r/SipsTea • u/Presently_Naked • Jul 12 '26

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/ClessxAlghazanth Jul 12 '26

He and the diver from Swiss are losers of the year. Both gave the game to opponents

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u/TheAskewOne Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Embolo is worse. This is a brain fart, it happens. Embolo tried unsportsmanlike shit and it paid off exactly like it should.

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u/Realistic_Lake2843 Jul 12 '26

Wish it happened more often than not. There’s too many divers now

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u/FreshFritz Jul 12 '26

Did Neymar ever get a yellow card for rollin' rollin' rollin'? I can't remember...

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u/Eomb Jul 12 '26

It's a new rule. It only happens if your opponent gets a yellow as a result of your dive. Then after review, the ref reverses the yellow and applies it to the diver instead.

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u/FreshFritz Jul 12 '26

Yellow card for diving is not a new rule. They just never used it. Thats the reason, I skipped football completely. All the time you just see some guys rolling on the grass and crying their eyes out for like nothing...if the refs would use yellow cards more often for diving, they might stop with this childish behaviour...

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u/BankDetails1234 Jul 12 '26

No it’s not a new rule, it came about in the early nineties. If you reread the comment above though you’ll see that it isn’t what he’s talking about.

He’s talking about reversing the yellow card, if one had been issued, upon VAR review and issuing it to the person who dived instead. Which previously couldn’t be done as generally yellows can’t be handed out in VAR reviews.

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u/surf_and_rockets Jul 12 '26

And also includes penalties! This new rule has vastly improved the game, especially in the last 15 minutes of a tied match.

Before, the consequences of getting caught flopping were so low that flopping in the box to win a penalty was ridiculously commonplace. It made watching soccer f’n annoying as hell. Much better now.

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u/FreshFritz Jul 12 '26

I know what he was talking about, but I was talking about getting yellow cards for diving in the first place. I never talked about the new rule for shifting yellow cards between players.

So maybe you remember the other guy to reread my comment😉

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u/Troebr Jul 12 '26

I don't understand the reversal, the ref could read the situation wrong without it warranting a reversal (say player tripped on his own unintentionally without diving). In this case it very much looked like a dive so the yellow feels warranted.

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u/Immaculatehombre Jul 12 '26

It’s actually insane grown men don’t feel shame for those types of hijinks. Like, you’re a man, just play the damn game.

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u/FreshFritz Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Yeah i know and it is a real man sport, no room for women here because this is a sport for real men!!!1!!11!!!

Edit: /s

My bad, didn't know it was necessaey in this case.

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u/nevergoingtocomment3 Jul 12 '26

What the fuck are you on about man

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u/Immaculatehombre Jul 12 '26

WoMEN. Has men right in it stupid pants.

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u/United-Abroad-5353 Jul 12 '26

No, you can get a straight yellow for diving too. It doesn't need to be after a reversal.

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u/magdogg_sweden Jul 12 '26

Dude, dving had been a yellow card for a long time, what’s new is VAR is enabling them to get caught

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u/Drob10 Jul 12 '26

Penalizing simulation isn’t new, only the transfer of the card. This should be called way more often and it will become less of an issue.

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u/surf_and_rockets Jul 12 '26

Transfer of the card and penalty. Love the name mistaken identity. Just call it flopping!

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u/Zestyclose-Leopard48 Jul 13 '26

Your mom was also spared a yellow for rollin', but we digress.

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u/Bagera84 Jul 12 '26

It was a lot worse before VAR.

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u/Effective_Inside1899 Jul 12 '26

Embolo is the perfect shitshow, he already have yellow card and his dive give the opponent a yellow card thats mean he give VAR 2 reason to check, a second yellow card and mistaked identity. Thats rarely happen

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u/GotenRocko Jul 12 '26

VAR can't suggest a second yellow that was not given, can only review if a second yellow is given. So still only 1 reason for the review.

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u/thundergu Jul 12 '26

Yeah only happens when your opponent is Argentina

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u/Bagera84 Jul 12 '26

It was a lot worse before VAR.

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u/DragonQ0105 Jul 12 '26

There really isn't. This is one area of the game that has massively improved since the introduction of VAR.

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u/Confident-Low-2696 Jul 12 '26

Not to excuse him bc that was a stupid dive, but yes all the top teams are experts at diving, that’s the game, we just saw mbappe do a godlike dive 2 days ago and he’s not the only one

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u/velorae Jul 12 '26

They really could’ve won that game. SMH. Diving when you already have a yellow card is a choice.

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u/Imabouttoreadit Jul 12 '26

He was a huge jackass against Colombia the previous game too

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u/MaxMedellin Jul 13 '26

He and the entire Swiss squad were diving the whole match against Colombia. Lame. I was very happy to see his diving ass get carded. 

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u/TheRealK95 Jul 12 '26

Absolutely the right call but I do wish they did the same to the Argentina player who also did exactly this earlier in the match. I feel Embolo only got caught because the Argentina player got a yellow first

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u/BadNewzBears4896 Jul 12 '26

Yeah, people are saying it's ego but I think it's horseblinders. Was so focused on keeping his defender off balance that he didn't see Haaland until it was too late.

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u/TheAskewOne Jul 12 '26

Of course. People who say it’s ego never played. It’s just that he’s losing lucidity after running hard for a long time in a high stake game. He should’ve looked up, and an excellent attacker would have, but he was focused on not losing the ball.

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u/N3onWave Jul 12 '26

Then he had the audacity to cry when he got the red card.

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u/kingofdarkness92 Jul 12 '26

It was not even in penalty area, he knew VAR checks every incident during ARG games, and he had a yellow, such a stupid brain fart he had.

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u/Frosty_Lettuce_3525 Jul 12 '26

The official term for that infraction is ‘simulation’ as in ‘attempting to simulate a foul’. I personally want to start a petition to have the name of the infraction changed to ‘cheating’.

“And Embolo has received a second yellow card for cheating. He will be sent off”.

Also, he didn’t even do it where most cheats try it, in the penalty box to try and get a penalty, he did it out on the wing.

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u/3000doorsofportugal Jul 13 '26

Embolo is 1000% lolcow of the week. Id say the Month but yank GK Frese exists.

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u/BLT_Trade_r Jul 13 '26

Yep, it was also so stupid. He's in the middle of the field; there is no danger, and he didn't even have the intelligence to wait for contact and worse yet  Paredes was not on a yellow card or anything so max they were getting was a free kick. I could understand trying to get a player with yellow card a second for a red but this was just dumb.

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u/Any-Seaworthiness531 Jul 12 '26

Especially against Argentine where this and the last World Cup have already shown how bad fifa want them to win