The assignments for Week 20 of the 2018 Major League Soccer season: 07/11/2018 New York City v Montreal Impact Yankee Stadium (7PM ET) REF: Alan Kelly AR1: Brian Dunn AR2: Logan Brown 4TH: JC Rivero VAR: Robert Sibiga Chicago Fire v Philadelphia Union Toyota Park (8:30PM ET) REF: Dave Gantar AR1: Jeff Hosking AR2: Chris Wattam 4TH: Fotis Bazakos VAR: Silviu Petrescu 07/14/2018 New York City v Columbus Crew Yankee Stadium (7PM ET) REF: Armando Villarreal AR1: Richard Gamache AR2: Jeffrey Greeson 4TH: Nima Saghafi VAR: Jorge Gonzalez New York Red Bulls v Sporting Kansas City Red Bull Arena (7PM ET) REF: Kevin Stott AR1: Brian Poeschel AR2: TJ Zablocki 4TH: Victor Rivas VAR: Matt Franz Montreal Impact v San Jose Earthquakes Stade Saputo (7:30PM ET) REF: Joseph Dickerson AR1: Peter Manikowski AR2: Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho 4TH: Sorin Stoica VAR: Kevin Terry Jr. New England Revolution v LA Galaxy Gillette Stadium (7:30PM ET) REF: Robert Sibiga AR1: Eric Weisbrod AR2: Kevin Klinger 4TH: Rubiel Vazquez VAR: Tim Ford D.C. United v Vancouver Whitecaps Audi Field (8PM ET) REF: Chico Grajeda AR1: Adam Wienckowski AR2: Kathryn Nesbitt 4TH: Jc Rivero VAR: Younes Marrakchi FC Dallas v Chicago Fire Toyota Stadium (8PM ET) REF: Marcos Deoliveira AR1: Cameron Blanchard AR2: Danny Thornberry 4TH: Alejandro Mariscal VAR: Ismail Elfath Minnesota United v Real Salt Lake TCF Bank Stadium (8PM ET) REF: Alan Kelly AR1: Matthew Nelson AR2: Andrew Bigelow 4TH: Fotis Bazakos VAR: Katja Koroleva Orlando City v Toronto FC Orlando City Stadium (8PM ET) REF: Allen Chapman AR1: Michael Kampmeinert AR2: Cj Morgante 4TH: Luis Guardia VAR: Caleb Mendez Colorado Rapids v Houston Dynamo Dick’s Sporting Goods Park (9PM ET) REF: Ted Unkel AR1: Kyle Atkins AR2: Jose Da Silva 4TH: Daniel Radford VAR: Edvin Jurisevic 07/15/2018 Atlanta United v Seattle Sounders Mercedes-Benz Stadium (2PM ET) REF: Baldomero Toledo AR1: Corey Parker AR2: Nick Uranga 4TH: Kevin Broadley VAR: Alex Chilowicz Los Angeles FC v Portland Timbers Banc of California Stadium (6PM ET) REF: Silviu Petrescu AR1: Jason White AR2: Ian Anderson 4TH: Drew Fischer VAR: Dave Gantar
That's a tough one. I'm pretty confident that it would be a goal in the World Cup. I'm leaning towards not clearly a foul, but I can see disagreement. https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...ted-fc-vs-real-salt-lake/details/video/162574
I think it's probably a foul more often than not, but Glad just hurls himself backwards. The force of the push didn't match the reaction IMO. Tough one for the VAR.
To me it looks like the arm is already extended and then the defender sells it expecting to get the call. The arm extension doesn't match up with the defender falling down. That's probably something the VAR noticed.
It's honestly the sort of play where I'm really reluctant to reward the defender with a free kick unless I'm certain there was a careless push. The fully extended arm is probably the strongest evidence of that. The fact that the defender's reaction doesn't match the arm movement is the strongest evidence that it WASN'T careless. Put it together, and I don't see a clear and obvious error, even though I'd have probably called a foul myself.
