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This shit needs to be sanctioned. Miazga needs a card here. I am DYING, hahaha Miazga’s such a wussy hahaha 😆 Célio’s reaction is all of us pic.twitter.com/5nPzYnX6R3— St Louis Soccer Vixen 😘 (@STLCityXO) May 19, 2024
Apparently sounders Twitter is up in arms about a handball call they didn’t get in the 81st minute or so and the handball PK 2nd yellow called against them at around 90. The second incident is, in my view, a clear penalty and yellow card. The first one I think is more interesting and debatable. There is a movement of the arm towards the ball, but to me it looks more like a reflex motion (and therefore not deliberate), and the overall movement of the arm is to pull it up and into the chest. It will split opinions.
I get the point of this and the injury rule, but that doesn’t mean I like them. There are other ways to deal with this. For those wondering why Pinto didn't immediately come in, he had to wait two minutes because it was determined that Acosta took too long coming off. New rule implemented. #FCCincy https://t.co/5EQYXUaoYu— Laurel Pfahler (@LaurelPfahler) May 19, 2024
Just waiting for the inevitable part of the end of the season where Messi has to wait out the 2 minutes and instead of getting disappointed again just comes back onto the pitch early. Either he'll be let on and score or he'll make a scene.
Suarez dove a couple times last night. Once he fooled the ref and once he didn’t. It’ll be interesting if he gets disciplined.
RSL's Matt Crooks also incurred the too slow coming off penalty, which is fine except the rest of the game the center warned Rapids players to hurry or get penalized. Which is also fine IMO except he didn't hurry Crooks along.
I didn’t see it but I doubt this is true. Also, it’s really not up to the referee to make sure every player knows the rules. The “hurry up” is a courtesy and more because the penalty is detrimental to their own match control and one they don’t want to have to enforce.
Sounds like a rule that will be at best inconsistently enforced. Either that or like the 6 second goalkeeper ball-in-hands rule that you never see enforced. Not the fans need a reason to believe the referees have it out for their team.
As seems to regularly be the case, I'd be wary of accepting one angle there. That is a pretty ugly over-the-ball challenge. There's no way of knowing from that single angle if the boot contacts with Miazga on the other side of the ball or not. In fact, I would imagine it did, honestly. Even if it didn't, all players sort of recognize this is an unnecessary way to challenge and actually a pretty dirty play. Try doing that in a local Hispanic amateur league game and see what happens. Regardless, the fascination with carding players for possibly exaggerating injuries confounds me. If we focused more on identifying bad challenges and punishing them approriately, we'd be in a lot better shape. Players whine. They exaggerate--sometimes to deceive, but also sometimes in the hopes of ensuring a referee makes a call that he should be making. This is a foul. It's actually potentially a very bad foul, though thankfully the result isn't bad here. Regardless, that's where our focus should be. I finally got to watch this and, oof, it is worse than I expected. To start, the second one is a penalty--no doubt, really. I question the 2CT, though it is that new grey area where we debate whether or not it's a shot on goal or at goal or toward goal and factor in any speculative nature and the more I write, the less sure I am what the standard is for a caution on something like this. It feels like it doesn't need to be yellow anymore, but maybe I'm wrong. On the first one, it's the classic chicken wing. I get Rivas missing it. The immediate appeals were minor. But I don't know how you don't send that down as a VAR. Feels like a forest for the trees situation. The arm is close to the body and he does tuck it as the ball approaches. So in some ways, he's making his silhouette smaller. But, c'mon. It's a chicken wing, as the announcer identifies. It's the most classic case of a deliberate handball other than the U10 "oops I forgot what sport and I slapped the ball" scenario. The player instinctively blocks a shot with his arm. In the end, I think this is a case where the VAR is focused on "is he unnaturally bigger" and ignores the "did he deliberately handle the ball" standard? Because this might be one of those rare cases where a player is not unnaturally bigger but did deliberately handle.
I don't think the Sounders twitter is up in arms over Nouhou's pk and yellow. It is more in the context of "If the first isn't, then how can you call the second?"