05/24/2025 Seattle Sounders vs FC Dallas Lumen Field (3PM ET) Ref: Allen Chapman AR1: Mike Nickerson AR2: Nick Balcer 4th: Alexis Da Silva VAR: Chris Penso AVAR: Tom Supple San Diego vs LA Galaxy Snapdragon Stadium (4:45PM ET) Ref: Jon Freemon AR1: Kyle Atkins - 200th AR AR2: Corey Parker 4th: Elijio Arreguin VAR: Sorin Stoica AVAR: Jonathan Johnson Charlotte vs Columbus Crew Bank of America Stadium (7:30PM ET) Ref: Lukasz Szpala AR1: Cory Richardson AR2: Nick Uranga 4th: Corbyn May VAR: Ramy Touchan AVAR: Claudiu Badea D.C. United vs New York Red Bulls Audi Field (7:30PM ET) Ref: Malik Badawi AR1: Matthew Nelson AR2: Meghan Mullen 4th: Lorenzo Hernandez VAR: Jorge Gonzalez AVAR: Jonathan Johnson CF Montréal vs Los Angeles FC Stade Saputo (7:30PM ET) Ref: Rubiel Vazquez AR1: Jeffrey Greeson AR2: Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho 4th: Renzo Villanueva VAR: Sorin Stoica AVAR: Corey Rockwell Orlando City vs Portland Timbers Inter&Co Stadium (7:30PM ET) Ref: Jair Marrufo AR1: Eric Weisbrod AR2: Kevin Klinger 4th: Ricardo Montero Araya VAR: Kevin Terry Jr AVAR: Joshua Patlak Philadelphia Union vs Inter Miami Subaru Park (7:30PM ET) Ref: Drew Fischer AR1: Micheal Barwegen AR2: Lyes Arfa 4th: Luis Diego Arroyo VAR: Kevin Stott AVAR: Mike Kampmeinert Toronto vs Nashville BMO Field (7:30PM ET) Ref: Armando Villarreal AR1: Gerard-Kader Lebuis AR2: Ben Pilgrim 4th: Scott Bowman VAR: Younes Marrakchi AVAR: Jozef Batko Sporting Kansas City vs New England Revolution Children’s Mercy Park (8:30PM ET) Ref: Sergii Boiko AR1: Walt Heatherly AR2: Kevin Lock 4th: Brandon Stevis VAR: Katja Koroleva AVAR: Brian Dunn Minnesota United vs Austin FC Allianz Field (8:30PM ET) Ref: Joe Dickerson AR1: Cameron Blanchard AR2: Logan Brown 4th: Ismir Pekmic VAR: Chris Penso AVAR: Tom Supple Colorado Rapids vs St Louis CITY Dick’s Sporting Goods Park (9:30PM ET) Ref: Tori Penso AR1: Brooke Mayo AR2: Kathryn Nesbitt 4th: Marcos DeOliveira VAR: Daniel Radford AVAR: Robert Schaap Real Salt Lake vs Vancouver Whitecaps America First Field (9:30PM ET) Ref: Filip Dujic AR1: Felisha Mariscal AR2: Diego Blas 4th: JC Griggs VAR: Ismail Elfath AVAR: Andrew Bigelow San Jose vs Houston Dynamo PayPal Park (10:30PM ET) Ref: Sergii Demianchuk AR1: Chris Elliott AR2: Stefan Tanaka-Freundt 4th: Ricardo Fierro VAR: Younes Marrakchi AVAR: Mike Kampmeinert 05/25/2025 New York City vs Chicago Fire Yankee Stadium (3PM ET) Ref: Rosendo Mendoza AR1: Adam Wienckowski AR2: Gianni Facchini 4th: Thomas Snyder VAR: Jorge Gonzalez AVAR: Joshua Patlak Atlanta United vs FC Cincinnati Mercedes-Benz Stadium (7PM ET) Ref: Guido Gonzales Jr AR1: Jason White AR2: Tyler Wyrostek 4th: Pierre-Luc Lauziere VAR: Greg Dopka AVAR: Fabio Tovar
Since premier league (and mens volleyball) are basically over for the year, will start watching MLS. Going to watch COL v. STL and write some notes on Tori Penso this week
Are we still watching the Kyle Atkins-Corey Parker pairing these days? Especially with Elfath in the VAR booth this weekend?
I'm just annoyed they didn't line them up a little better. This one is #298 for Parker. We could have had some wonderful round numbers.
I’d be paying more attention to an emerging trio for Dickerson, perhaps. All three of those, I believe, are going to Gold Cup. The Parker-Atkins matchup is both obvious and strange. Unless Elfath is coming back, I don’t understand where it lands or what it results in. I don’t see any scenario where the two of them go with Dickerson.
Thought T. Penso had a good game (Colorado v. St. Louis). Pretty easy one in general, but she was on the spot for most of it. Calls were a bit messy at times with AR1 (Mayo) not giving her a ton of help on multiple occasions. One thing I noticed was T. Penso likes to hang a little bit further forward in build-up, almost in front of the center backs. This is fine, but does put her pretty far behind play on transition.
Thoroughly aggrieved by this. Call stands after an OFR. 1926744793972883597 is not a valid tweet id 1926745613271449799 is not a valid tweet id I guess he didn't like the shin to shin contact after the ball was played.
I came to this thread for the CHI-NYCFC penalty. I agree that it shouldn’t have been a foul. In the box, refs grant a lot more leeway to overly hard follow through. In the midfield, that’s probably a foul for too much force. In the box, usually that’s not given. While I think soccer would be a better sport with less “situational refereeing,” I think it would be worse with none at all. This play is a good example of how to draw that line.
I wish the VAR protocol was changed so that the center could go to the monitor earlier in the process on close decisions; before the VAR has settled on clear and obvious. It might lead to more wasted time on rejected reviews, but it would be minimal because the VAR is still having his think anyway. More than made up by the time not spent getting the center up to speed once he gets there.
Absolutely no idea how this isn’t a PK in ATL-FCC (51’) This is merely the latest in what seems to be a (politely put) disaster for Guido
It's been an interesting game, regardless. Early incident that knocked Hagglund out of the game that I think is likely missed VC 2nd ATL goal goes between the legs of a player in an offside position, but was there impact? CIN attacker knees a defender in the head, and everyone seems to think he got fouled by Guzan somehow.
I was referring to the likely missed VC above and the absence of a review when the ball goes through the legs of a player in OSP in front of the GK but nothing given also the incident with guzan - no touch on the ball and he simply clears out the Cincinnati attacker
I think what really got me in this game is how he handled the aftermath of Haglund’s injury regardless of the circumstances of what happened, a player is down and is seriously hurt. He was subbed out immediately and appeared to be having trouble catching his breath (preliminary reports say broken rib) He’s not a player who flops or is mouthy. He’s coming off with two trainers (+/- a doctor- I can’t tell) and heading directly for the tunnel to go to the locker room/medical room. guido twice tells him to get off the field at the nearest point making his walk around the field much longer. He’s clearly in pain and the trainers are trying to get him off ASAP and guido is insisting he go off right there. I can read lips enough to get an “AYFKM?” From someone there and then it cuts away to me that shows a lack of situational understanding and lack of respect. And if PRO has given them so little room for discretion so that such events have to be managed exactly the same way then I would suggest we are on the path to what PGMO has done to English refereeing
I could see this - I’d have it the other way like I said but I don’t think that’s unreasonable I think no call isn’t a great decision here
If you're seeing a "tweet id not found" or whatever message, that just seems to happen sometimes. Seems to have become a thing over the last few years for some reason. It still shows up for me on mobile, both times.