@Walter Ichikawa-Doyle I am not so sure that it is "just an error" :)
Remember that this is Brazil and they play in Brazil.
I don't know if you know that same referee did mistake and gave red card to Brazilian Felipe Melo at quarterfinal match 4 years ago on World Cup in South Africa. Brazil lost that game and this look like payback time.
Also that same referee did huge mistake an World Club Cup. Players of damaged team was so furious that they burned down one Chinese restaurant (they thought that he is Chinese referee) :)
And penalty for Brazil is not the only thing that he did wrong.
On both of Brazilian goals there was foul on Croatian players in action before goal.
The penalty was not correctly taken because Neymar stopped before shot and that is not allowed. Also he disallowed Croatian goal after foul that is at least questionable. And at the beginning of game Neymar hit Modric with fist in the head, and that is for red card by the book.
I know that I sound like whining granny but all this things that I wrote is not from Croatian newspapers. Soccer experts from England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France etc. wrote those things.
I better not quote anything from Croatian newspapers :)