The PRO assignments for MLS games in week 5 of the 2016 season: 04/01/2016 New England Revolution v New York Red Bulls Gillette Stadium (7:00pm ET) REF: MARK GEIGER AR1: Brian Dunn AR2: Logan Brown 4TH: Marcos DeOliveira 04/02/2016 Chicago Fire v Philadelphia Union Toyota Park (5:00pm ET) REF: SILVIU PETRESCU AR1: Phil Briere AR2: Gianni Facchini 4TH: Kevin Terry Jr Colorado Rapids v Toronto FC Dick's Sporting Goods Park (8:00pm ET) REF: ISMAIL ELFATH AR1: Kermit Quisenberry AR2: Kevin Klinger 4TH: Younes Marrakchi Sporting Kansas City v Real Salt Lake Children's Mercy Park (8:30pm ET) REF: TED UNKEL AR1: Claudiu Badea AR2: Anthony Vasoli 4TH: Armando Villarreal FC Dallas v Columbus Crew Toyota Stadium (9:00pm ET) REF: EDVIN JURISEVIC AR1: Frank Anderson AR2: Jeffrey Greeson 4TH: Juan Guzman Vancouver Whitecaps v LA Galaxy BC Place (10:00pm ET) REF: JAIR MARRUFO AR1: Eric Boria AR2: Apolinar Mariscal 4TH: Alex Chilowicz Seattle Sounders v Montreal Impact CenturyLink Field (10:00pm ET) REF: BALDOMERO TOLEDO AR1: Jeff Hosking AR2: James Conlee 4TH: Baboucarr Jallow San Jose Earthquakes v D.C. United Avaya Stadium (10:30pm ET) REF: FOTIS BAZAKOS AR1: Adam Wienckowski AR2: Cameron Blanchard 4TH: Ricardo Salazar 04/03/2016 Orlando City v Portland Timbers Citrus Bowl (8:00pm ET) REF: ALAN KELLY AR1: Eric Weisbrod AR2: Kyle Longville 4TH: Caleb Mendez
Additionally, NASL Week 1: http://www.proreferees.com/2016-nasl-regular-season-assignments---week-1.php USL Week 2: http://www.proreferees.com/2016-usl-regular-season-assignments---week-2.php
Cleats right into Rowe's ankle. Works for me. [But I will admit that I think he's a thug who deserves a red card much more frequently than he gets them]
I'm in the "straight red" camp. That can seriously injure someone. No reason to attempt that tackle. Geiger got it right to me. What I will concern myself with, is the injury leading to the only goal. I see alot of controversy over whether it should've been stopped for the injury or not. There was actually an article about this where one persons opinion was to rest the decision to stop it on the referee. Link: http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/...ive-should-you-play-ball-out-injured-opponent Edit: I realize that the timing was absolutely impeccable that the same day this article was released, the situation happens...
It wasn't over the ball, Felipe played the ball, deflecting the Revs players play on the ball. His foot was in the air to make the block and comes down where the Revs player making the intial touch steps into the path in a bang bang manner.
while I also lean towards orange as well...Mark didn't exactly have a great match...and yeah I also feel that the match should have been stopped prior to the goal.
Had the referee been aware of the seriousness of the injury, play should have and would have been stopped. His opinion based on the evidence he could quickly collect was that the injury was slight, thus the Laws say to continue play. His opinion turned out to be wrong, and that sucks, but everyone on that pitch knows you play on until told otherwise. While one team had a competitive disadvantage, that's true for slight injuries, as well, and we specifically do not stop play for slight injuries so we can't use that as a criterion. The other possible reason to stop play would be if the player was injured in a location where it would be unsafe to play on. I don't think that was the case here, but there's an argument for it. Again, it comes down to the opinion of the referee. So the question at hand is how do we improve referee assessment of the degree of injury (slight vs serious vs severe) and get some consistency amongst the crews?
I agree with that. The problem of course is that if you stop the game for every injury you end up with players gaming the system. There was a case in the first or maybe second week of the season where a player was down in the middle of the penalty area with play continuing all around him where I felt like it was dangerous to everyone and Villareal didn't stop play. In that case the player was down for a long time. I think it will always be a grey area.
Having reffed him in local MBB matches, he frequently displays the same ignorance of how the Laws are actually applied.
Honest question--what about an injured player who is a defender, and is maybe even further back than where this injury was today. By virtue of being down, he is obviously affecting the offside line. But everyone else pulls up and play continues w/o regard to him. The AR stays with the injured defender I assume, but I wonder if at some point the competitive disadvantage b/c of the offside line becomes so great that the ref should stop the game. Does anyone think that should be a factor?
Love to get a neutral's take on Elfath tonight. As a Rapids fan I felt like the game was all over the map. Toronto fans are up in arms over the 3 major decisions in the match. http://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/ma...rado-rapids-vs-toronto-fc/details/video/60986 Card 1 to Cheyrou - No brainer to me and lucky not to be red http://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/ma...rado-rapids-vs-toronto-fc/details/video/60987 Card 2 to Cheyrou - Hint of a thrown elbow, if so then the card is warranted. Especially after Elfath gave him a pretty clear "calm down and don't do it again" talk when he got his first card 2 minutes earlier. If no elbow is actually there though then I'm not sure this is yellow. http://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/ma...rado-rapids-vs-toronto-fc/details/video/60989 Goal - Concerns about offside. It is really, really close. Can't tell accurately with the angle of the replay IMO.
Sure, but I think the teams have been instructed to not do that, and let the referee stop play. Not that teams ever listen to things the league tells them. My question isn't about this exact play, but more along the lines of "in thinking about when the referee should stop play, should the ref factor in something like a serious competitive disadvantage caused by the offside line being frozen"? Not sure if that makes sense what I'm asking.
Re: the second card, it does seem there was a bit of an elbow. Even if, it does seem like something you should avoid after Elfath gave him the talk.
No. Why should Geiger blow the whistle? It's not a compound fracture or a head injury. Let the team's decide.
Not worth worrying about the offside; looks on to me, but that is too close to decide from the camera angle. Card 1: Very, very orange. If he's a few centimetres higher he's off for it. Card 2: The elbow is the issue, and the second replay shows him using the elbow. Whether or not it is "thrown" really only shifts this from being a second yellow to being red; even though the player is using it at this point to balance himself (the commentators are right, he is looking at the ball), he puts others at risk when he jumps "into" the path of the ball like that instead of "up" to the path of the ball. Both decisions correct IMO.