There’s not a chance in hell that would be called back at the WC. If the incidents in Spain-Portugal and Brazil-Switzerland weren’t enough for APP fouls, then almost nothing is (though there was a good chance we would have seen our first such review yesterday if Belgium scored on its counter). Regardless, the WC has not been the MLS standard. With the MLS standard, as it has evolved, this doesn’t come close to clearly wrong for me. Debatable, but not clearly wrong. Check complete.
I'm curious as to if leagues will adapt and go closer to the bar of involvement (which is practically none) that we saw at this World Cup. Will leagues watch what they saw at this World Cup and say "that is how we want to use VAR." That will be the fascinating development of VAR as more leagues and competitions adopt it. Obviously there will be differences between leagues, but will it be so drastic?
I don’t think leagues are going to go as far as the WC re SFP and VC being off the table. I think leagues see those as more importNt to control heavily over the course of a long season than the WC does over the course of a single tournament.
Two arms to the head. One got a yellow the other nothing, just a foul(neither appeared deliberate I am fine with neither being red). A football tackle in the box that went uncalled. Not sure if both were wrestling or what. A missed head butt by a player who later scored a goal.
I watched some games, didn't pay that close attention to be honest. This play might be under review. pic.twitter.com/0fLeExeY6f— Sounder At Heart (@sounderatheart) July 15, 2018 Result=yellow It's a foul but ... it's not to face. pic.twitter.com/dg1YkA4Kmb— Sounder At Heart (@sounderatheart) July 15, 2018 result=foul, no card 1018574406820376576 is not a valid tweet id result=VAR issued PK Frei saves Bruin from an own goal. pic.twitter.com/mYITeZ4wk3— Sounder At Heart (@sounderatheart) July 15, 2018 result=nothing called Video quality is so bad to see what happened on this one. Kim basically tackles an Atlanta player, ball hits off Bruin nearly for an own goal. good view at the end of this highlight https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...c-vs-seattle-sounders-fc/details/video/162875 That’s a red card, last time I checked. pic.twitter.com/KXEYg3x4H7— ☂️@CocktailMD🥑 (@CocktailMD) July 15, 2018 Result=nothing called. Only other noteworthy thing I can think of is that McCrary was sent off for having earned two yellows. Both yellows were good calls and pretty easy to make.
https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...c-vs-seattle-sounders-fc/details/video/162910 The choke hold on McCann not getting an OFR was insane. VAR literally must've gone to sleep. Of course they don't show all the misconduct. Mass confrontation that could have seen VC for multiple players. Hopefully controversial plays of the week gives us some.
I had heard rumblings about this one, just saw it. also, speaking of missed stuff... pic.twitter.com/Q1pWtBymmA— Colin ⭐ ⭐ 👑 (@gamecoug) July 15, 2018 No Penalty on that one.
In lighter news... @MLSRefStats - I thought this might interest you. It's from a '97 issue of MLS Freekick pic.twitter.com/GrJ7So8heS— Galaxy History (@GalaxyHistory) July 16, 2018
In my opinion, this was the worst VAR miss so far in MLS. No excuse, because even if they didn’t get the right replay before the restart, it’s still VC. So there’s not even a technical justification for failing to punish this.
Maybe Webb saw the non use of VAR in the World Cup and liked what he saw. I kid of course. But a month of World Cup soccer has left me totally desensitized of what happened in Atlanta. I think it's safe to say that VAR in the World Cup only gets involved in handling offenses if that were a World Cup match.
I think the headbutt might be the standard that would have triggered intervention. I know Geiger’s didn’t. But this one was much more blatant, premeditated, forceful and away from any action. Now, if it didn’t trigger WC intervention, we’d have proof that they were basically told to ignore VC.
Not good to quoute the whole article. Everyone go follow the link and let them get those clicks for actually covering this.
That's confirmation of one of the four incidents I felt were missed reviews. Doubt we'll get anything else confirmed publicly.