There was clear foot to foot contact. The reaction was entirely embellished, but the contact was there. I personally hate pks like this, but as I wrote on the weekly thread, it is contact that every ref gives if they see it.
Clearly a dive. There may have been some contact on the foot, a brush, but not enough to knock him down. He took a step and a half after the contact before throwing his arms backwards and flopping to the ground. If that is a pk any time a defender would put a hand on an attacker’s shoulder he could throw himself to the ground and get a call.
The ESPN Spanish announcers sounded surprised at the SG's doing the "Vamos United" song Like, "why are these Gringos singing in Spanish?"
Minor contact to the leg is simply treated differently than minor contact to the torso area. None of us may like it, but it is a fact of soccer life.
Can somebody remind me the last time we beat those m@therf@ckers either at home or away? My memory starts fading. I can only recall humiliations in recent times.
Argh.. just time to start building for next year.... Drop Rooney’s salary, Acoata’s Salary, and steibers (if possible)... build around Arriola and Kamara... see if we can resign Hamid... look to sell Durkin unless there is a plan to use him and Canouse in an empty bucket. Look to bring in a big name central midfielder; look for an up and coming midfielder; look for a CB and RB upgrade.
Well that sucked. It was very frustrating. Their PK was very soft and against the run of play. Hard to complain since their ejection was very soft. Positive is that we were the better team once it was 10v10. Lucho did look better with more space to operate. Maybe he should have come in sooner. Looks like Kamara can still score in MLS. Beautiful goal. Unfortunately, the bottom line is zero points again and playoff chances are slipping away.
On the Titi penalty, there's some contact there, but I am not sure how it's a penalty. The refs had a nightmare there, he has to look at the VAR footage himself #DCvRBNY #DCUnited #NYRB #MLS #Referee #Elfath pic.twitter.com/mAE3wDgTAx— TimForAlI 🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@timmyvoe) August 22, 2019
NY had our three back set figured out from the opening whistle. Ben got completely out coached. Again and again (before we were a man down), on offense a NY guy with 10 yards of open space around him would pass to a guy ont the wing just as open. Nobody was being marked. The injury faking was outrageous, Anyone notice that the guy Wayne hit stopped writhing, sat up and started watching the ref as soon as soon as he started walking over for the VAR? Eight minutes of stoppage time with no NY player having left the game due to injury says it all. And #33 faking head injuries was the worst. Maybe we need a safety rule - fall on the ground and grab your head and you have to leave the match for five minutes for a concussion check.. That would separate the real injuries from the fakes.
Just home and here’s all I’m going to say about the game: The refs may be terrible... Our owners may be cheap bastards... We may often play some really ugly football... But I’m grateful my team has never made me embarrassed to watch them due to time wasting shenanigans. That was shameful.