"It's unacceptable that they gave us an Argentinian ref after Messi's complaints"

Porto centre-back Pepe was very critical of Facundo Tello's refereeing, and claimed that because of matches such as this one, "Argentina will win". "After what I've seen, they can give them the title now", he said, according to 'Relevo'.

"He didn't see the play which could've given Bruno Fernandes a penatly. We were capable of winning this World Cup. We feel the refereeing team is arrogant. Argentina will win. There were five Argentinian referees... What more can I say. Let's see what happens", he said to 'RTP3'.

"We conceded a goal which we weren't expecting, but I've got to say that this is more important than myself. It's unacceptable that they gave us an Argentinian ref. After what happened on Friday, with Messi complaining", he said to 'SIC'.

"The whole of Argentina talking and the ref comes here to do our match. I'm not saying that I'm against it, what happened in the second half? The keeper threw himself on the ground. There were eight minutes of added time. We worked hard and the ref, eight minutes? Nothing happened in the second half. The only team which played football was us. We're sad. We had the quality to win the World Cup, but we haven't done it".