Uruguai vs Espanha

Deep in stoppage time of Uruguay vs Spain, a Uruguay player went down in the box under a challenge from Spain's Dani Olmo and claimed a penalty. The referee waved play on and VAR did not intervene. The decision is correct. Olmo did initiate some contact, but the contact was minimal and not enough to legitimately bring the attacker down — who fell very easily, looking to win the penalty. A penalty requires contact that is both a foul and the actual cause of the fall; minimal contact followed by an exaggerated tumble is embellishment, not a foul. Because genuine (if slight) contact existed, waving play on is the correct middle ground — neither a soft penalty nor a harsh simulation booking. VAR correctly stayed out: minimal contact with an easy fall is not the clear-and-obvious foul required to overturn a wave-on. CORRECT NO-CALL, MEDIUM confidence — a defensible call on a genuine 50/50, consistent with the high contact threshold applied across this tournament.