I honestly don't know if there was a free kick or not.. the damn Studio didn't show any replays and I didn't aw the original situation ( So someone may enlight me )
Let's not forget that Japan was playing aggressive so this may have had influence referee decision if this was a close situation to foul and it was free kick no red card/ no penalty / no goal from outside etc.
So I wouldn't go that far to call referee bad because he gave one free kick while Japanese was playing on board of the foul most of the time.
As for shot from a free kick, it's