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Rio kicked Joe Cole in the head from a similar situation in Moscow and nothing was given.
They happen all the time - I can kind of see how you could make a case for it being a red with the letter of the law, but certainly not with the spirit of such a big game.
The "harsh Euro red".
There are very less decisions that are not justifiable with some technicality or the other.
A referee can give like 20 penalties many games for pushing and shoving in the box. The van Persie red card against barca was technically justifiable.
The referee could send off Lopez and Arbeloa in the same match against madrid and technically justify it . But then you know a wrong decision is wrong based on set patterns of implementation.