Ref Fact: That was Marrufo's first 2nd yellow card since 2016 and only his second since 2012. Or in other words, he's had 2 of the 171 2nd cautions in MLS since 2012.
Since everyone is super interested.. After exchanging the lead multiple times and two missed penalties in a row, the Seawolves have gotten two tries in a row and are now up by 13.
Well, they lost their coach, their best player who was also the thing that made them go, and lost Garza and Shea on the backline. Oh, and they changed the unis. Never change the unis after a title win.
Exactly. What Rossi did is 1000x worse than Chara's stupid play in the eyes of the huge swath of sports fans in the US that MLS still needs to start converting.
Aside from the fact that I thought it should be a straight red, what's the appropriate punishment for Rossi's act of simulation/exaggeration? The DisCo will suspend if a player suckers a ref into a red or penalty, but this is a sending off regardless IMO. Is a fine enough?
Rossi didn't commit a red card offense unless he was already on a yellow. There's absolutely no justification for a straight red in Law 12.
USA Today already ran an article about the finger flick including a gif of Rossi throwing himself on the ground like an idiot.
I'd say: fine Rossi for making the league, nay, the entire SPORT look ridiculous. However, what else is he supposed to do? If he doesn't fall, then Chara keeps picking away at him with no repercussion. But what do you do to guys like Beckerman and Chara? They've made a career of being red card edge-lords. I don't know how to solve this other than continually giving them red cards. They do it to win, so after-the-fact fines aren't really going to outweigh 3 points in their minds. (I do know that it was already 4-1 in the 72' in this case, but even more reason to punish the ********tard for lashing out in anger and humiliation.)
I wasn't overly impressed with the product on the field. Kobayashi and Daniel Johnson looked good at times, Avila was decent. What's the analysis on Mikey Lopez? Other than him tackling people all over the field (sometimes very wildly), he didn't look that great. Anyone here whose seen him play more than me can tell me what to expect out of my club captain?
The talent is there, they're just going to need time to gel...not sure why Mikey was given the armband, he never seemed like anything special the few times I saw him playing for NYCFC. My guess would have been van Oekel for captain, but for some reason he wasn't playing. Injury perhaps? To be honest, even with the amount of MLS flameouts on the team they are still pretty young with the only "veteran" type presence being Kobayashi and Avila, but neither of them strike me as the captain type.
I agree. Had some good moments along with some head scratchers. But I think they could end up being a decent little side. Didn't seem fully comfortable yet. As to be expected. Nice to see someone else from Bham here!
Law 12 can perform physiologically impossible sexual acts on itself if that garbage isn't enough to be booted from the game.
I don't write the Laws. I'd say contact the IFAB, but they're apparently in the business of ********ing up a good thing instead of fixing what's actually important.