In fairness to Robben he should have had a penalty earlier in the game and avoided Marquez at 1 nil to stay on his feet and get a shot away. As much as I dislike Robben and his diving he'd have had to change his run to avoid Marquez' foot so for me it's a penalty.
Had Robben taken contact and went down so be it.
But he literally threw himself in a swan dive seconds after contact when he saw another Mexican defender near the ball.
The contact from Marquez was not egregious enough to grant a free kick at that spot when it didn't prevent a shot on goal or anything of the sort.
Robben overdribbled into the deep box and had no where to go but back into a crowd away from goal.
The only intent for him was to draw a foul.
It is a very cheap way to play the game that robs the effort of guys who ran through Hell for 95 mins on both sides. .
I'd like to see red cards for dives that extreme.
Because overreactions is the only way to stop it.
The Dutch were the better side by far in the 2nd half and likely get through in added time anyway but it is a legit reason to dislike soccer when it is so hard to score from run of play but so easy to entice referees to give bail out PKs that are 85% propositions to score.
