Copa America 2016 final: Argentina v/s Chile - Twitter reacts to referee Heber Lopes' two red cards

The entire first half has been dominated by Brazilian referee Heber Lopes who has a way with cards. In the first half he sent off Marcelo Diaz after he handed out two yellows, the second of which was rather harsh in which the Chilean appeared to collide with Messi. Then when Lionel Messi went down in the area after a little wind blew in his direction (Ronaldo and Messi do inspire each other), the referee gave him a yellow card. And then Lopes evened it out by handing Rojo a red card after the Argentina defender appeared to challenge Vidal from behind, which by all stretches of imagination was only  a yellow.

So at the end of the second half, we’ve both teams are down to 10 men and the match is about the referee. Twitter exploded as they hit out at the referee’s high-handedness and trigger-happy nature.