Referee bottled Ronaldo decision - Sutton
Chris Sutton says referee Enrique Caceres bottled his decision to send off Cristiano Ronaldo after an off the ball incident against Iran.
Attempting to get in front of Morteza Pouraliganji, Ronaldo appeared to catch the Iranian in the face with a flailing arm.
Sutton said: "If it was the other way around, he would have sent off an Iranian player,
"Ronaldo threw his forearm – how can you do that and stay on the pitch?!"
After a lengthy stoppage while he watched replays on the VAR pitch-side TV monitor, the referee deemed it only worthy of a yellow card.
Portugal progressed to the World Cup knockout stages after drawing 1-1 with Iran.
This clip is originally from 5 live Sport, 25 June 2018.
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