09/14/21 Columbus Crew vs New York Red Bulls Lower.com Field (7:30PM ET) REF: Jair Marrufo AR1: Peter Balciunas AR2: Jeffrey Greeson 4TH: Fotis Bazakos VAR: Carol Anne Chenard AVAR: Craig Lowry New York City FC vs FC Dallas Red Bull Arena (7:30PM ET) REF: Joe Dickerson AR1: Claudiu Badea AR2: Gjovalin Bori 4TH: Ismail Elfath VAR: Jorge Gonzalez AVAR: Jose Da Silva Toronto FC vs Inter Miami CF BMO Field (7:30PM ET) REF: Ramy Touchan AR1: Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho AR2: Gianni Facchini 4TH: Silviu Petrescu VAR: Geoff Gamble AVAR: Robert Schaap
09/15/21 Atlanta United vs FC Cincinnati Mercedes-Benz Stadium (7PM ET) REF: Drew Fischer AR1: Matthew Nelson AR2: Ryan Graves 4TH: Ted Unkel VAR: Alan Kelly AVAR: Nick Uranga D.C. United vs Chicago Fire Audi Field (7:30PM ET) REF: Dave Gantar AR1: Adam Wienckowski AR2: Corey Parker 4TH: Ismail Elfath VAR: Jose Carlos Rivero AVAR: Eric Weisbrod Orlando City vs CF Montréal Exploria Stadium (7:30PM ET) REF: Rubiel Vazquez AR1: Jose Da Silva AR2: Jeffrey Swartzel 4TH: Marcos DeOliveira VAR: Chris Penso AVAR: Kyle Longville Sporting Kansas City vs Minnesota United Children’s Mercy Park (8:30PM ET) REF: Robert Sibiga AR1: Kyle Atkins AR2: Logan Brown 4TH: Elvis Osmanovic VAR: Sorin Stoica AVAR: Jozef Batko Austin FC vs Los Angeles FC Q2 Stadium (9PM ET) REF: Tim Ford AR1: Adam Garner AR2: Diego Blas 4TH: Guido Gonzales Jr VAR: Rosendo Mendoza AVAR: Jonathan Johnson Portland Timbers vs Colorado Rapids Providence Park (10PM ET) REF: Armando Villarreal AR1: Jeremy Hanson AR2: Corey Rockwell 4TH: Baldomero Toledo VAR: Jon Freemon AVAR: Joshua Patlak LA Galaxy vs Houston Dynamo Dignity Health Sports Park (10:30PM ET) REF: Kevin Stott AR1: Chantal Boudreau AR2: Eduardo Mariscal 4TH: Victor Rivas VAR: Younes Marrakchi AVAR: Felisha Mariscal San Jose Earthquakes vs Real Salt Lake PayPal Park (10:30PM ET) REF: Nima Saghafi AR1: Cameron Blanchard AR2: Chris Elliott 4TH: Alex Chilowicz VAR: Daniel Radford AVAR: Mike Kampmeinert
thoughts on this VAR handling decision in Austin? From the angle they kept showing it was hard to see exactly where it hit him. Is the sleeve still not a foul? It seems to me if it takes than long and that many looks that it's not obvious.
It's the bottom of the armpit. On a standard jersey, the bottom of the sleeve extends past the armpit. It seems to hit just above the elbow, but the angle shown to us doesn't make that super clear. I'd say based on guideance that a handball offense is the preferred decision, but I'm not sure PRO will say clear and obvious error. But then again, at this point I have no idea with handball.
Its on in Portland. 3 yellows in 3 minutes. You've got Blanco going to the throat of Galvan and picking up a yellow, Trusty then sends a message with a hard foul, and then Portland responds with a hard foul of their own (missed who committed it).
Tuiloma got the other Portland yellow, then 8-9 minutes later commits a borderline yellow offense followed by a borderline red offense in less than 5 seconds and gets his second yellow.
Yeah, on replay that yellow offense was less borderline than I first thought. And all while already on a yellow!
I don’t see how the second one is anything but straight red. Like a very dark version of it, too. For that reason, I have to believe the first offence is technically the one that was punished. Otherwise I’d say it’s a missed OFR to not upgrade to straight red. As it stands, I hope both incidents are written up and sanctioned. That second tackle is atrocious (and, honestly, you can make a case for VC on the first—he has no real need to step on him there; it’s not really a challenge).
Definitely undersold those. I had a straight red on the first one, and a VERY straight red on the second one. The first one was a clear stand on the leg. I agree with MassRef on that, and probably am more strongly in the VC camp than he is. He knew what he was doing. The second one was a two-footed sweep. The final result - Tuiloma's services no longer being required for the rest of the evening's festivities - was met, but it really should have been a straight red for either one of those items.
I get the camera angle is there, but you have to sometimes use common sense when it comes to VAR. Use context clues to piece things together. That's a goal in Toronto. The keeper, who makes the save with his hands, has his hands, practically, halfway inside the net. It's a goal.
Please tell me which part of the video shows the ball clearly and obviously over the line. You can't use "context clues" if the standard is "clear and obvious".
I just finished a webinar and found this thread on here. In the RSL-SJ game from this week, the goal SJ scored to make it 2-2, Nima Saghafi didn't even let RSL get back on their own half before blowing the whistle for kickoff and SJ directly scored a goal 10-15 seconds later. I guess he felt they were taking too long to get back, so three defenders were still on SJ half near the midline and he restarted play, kicker passed through the 3 slackers to an attacker who ran up the field and scored. It was one of the weirder things I've seen allowed in a pro game. Does anyone know if Saghafi got any reprimand for this? RSL ended up winning 4-3 but I had to dig this up and see if anyone remembers. I wonder if it was even shown on replay. We got to see a skycam of the play.