The exciting match between the Netherlands and Argentina, Friday, in the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, witnessed a record for the number of colored papers in one match of the tournament so far, after Spanish referee Antonio Mateo Lahoz issued 16 yellow cards, along with a red card for Denzel Dumfries player. The Dutch national team after blowing the final whistle, after being warned in the first stage at the start of the penalty shootout.

And the official report of the match issued by the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) stated that the Spanish referee warned 8 players from the Dutch national team, including Dumfries, who received a second warning equal to the expulsion, after the end of the penalty shootout, with the loss of the Netherlands (4-2), while the scorer of the match received two goals for the Netherlands. Vykhorst was shown a yellow card off the bench several minutes earlier.

And 8 players from the Argentine national team received yellow cards, as well as its coach Lionel Scaloni and his assistant Walter Samuel.

The exciting match in which the Netherlands national team succeeded in forcing Argentina to pass the penalty shootout, after returning from afar (2-2), witnessed a lot of tension and protests on many occasions when Argentina advanced 2-0, before Vikhorst scored two goals to equalize the Dutch team in the minute. 11 from the counted time instead of lost, and resort to two additional halves and then to penalty kicks.

The referee, Lahoz, sparked a lot of controversy and criticism, especially from Argentine players.

Messi hinted at the need for FIFA to appoint senior referees for big matches, while Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez described the Spanish referee as "useless."

The Netherlands-Argentina match is the second most violent and quarrelsome match between the players and the second in the use of disciplinary punishment papers by the referee, in addition to the fact that it also witnessed quarrels and clashes between the coach of the mills team, Louis van Gaal, and the captain of the tango team, Lionel Messi.

The record for the most violent and rough matches was 16 yellow cards, in addition to 4 red cards after the second warning, and this happened in the match between the Netherlands and Portugal in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, which was known as the "Battle of Nuremberg".

In that match, which was hosted by the Nuremberg stadium and was held for the 2006 World Cup final price, the Russian referee, Valentin Ivanov, received 16 yellow cards, 9 of which were for the Portuguese and 7 for the Dutch, and players from each team were expelled after receiving the second yellow card.

The spark of roughness erupted at that time, after a strong intervention by defender Khaled Boulahrouz on Cristiano Ronaldo, who left the stadium immediately after that, to successive red and yellow cards, as Ivanov famously 16 yellow cards and 4 red;

2 of them are for the Dutch, Khaled Boulahrouz and Giovanni van Prochourst, and the same for the Portuguese, Costinha and Deco.

The match, which was hosted by the Frank Stadion in Nuremberg, ended with the victory of the Portugal national team, 0-0, scored by Nuno Manic.