Analysis: USA-SVN - Coulibaly (MLI)

Re: US-Slovenia: COULIBALY

while you still can, you should update the thread title to be consistent with the format of the other match analysis threads in the forum.

 

Re: US-Slovenia: COULIBALY

This is all I good find. did not check the FIFA site yet though.

http://worldreferee.com/site/copy.php?linkID=719&linkType=referee&contextType=bio

 

It doesn't take a great deal of effort....

https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?p=21002566

 

hmm.......It's amazing to me that he could do this with so much at stake. Just like the Nigeria player the other day. There is a lot on the line Dempsey. Your team suffers when we play with 10 for 88 minutes.

 

Talk about making up a call. Not even close to a handball. Only for the AR to blow an offside call that led to the second Slovenia goal. Wow!

 

He must have thought that Findley tried to handle the ball. I don't know what he saw, but or replay, a laughable decision. At this rate, though, the American's have way more to worry about than the referee.

 

I thought so at first glance, but the replay showed that he was even. They are playing like crap. This is not the referee's fault.

 

I think you want to look again. He was half a yard onside.

 

Wonder if Bradley will take the team to Pizza Hut after the match to enjoy the sweet taste of defeat. Haaa!

 

Check the replay carefully and you can see that the HEAD (foremost legal playing body part) of the attacker is well beyond the FOOT (hindmost legal playing body part) of the defender. That's offside. The replay shown about two minutes after the incident froze the frame before the passer had hit the ball.

 

That is exactly my point. Thank you! The black line for the next to last defender is shown even with the Slovenia players feet. He is leaning forward, therefore, by extension his torso, arms and head are ahead of the black line. The American defender is facing the Slovenian goal so he is not leaning towards the American goal.

 

Contact was made with the forearm, not the elbow. It was Dempsey who contacted the ball, not the Slovenian. He didn't use the elbow as a weapon, but as a tool. Not too debatable? I beg to differ.

 

I don't think so. It looked pretty clearly onside to me.

The yellow for the handball was ridiculously harsh, but I guess you can count it "even" karma-wise for the Dempsey elbow.

Still, missing the elbow and awarding the yellow for the handball both look bad for the ref. On the plus side, he's still got a long way to go to match the complete officiating nightmare of the Ger-Srb game.

 

When in doubt......keep the flag down!

 

Agree that the tie goes to the attacker, but the offside was in fact about two feet to a yard. Given the generally high quality of officiating in the bulk of the tournament, this referee team is below standard. Then again, so is the US team. A fair penalty for the US' peformance would a 1-0 deficit.

 

Would have to say thi is the worst job the officials have done so far this world cup

 

This is like deja vu to watching Hugh Dallas when USA played Germany, except he runs around a bit more.

 

70' USA free kick just outside the PA.

Wall set at 7 yards.

 

good thing at least he got it right and didnt award the eslovenian player a red card. Some people think there is a FIFA rule about "last man" commiting a faul deserving a red card. There is no such thing. What the rules say is about a CLEAR chance of goal. To me it was not a clear chance, since both players were struggling for the ball and the american was advancing towards the side of the box, not right in the direction of the goal.