11/20/20 New England Revolution vs Montreal Impact Gillette Stadium (6:30PM ET) REF: Jair Marrufo AR1: Corey Rockwell AR2: Jose Da Silva 4TH: Rubiel Vazquez VAR: Alan Kelly AVAR: Tom Supple Nashville vs Inter Miami Nissan Stadium (9PM ET) REF: Ismail Elfath AR1: Corey Parker AR2: Kyle Atkins 4TH: Dave Gantar VAR: Daniel Radford AVAR: Fabio Tovar
I think my favourite was when a Nashville player was maybe 5-8m in an offside position... the Miami player cut out the pass and it went toward the sideline and as the ball was going out of play, one of the other Nashville players was fouled. "That foul should never have been given, that play has to be called offside! What does this referee think he's doing? He's made three calls that have drastically changed the game now!"
11/21/20 Orlando City vs New York City FC Exploria Stadium (12PM ET) REF: Allen Chapman AR1: Logan Brown AR2: Nick Uranga 4TH: Marcos DeOliveira VAR: Guido Gonzales Jr AVAR: Jozef Batko Columbus Crew vs New York Red Bulls MAPFRE Stadium (3PM ET) REF: Alex Chilowicz AR1: Brian Poeschel AR2: Eric Weisbrod 4TH: Fotis Bazakos VAR: Edvin Jurisevic AVAR: Gjovalin Bori
This? https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...lle-sc-vs-inter-miami-cf/details/video/249516 The slo-mo sequence at 0:31-0:36 on the video shows the contact pretty clearly. The goalkeeper's hits the outside of the attacker's right leg, about halfway between knee and ankle. That's a foul. If you want to say the attacker goes down easy... well, maybe. But he's also beaten two defenders to win the ball and put it past the goalkeeper who comes nowhere close to it and makes contact. That has to be a penalty.
seemed like he was already falling before contact. I'm more interested in this brutal foul in the NYC v ORL game. Defender leaves his feet and launches his shoulder into the head of his opponent eyes clearly on his target nowhere near playing the ball. Excessive force for sure. https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...y-sc-vs-new-york-city-fc/details/video/249590 finally gets his send off 5 minutes later - not a very bright player https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...y-sc-vs-new-york-city-fc/details/video/249594
I DON'T think it has to be a penalty. That's 10% foul, 90% dive. I also seriously question whether or not he was going to be able to retrieve the ball. Which, while technically isn't relevant, we all know that matters. I do agree that once the CR calls it that way, VAR shouldn't overturn.
I’m shocked by the issues with this call. The goalkeeper takes a risk, doesn’t get the ball at all, and challenges an opponent who has gone round him, making contact. That’s always a penalty if seen correctly. If the attacker threw himself to the ground or truly was going down well prior to contact, I’d get it. But we are talking milliseconds. If there’s embellishment it’s run-of-the-mill. I strongly disagree with the 90-10 dive formulation and quite frankly would reverse that assessment. But if people see it the other way, I don’t think me repeating myself will change minds.
VAR just killing the game. Goal keepers can't even celebrate a save on a penalty kick anymore. Orlando keeper getting his second caution on a pk save due to VAR. Can't wait when this happens at a World Cup or Euros.
While I agree generally on the VAR aspect, I will never understand why this still needs to be a caution. The penalty gets restored. The delay is minor compared to VAR checks and reviews themselves. This still needs to be misconduct at a time when the laws say to no longer caution SPA (deliberate misconduct) if advantage is applied and realized? It makes no sense. So while VAR doesn’t help, I think the Laws themselves are the fundamental problem here.
No. Reduce only applies at the beginning of the kicks phase. But the rest of this is a disaster. EDIT I was wrong. See below.
Oh, he did. Definitely heard it. But the thing about the Gallese encroachment is that I don't think that was a VAR call. Chapman never went to the monitor that I've seen. Looks like the call was made on the field, and he waited for the VAR to complete the check before showing the requisite yellow card (and then red for the second caution). And of course, next season it A) wouldn't have been a yellow card on the first offense and B) wouldn't have accumulated with the caution from the 120 minutes.
Firstly, a "disclaimer" to start with - I haven't seen this yet. However, .... are we saying a keeper has been cautioned for moving early and saving a PK shoot-out, and since it's his second caution, he was sent off? If that is the case, I have to ask a silly question, which I HONESTLY don't know - did MLS not implement this year's Law Changes yet? Because, as of this season (2020-2021), cautions during the game are "erased" before the shoot-out, so the goalkeeper would not be "on a yellow" to start with. Then, as per the new Law Changes, the first time he "goes early" and saves a kick, he is ONLY warned, and NOT CAUTIONED. Only subsequent transgressions would be subject to caution. Apologies if MLS has not implemented these Law Changes this year - I thought they had - but if they haven't then at least MassRef you can be assured that the CURRENT Laws don't "force" a caution for this as you feared above.