“It’s just a disaster,” Remo Freuler told reporters. “I don’t know what this referee is doing here. I don’t know, I don’t understand why they call it for a situation like this, because there were many fouls, made also in the first half, maybe he has to also to call them for a yellow card. So I don’t understand. How can a VAR change a game with this situation?”

His teammate Granit Xhaka added that the decision was the sort that can “kill the game.”

“I think the red card changed our game,” Xhaka said. “This decision was difficult to accept now after the game because the dressing room was very quiet, disappointed.”

Since Embolo was given his second yellow due to the “mistaken identity” protocol, he actually couldn’t have been booked if Paredes hadn’t been shown a yellow to begin with.

Switzerland manager Murat Yakin said the rule is “absolutely incomprehensible.”

“For a situation where beforehand there should have been yellow cards several times, he gave a yellow card in a situation that, to me, was a harmless foul — or if it was even a foul at all,” Yakin told reporters.

“They protect their referee over a rule that destroyed our game today. That hurts enormously.”

Embolo is the first player to be sent off due to the “mistaken identity” rule at this summer’s World Cup.

He was seen in tears as he left the field — perhaps for the last time at a World Cup — as he will be 33 during the 2030 tournament.

Argentina were minutes away from going to penalties, but goals by Julian Alvarez and Lisandro Martinez got them over the line in extra time.