"It's clearly a foul on Daniel. It's a foul, it isn't given and the goal stands. The yellow card for Daniel is just a joke - when you look at the incident back, it's poor. We feel a bit aggrieved because of that."
"If you watch it back, there's a blatant push in the back of Daniel Ballard and that's where the goal has been scored from. It's sore to lose the game as we did because we feel we've been beaten by a goal that shouldn't have stood. That's what VAR's there to [resolve]. The referee didn't go to check it, so we can't do anything about it. You have to look at each individual incident; it's can't be cumulative."
Slovakia defeated Northern Ireland 1-0 courtesy of a 91st-minute Tomas Bobcek strike. Two Slovakia goals by Lukas Haraslin and David Strelec were disallowed in the second half. Northern Ireland argued there was a clear push on Dan Ballard in the buildup to the winning goal and criticized the second yellow shown to Ballard as unwarranted. Referee Istvan Kovacs did not go to the VAR monitor to review the incident, prompting calls that VAR should have intervened. The result leaves Slovakia positioned for a winner-takes-all decider for automatic World Cup qualification in Germany.
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