10/17/20 Chicago Fire vs Sporting Kansas City Soldier Field (3:30PM ET) REF: Dave Gantar AR1: Brian Poeschel AR2: Adam Garner 4TH: Silviu Petrescu VAR: Chico Grajeda AVAR: Eric Boria Montreal Impact vs Inter Miami Red Bull Arena (7PM ET) REF: Tim Ford AR1: Kyle Atkins AR2: Adam Wienckowski 4TH: Luis Arroyo VAR: Edvin Jurisevic AVAR: Kathryn Nesbitt
10/18/20 Columbus Crew vs New York City FC MAPFRE Stadium (6PM ET) REF: Alex Chilowicz AR1: Peter Manikowski AR2: Peter Balciunas 4TH: Guido Gonzales Jr VAR: Sorin Stoica AVAR: Kevin Klinger New York Red Bulls vs Orlando City Red Bull Arena (7PM ET) REF: Drew Fischer AR1: Cory Richardson AR2: Jose Da Silva 4TH: Marcos DeOliveira VAR: Robert Sibiga FC Cincinnati vs D.C. United Nippert Stadium (7:30PM ET) REF: Rosendo Mendoza AR1: Eric Weisbrod AR2: Claudiu Badea 4TH: Matt Thompson VAR: Alan Kelly AVAR: Craig Lowry Toronto FC vs Atlanta United Rentschler Field at Pratt & Whitney Stadium (7:30PM ET) REF: Fotis Bazakos AR1: Corey Parker AR2: Gjovalin Bori 4TH: Nima Saghafi VAR: Jorge Gonzalez Minnesota United vs Houston Dynamo Allianz Field (8PM ET) REF: Elton Garcia AR1: Jeremy Kieso AR2: Benjamin Hall-Volpenhein 4TH: Ian McKay VAR: Chris Penso Portland Timbers vs Los Angeles FC Providence Park (10PM ET) REF: Allen Chapman AR1: Jeff Hosking AR2: Chris Elliott 4TH: Armando Villarreal VAR: Younes Marrakchi AVAR: Joshua Patlak LA Galaxy vs Vancouver Whitecaps Dignity Health Sports Park (10:30PM ET) REF: Victor Rivas AR1: Frank Anderson AR2: Diego Blas 4TH: Joe Dickerson VAR: Alejandro Mariscal AVAR: Fabio Tovar San Jose Earthquakes vs Seattle Sounders Earthqakes Stadium (10:30PM ET) REF: Kevin Stott AR1: Jeremy Hanson AR2: TJ Zablocki 4TH: Michael Radchuk VAR: Daniel Radford AVAR: Mike Kampmeinert
https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...ted-fc-vs-houston-dynamo/details/video/244957 This feels like it should have been reviewed to me, and I would not at all be surprised to see the DisCo act on it. Dotson had to leave the match.
Holy hell. That's a bad miss in real time. That is an absolutely, incredibly, mind-blowingly inexplicably bad miss with VAR available. He leaves the ground with both feet, comes nowhere near the ball, drives his studs into the side of a player calf, and injures the player. That's about as textbook a red card as it gets.
Miami's Gonzalo Higuaín was sent off after the final whistle last night. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...card-following-postgame-confrontation-referee
another interesting review for Chapman in Portland. Higuain really wouldn't stop after the end of the match, but I couldn't figure out what he was so upset about. So I guess eventually he got to the magic words.
I guess the red card is appropriate, but looks pretty silly when you take all that crap from Perez and Higuain after the final whistle and do nothing and then run after Higuain to show the red card. So whatever he said at the beginning of the video wasn't offensive enough?
For anyone watching the full match or at least full sequence... was anything else going on in that time period that would have been checked? Also, how quickly was play restarted when the yellow was eventually shown (I presume not that quickly, given the injury, but I could be wrong)? Just wondering if there was anything related to the lack of AVAR that could have resulted in an inefficient check here. Because, obviously, it's surprising that this didn't prompt a review.
10/19/20 New England Revolution vs Philadelphia Union Gillette Stadium (7:30PM ET) REF: Rubiel Vazquez AR1: Nick Uranga AR2: Matthew Nelson 4TH: Adam Kilpatrick VAR: Jose Carlos Rivero AVAR: Tom Supple
I didn't see more than the highlight, but it was in the tenth minute, and the R gave advantage then a caution. So he's probably telling the VAR "I saw it, I have a caution." Early in the game, the VAR is likely to have a higher threshold for review on a play the R is dogmatic about. Obviously it was a very bad miss, I'm just guessing that the time of game might explain why both the R/VAR missed it. I mean, even if the VAR was checking something else, what with the injury and leaving the game there would be time to check that.
Is there any angle from the side of this play? All the angles shown in MLS’s highlight package are from behind and aren’t super useful. Working from those angles alone, I agree with the yellow card. Yellow is absolutely plenty for that challenge, largely because the opponent actually brings his own head quite low towards Williamson’s arm as he challenges for the ball. I don’t think an OFR was warranted in this case. And on the Minnesota - Houston play: like others here I am very surprised to see no OFR! Straight leg, studs to the calf from behind, it’s an unfortunate miss.
Chapman's review is particularly interesting because it involves contact with the arm to the opponent's head *after* the offending player is fouled (albeit by a matter of a split second), which is likely why the VAR felt obligated to recommend a review.
I think the word "obligated" is doing a lot of work there. I didn't love Chapman's review a few weeks ago. I think he handled this one incredibly well, despite the larger optics and result being similar.
Take it with a grain of salt but Penso (VAR) must have discussed this at a NISOA clinic this week and admitted it was a pretty bad miss on his part.