I think this is a penalty purely because it's England that it's being given against.

Any call against England or Arsenal always gets hilarious reactions on this sub, lmao. Sincerely don't give a fuck about your downvotes, but this is a clear foul and you wouldn't be complaining if it wasn't against England. It's a super unnatural arm movement from him that literally hits the opposing player in the face/eyes region and keeps him from continuing the play, and it was much rougher in real speed than in the slow-mo that is being shown here.

Maguire is getting a boost because the people booing him are the opposition fans this time.

Makeup call of the century

They clearly realised they fucked up on the Maguire call and had to make it up later

Ref fucked the Maguire decision to then give the softest penalty I've ever seen. Feel bad for Rico, not fair at all.

Giving a yellow is the most laughable thing about this decision.

Referees don't even know the rules at this point. It's not dangerous, reckless, or impeding so why is it a foul?

The Macedonian player has bought that by cheating and as always, been rewarded.

Just how? He’s jumped and headed the ball. Not like he’s thrust an elbow, it’s just part of his jumping motion and his hand has flicked a bloke on his blindside. Genuine shocker that they’ve probably only given to compensate for the one they didn’t get earlier.

Wtf was that decision

Don't agree with the penalty but even if it is how the hell is that a yellow

No idea why that was given

Super soft penalty, but then the other one was clear so…

What was the infringement? i still dont know what they're calling the penalty for? That Lewis touched the striker?

thought this was a contact sport

Fucking ridiculous!!

How is this harsh? Lewis heads the ball but the Macedonian player could still go for it if Lewis hadn't hit him in the face. While it was not intentional it doesn't matter

Seeing a lot of folk in this thread who have clearly never played the game. No intent in that whatsoever and to get that high up you need to use your arms like that for momentum. Rubbish call from the ref.

Wtf is rico supposed to do

It’s interesting how the pen shout for Maguire has half the comments here on Reddit, even though they are equally outrageous (bad) decisions.

If you’re going to whinge about reffing, do it consistently…

Poor rico

Controversial decision that but at least pickford saved it. Good dive from him, unlucky with the rebound obviously but I have faith England will step it up a gear next half and win.

Ludicrous decision

And the knee to Maguire's face is not a pen?

Ridiculous

dies from peak fiction

macedonia sucks. England needs better players lmao

Caught him in the face. Yer man made a meal out of it tbh though.

...do people really think this is soft? He literally slaps the guy in the face.

This ref had a nightmare of a match

Yas min Bojan min

It's impressive that var has just given refs more opportunities to be terrible