Another insane UCL game - Real Madrid avoids insane Juve comeback

This common meme that refs should or shouldn’t make calls based on the situation in the game is nonsense — make the right call ALL the time, regardless of the game situation. People complain about refs deciding games too often but not calling a blatant foul (which this was, IMO) because it’s stoppage time is just the other side of bad coin. To wit, US National Side at Azteca during WCQ, not one but TWO blatant violent elbows go unpunished within the opening minutes of the match. Both deserving of red cards, but I cannot help believing that the ref didn’t make either call because he couldn’t imagine ejecting a Mexican player, in Aztecs, during the Hex, in the 3rd minute of the game. Further, I have to believe the offending player believed this as well and was emboldened by a lower likelihood of getting a (deserved) red card. If there’s an obvious call, make it, regardless of the consequences — that’s what the rules are for and why the refs are there to enforce them. Michigan has been on the short end of many of those sticks (NC v Louisville, ‘16 OSU game), to say the ‘89 NC shouldn’t a foul is insane. It’s called over and over because, and shouldn’t be “let go” because it’s late in an NC game.