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       ARMENIA - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Goga Kikacheishvili
   DIR By: DublinRef
       Date: September 9, 2025, 1:09 pm
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       Congratulations to Armenia on a fantastic result, their
       passionate and animated manager and fans must be overjoyed.
       Tough, hardworking and more quality than expected. Everything
       Ireland were not. 2-1 flattered Ireland, I don’t know if we have
       any Armenian members here - if so, enjoy your evening!
       Now onto the referee. I saw a lot I liked. First though the
       negative - I felt he missed 4/5 very blatant fouls. Maybe 1/2
       YCs. That sounds bad, but it was a physical match, and they were
       very isolated incidents, rather than systematic errors. He also,
       when he wanting to speak to the captains, tapped his arm where
       the captains armband would be. I recommend he stops this, as it
       looks like he is considering a handball.
       Now the positives, the penalty was called correctly IMO. Seemed
       to be AR2 that called it. VAR disallowed Armenia’s third goal,
       no fault on the AR, it was razor tight and he made other good
       calls in the game. I really liked the referees communication.
       His acceptance from the players was really very good. Great body
       language and a lovely smile in tense moments - but equally able
       to be stern. Great image presented I felt.
       I read on Law5 this referee is being looked at for bigger
       appointments, based on this showing, I feel he has a lot of
       potential.
       As for Ireland - I think it will be only the referees I have to
       support at WC2026!!
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