand coach slams choice of &#8216;atrocious&#8217; UAE referee for World Cup playoff loss to Costa Rica<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[21691,21690,5666,304],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0614\/r1025218_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}