Team loses, fans claim biased ref was cause. It's an old story, written by Shakespeare I think. Rough way to lose though, seen quite a few of them.
NO..NO! Canada needs to lift their heads up and come out fighting for the Bronze and hopefully the golden boot goes to Sinclair.
I'm confident that CSA will show it's class, and not do anything to disrespect their opponent or the sport as a certain poster would have them do. Good luck against France.
I'm Portuguese-Canadian and I feel more destroyed after this loss than Portugals against Spain in the Euro's. Sinclair......she did everything today, everything. France is a fantastic team, Canada needs to perform the way they did today, but it's going to be insanely difficult to regroup and gather up that emotion again... So many good performances today that are going to be so difficult to repeat.
Yeah, the call was definitely for timewasting. She had held the ball for over 10 seconds twice in the preceding minutes (when my team is losing, I keep track of these things), so I'm guessing the referee warned her not to do it again. Really bad luck for Canada, but I could see that call going either way. Her arm was definitely more extended than Rapinoe's was earlier on the call Canada wanted. I don't think anything the ref did on either call was technically wrong. Hard to watch those 2 calls back to back for Canadian fans, but they were both legitimate calls IMO. Fantastic game all-around. Some iffy reffing here and there, but to pretend (as a few posters are) that it all favored the US is ingenuous.
that little sequence at the end, which gave them the 3:3 tie was not in the spirit of the olympics, was in the spirit of highway robberies. not one but two shots to get them in the game. every bookie in london would take the usa and another 30 min with their depth against canada. i'd be more proud of them if they didn't show up for the game. their coach is so right.
All in all, I'd say the defensive quality of the women's game has decreased some. Sure, the games are close and entertaining, but defensively I've seen less tactical acumen in these games and the last WC. When Germany, Norway, Sweden, China and the USA were the top teams, defending seemed a lot more coordinated than what I've seen of late. Attacking and passing in midfield has improved greatly, though.
Again...that little sequence with 10 minutes to go. Shouldn;t have been time wasting. Plus another 30....they had ample time to do something about it. This spirit of the olympics thing is crap..there are so many paid off judges fixing boxing matches, screwing fencers out of medals with video proof. It's sport, it happens. There were two penaly no calls against Morgan in the last 45...sooo......yeah, get over it. Highway robbery it wasn;t
I have seen refs gave verbal warnings first for goalkeeping time wasting. Then, it's a yellow card. But an indirect free kick - that's an outlier call. I would also say it was more ball to hand than hand to ball. More often not called but not an outlier call. I said to myself in the first half that this Norwegian ref made me nervous because she came across as a ref who didn't realize she was making wrong decisions. I think she blew about 4 corner kicks vs goal kicks for both teams combined. Foul calls were inconsistent. Only good thing for her was that there was only one offside call made.
I don;t think its wrong to say women referees...well, there is a reason they...lets just say it's... Yeah.
2 calls back-back that you never see in the same run of play, and the first one is a complete travesty. either way, the combo produced a goal for the usa.
Same. I am gutted for watching only the last 40 minutes of Canada's loss (and I am not Canadian!). After playing 120 minutes at a level beyond anyone's expectations, they still had attacking ambitions beyond what their legs could bear, when instead they should have focussed on the shoot-out. Very sad for Sinclair and Tancredi and yes the reffing on PK calls was dubious.
on thursday Canada and France should hold hands around the circle and cry, then proceed to rebound with a wonderful bronze (gold) medal match.
Law twelve (page 35 of the document) http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/generic/81/42/36/lawsofthegame_2011_12_en.pdf Also it appears she was warned at half time: https://twitter.com/GrantWahl/status/232601453355728898
The six second rule is not about when the keeper gathers the ball. The count does not begin until she can be reasonabley deemed to be able to put the ball in play. The absolute earliest that could be considered to be the case here is 76:41. Any reasonable official would permit at least a couple of seconds beyond hauling oneself off the turf before starting the count. Even then officials are instructed to exercise discretion and only call actual time wasting, not just count to six and blow the whistle. McLeod did not lie around on the turf waiting for the area to clear. She got to her feet quickly and made her way to the edge of the area where she promptly put the ball into play. It was an idiotic call be a ref who didn't belong on the pitch.
Look, you can try to defend the refereeing, but it was very one sided, either way you look at it. Let me point out the differences. -Canada picked up 2 yellows to the Americans 0, whether you agree with this or not, the fact remains, abby probably could of easily gotten a yellow, for her rough play in the box. Multiple times she was going over top the defender and her body checks to players like the one on Shmidt is an example. -The hard tackle on Desiree Scott should of been carded, it was directed at her leg not at the ball. Scott is probably injured because of that, she played on, but who knows she may not be available for the France game and that would be a HUGE blow to Canada -The US did NOT get penalized for the handball in their box, the Canadians had 2 calls go against them, one in the US side and another on their side which resulted in a goal. -I counted 2 corners that should of gone Canada's way, but didn't, the one glaring example is Sydney Leroux's attempt to keep the ball in and failing and having the ball clearly go out. Again US got a corner out of that. -And lastly, and the worst part. The indirect freekick, I have NEVER seen a free kick given out for time wasting, at most its a yellow, and especially in a semi final game where you want the play of the players to determine the game and not the refereeing, that foul was the most weakest of the weak ones to call. A free kick inside the box in a deciding game for the gold medal match. That is completely ludicurous. So are you going to keep trying to say the bad calls were going both ways? Please most of us here are going to tell you are a homer, and really that is fine, your free to be one, but don't try to presuade us that the United States did not benifit from this, because they did, this game was a debacle for refereeing. For me I wanted the BEST team to make it to the gold medal game, this game was turning out to be one of the matches of the decade. Yet this robbery put a huge tarnish to it. In the end the United States and Japan game should be a good game to watch, but I'm not a blind idiot, Canada SHOULD be in the gold medal game. They were the better side.
If the ref hadn't been inconsistent to down right negligent in her calls/no calls on crunching tackles much earlier in the game, then we're never in a place where the other call happens. Much like in the USA-NZ game, the attention getting talking point seems to be the Morgan/Binden collision and not the 2 pks the ref should have called (one each team).