Newcastle United forward Chris Wood has insisted his disallowed goal in New Zealand's narrow 1-0 World Cup play-off defeat to Costa Rica was 'extremely harsh'. The All Whites suffered World Cup anguish in Doha, with a third-minute goal from former Arsenal forward Joel Campbell the only difference between the two sides.
Wood was unlucky to have his first-half equaliser disallowed following a seemingly harsh foul in the build-up and was also later denied a penalty after claims he was fouled by Los Ticos goalkeeper Keylor Navas.
New Zealand were also reduced to ten men after Kosta Barbarouses was sent off after a late foul on Francisco Calvo. The decision had originally been given as a yellow card, but after another intervention from VAR, the decision was upgraded from yellow to red.
