There are betting enthusiasts on the bet and the most popular are the penalty shootouts and reds that will be given in a match.
Below we present all of the Brazilian World Cup referees and their statistics on the cards (yellow and red) and the penalties they have whistled in the international races they have led.
Important in the table are the averages per match. We have marked in red those who have a high average in these categories and characterize a referee who is easy on cards and penalties, while we highlight in green those who do not whistle easily and leave the game unpunished.
Ο Bakary Gassama from Gambia is nominated to the most tolerant referee who does not whistle with anything .... It gives less than 3 yellow cards per game, 1 red and 1 penalties per 10 games !!!
On the opposite side, the Wilmar Roldan from Colombia takes the prize of the most "furious" referee. It gives about 5 yellow per game, 1 red per 2 games and 1 pennies per 3 games !!!
| REFEREE | NATIONALITY | INTERNATIONAL TOYS | RED | PENALTI | M.O. per GAME Yellow-Red-Penalty |
| Alioum | Cameroon | 48 | 7 | 13 | 3.13 / 0.15 / 0.27 |
| Daniel Bennett | South Africa | 63 | 11 | 14 | 3.24 / 0.17 / 0.22 |
| Noumandiez Doue | Ivory Coast | 57 | 13 | 13 | 3.84 / 0.23 / 0.23 |
| Bakary Gassama *** | Γκάμπια | 54 | 6 | 7 | 2.78 / 0.11 / 0.13 |
| Djamel Haimoudi | Algeria | 65 | 10 | 15 | 3.35 / 0.15 / 0.23 |
| Alireza Faghani | Iran | 58 | 19 | 22 | 4.62 / 0.33 / 0.38 |
| Ravshan Irmatov | Uzbekistan | 114 | 26 | 14 | 3.46 / 0.23 / 0.12 |
| Yuichi Nishimura | Japan | 91 | 13 | 18 | 3.59 / 0.14 / 0.20 |
| Nawaf Shukralla | Bahrain | 65 | 19 | 11 | 4.38 / 0.29 / 0.17 |
| Benjamin Williams | Australia | 77 | 27 | 18 | 4.16 / 0.35 / 0.23 |
| Felix Brych | Germany | 73 | 17 | 24 | 3.45 / 0.23 / 0.33 |
| Cuneyt Cakir | Turkey | 81 | 17 | 21 | 4.10 / 0.21 / 0.27 |
| Jonas Eriksson | Sweden | 89 | 16 | 16 | 3.16 / 0.18 / 0.18 |
| Bjorn Kuipers | Netherlands | 81 | 17 | 21 | 3.69 / 0.21 / 0.26 |
| Milorad Mazic | Serbia | 61 | 16 | 17 | 4.46 / 0.26 / 0.28 |
| Svein Oddvar Moen | Νορβηγία | 77 | 13 | 13 | 3.37 / 0.17 / 0.17 |
| Pedro Proenca | Portugal | 89 | 14 | 20 | 3.83 / 0.16 / 0.22 |
| Nicola Rizzoli | Italy | 74 | 10 | 24 | 3.93 / 0.14 / 0.32 |
| Carlos Velasco Carballo | Spain | 53 | 5 | 18 | 3.72 / 0.09 / 0.34 |
| Howard Webb | England | 111 | 21 | 23 | 4.05 / 0.19 / 0.21 |
| Joel Aguilar | El Salvador | 89 | 29 | 17 | 4.28 / 0.33 / 0.19 |
| Mark Geiger | USA | 39 | 12 | 10 | 3.79 / 0.31 / 0.26 |
| Walter Lopez | Guatemala | 59 | 22 | 10 | 4.36 / 0.37 / 0.17 |
| Roberto Moreno | Panama | 96 | 20 | 8 | 3.60 / 0.21 / 0.08 |
| Marco Rodriguez | Mexico | 79 | 51 | 29 | 4.43 / 0.65 / 0.37 |
| Norbert Hauta | Tahiti | 45 | 12 | 9 | 2.53 / 0.27 / 0.20 |
| Peter O'Leary | New Zealand | 42 | 8 | 8 | 3.67 / 0.19 / 0.19 |
| Victor Carrillo | Peru | 75 | 32 | 31 | 4.67 / 0.43 / 0.41 |
| Enrique Osses | Chile | 80 | 20 | 19 | 4.66 / 0.25 / 0.24 |
| Nestor Pitana | Argentina | 38 | 9 | 7 | 5.03 / 0.24 / 0.18 |
| Sandro Ricci | Brazil | 38 | 17 | 11 | 4.55 / 0.45 / 0.29 |
| Wilmar Roldan *** | Colombia | 73 | 40 | 27 | 5.22 / 0.55 / 0.37 |
| Carlos Vera | Ecuador | 65 | 24 | 14 | 4.58 / 0.37 / 0.22 |
*** The worst referee
*** The quieter referee
Make your calculations, study the profile of each referee and the groups that whistle - if playing hard, eg, Uruguay, Mexico, Italy etc or if they play quiet groups - play accordingly.
Good luck and good fun.
