On that note, the Higuita red is interesting, too. The overall consensus outside of Orlando is that it's a clear red card, although some have noted that they can't tell if Higuita actually made contact. Flash back to a similar incident in Kansas City when the violent conduct by Martinez was missed and erroneously left unreviewed. PRO gave a public explanation that the VAR had missed the forest for the trees by focusing on trying to find a solid point of contact instead of recognizing the obvious violent nature of the offense. The same VAR was on DC-ORL last night.
So Ruidiaz gets a free pass. Yes they fvcked up with not red carding Martinez during that game and for the DisCo fvckingup for not correcting the bad call. I'm OK with Ziegler getting red carded, but like I said non of that would have happened if Ruidiaz didn't start it. Until these morans (refs and DisCo) get it right this kind of shit is going to happen more often.
The DisCo certainly set a bad precedent with their decision on Martinez. A precedent Ruidiaz and the Sounders are definitely aware of.. Hopefully it’s a precedent they undo in a future review after this week’s meeting.
It changes everything. It means two players should have got red carded instead of just one. That is a pretty massive change.
To link this back to MLS, a C38 member designed and is running the lighting setup for Weezer's summer tour. Never for Rapids games unless I'm around. Incidentally, anyone know why the hell this game is being played on Tuesday and not Wednesday? It was rescheduled from June(?) so the Galaxy could play a friendly but I don't know why it was scheduled for tomorrow and not mid-week like every other mid-week league game. I suspect the Rapids rolled over for LA, again.
I'd guess it is to get an extra day to get ready for the Chargers game at StubHub on Saturday. Hmm. Maybe not. The Chargers also have a home game on Saturday, August 25,and the Galaxy play at home on the Friday night before that.
Not when he’s responding to a post where I start off by agreeing with the post I quoted that Ruidiaz is a slimey f**k for headbutting Ziegler... Given the context of the entire quote thread and not airdropping in on a single post, his post comes off as “but he started it!”
Great work by Rooney, made doubly good because Will Johnson was the clown on the other end of that play.
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Aaaaaaand yet its still true. He absolutely would have outrun those defenders and scored on the earlier play.
Beau, that was PRECISELY the argument that I made in the DC United forum! The comment didn't go over very well with one of my fellow DC United fans.
That trip from Acosta prevented that player from becoming an outlet for Will Johnson sooner. I think it did impact Johnson's decision making. If the player wasn't tripped Johnson very likely makes that pass a lot earlier before he gets closed down. I wish it was reviewable. But it was great drama and enjoyable.
The plays in the run-up to a goal are reviewable tho. In that particular sequence, I would have expected Acosta's trip to be reviewable as it allowed Rooney to make his tackle.
Goals are reviewable back to the start of the attack. The trip happened before Rooney made his tackle, so before the attack started. Thus not reviewable. (If it were a red card foul it would have been reviewable on its own, but this would be a yellow card at worst)
One the referee didn't see the foul, if he had, it would have been an advantage call since Will Johnson was streaking out on a 3 on 1 with NO KEEPER in net. If the advantage wasn't called Orlando (or any other team's fans/players in that situation) would have been pissed.
It's also worth noting that the fouled player got back up and continued running pretty much immediately. It slowed him down, yes, but he was still a potential outlet for a pass from Johnson.