Felix Brych (Uruguay vs Costa Rica)

Uruguay - Costa Rica

Referee: Felix Brych

Assistant 1: Mark Borsch

Assistant 2: Stefan Lupp

4th Official: Victor Carrillo

TRR Assessor: James Anderson (Leicestershire)
Date: 14/06/2014
Venue: Estadio Castelao, Fortazela
Kick Off: 17.00
Competition: World Cup Qualifier 
Match Difficulty:  Normal 

THE REFEREE

Foul Detection

EXCELLENT 

Foul detection was generally excellent. He spotted the foul for the pull back on the penalty. However, I just feel he could have avoided all the controversy by giving a bit more evidence of what it was for, as everyone thought it should have been a free kick for handball. However, the penalty was the correct decision.


Positioning

EXCELLENT 

Obviously, the penalty and the red card were the too main talking points of the game. For both of these, Mr Brych was in a superb decision to make the correct decision.

Man Management

GOOD 

Man management was generally very good. However, as already touched on, he could have saved all the confrontation when the penalty was given and just signaled what it was for quicker and clearer so people knew what it was for.

Card Issuing

EXCELLENT 

It was quite obvious that the Argentine's weren't happy with how the game was going and felt that they should of been doing better. And this could be seen in there play with the three yellow cards and the red for them. On another day, with a different referee, there could well have been a couple more cards for what can be described as 'tasty' tackles.

Fitness

EXCELLENT 

Fitness is always a key thing when it comes to the world cup in a different country when it is 30 degrees or more. Mr Brych was always up with play which helped to make the correct decisions.

THE ASSISTANT REFEREES

Assistant 1 - VERY GOOD  [8.5]
Assistant 2 - GOOD  [7.0]

It could be argued that one of Costa Rica's goals were offside and therefore that is why Assistant referee 2 has a lower mark. 



OVERALL

EXCELLENT 

SCORE

9/10