{"id":783718,"date":"2026-07-06T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783718\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:24:14","slug":"as-soon-as-i-saw-the-replay-my-heart-was-in-my-mouth-controversial-mexico-penalty-decision-splits-england-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783718\/","title":{"rendered":"‘As soon as I saw the replay, my heart was in my mouth’ Controversial Mexico penalty decision splits England opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinions were divided as to whether or not Mexico should have had the chance to peg England back to 3-2 in their World Cup round of 16 clash.<\/p>\n

In perhaps the game of the tournament so far, Raul Jimenez was took the chance to score from the spot and trim back ten-man England’s<\/a> lead.<\/p>\n

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But the BBC punditry team were divided on whether or not the referee got the decision right after reviewing footage on the pitchside VAR screen.<\/p>\n

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Jarell Quansah was rightly dismissed for this challenge after a VAR review (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

With Engalnd 2-1 up, Jarell Quanash was sent off for England after a VAR review correctly determined that his high sliding challenge on Jesus Gallardo amounted to serious foul play.<\/p>\n

But England extended their lead shortly afterwards in an absolutely breathless game, with Kane<\/a> converting from the penalty spot after Mexico goalkeeper Raul Rangel brought down Anthony Gordon inside the box.<\/p>\n

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Jordan Pickford moved the wrong way before Raul Jimenez scored his penalty (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Alan Shearer<\/a> did not feel a spot kick should be given, saying after first seeing the replay: “Is that a clear and obvious error made by the referee? He had him in one of the first games, didn’t he (France vs Senegal), when he didn’t give [Kylian Mbappe] that penalty.”<\/p>\n

The Australian official did give the spot kick, though, leaving Shearer to continue to insist he thought the decision was harsh.<\/p>\n

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BBC referee analyst Darren Cann agreed, saying: “Yes, it is a penalty.<\/p>\n

“Harry Kane, unfortunately, does kick the Mexican’s foot. It’s a little bit similar to the Modric kick that England won a penalty for in the first group game, where Harry Kane is unaware of the player coming in. Unfortunately, he does make contact. It is a foul. It’s in the penalty box, it’s a penalty.<\/p>\n

“This is the only referee who has been sent to the monitor this World Cup and actually stuck with a decision that was the France-Senegal game with the Mbappe penalty [shout],<\/a> but on this on this occasion it’s the correct decision. Penalty kick.”<\/p>\n

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Jordan Pickford was unable to get to Raul Jimenez’s penalty (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Former England goalkeeper Joe Hart<\/a> agreed with Cann, saying: “On all three decisions, I think the referee’s come to the right decision.<\/p>\n

“I know Alan is very keen to say that wasn’t a penalty, and obviously everyone’s got their opinions, but I felt every single one that I saw they got right, including the penalty that they got.<\/p>\n

“As soon as I saw the replay, my heart was in my mouth.<\/p>\n

“I thought Quansah deserved to go, I thought Kane didn’t get anything on the ball, and I thought Gordon got there first.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opinions were divided as to whether or not Mexico should have had the chance to peg England back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-783718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}