And he's right. If you aren't going to have VAR in a World Cup qualifier, why even have VAR? Typical cheap CONCACAF to not invest in the whole process, and it bites them here. It's a red card. I know I'm a USMNT fan, but that has to be a sendoff.
Not agreeing with him. Just posting another opinion. Not DOGSO. Distance from goal: iffy. Direction toward goal: level w/ the outside edge of the PA. I don't even think Arriola actually touched the ball.US fans would *never* expect a RC given to us.#VAR or not, it's a correct YC for Stopping a Promising Attack.#USMNT #USAvJAM— Jonathan Johnson (@AsstRef) October 7, 2021
I initially thought no foul on that Aaronson play, so I'm okay with yellow. The Jamaican defender got the ball first and then cleared out Aaronson.
It should be 11 v 9 right now. Not only was that DOGSO, that was borderline SFP. This guy is completely out of his depth. He's just awful.
Now....that one at 33'.....#USMNT #USAvJAM https://t.co/9YSwBuYFSC— Jonathan Johnson (@AsstRef) October 8, 2021
Cost is simply pretextual. The smaller countries do not want VAR because it’s more difficult to screw the big dogs if there are cameras everywhere. FIFA should just ban CONCACAF ate this point. Much like the WWE, CONCACAF matches are closer to entertainment than sport.
I want to ask a technical question. Hypothetically, there's a duel 20 yards from goal, with no other defender in sight. The defender tackles the ball away; at that moment, there is no OGSO. On the follow through, the defender kicks the attacker, in a reckless way. CAN that be DOGSO? Because at the instant of the foul, there was no OGSO, but the tackle and the follow through is part of the same motion.
Is his positioning in the attacking third really weird, or is that just me? Been a few collisions and near collisions. I'm not impressed, to say the least.
Seems like we’re using the part of the rule book that says “give a yellow if you don’t feel like giving a red no matter what the rules say.”
And then he waves off the clear hand shove in the back on Arriola probably half a step inside the PA. By itself, probably could be chalked up to managing the game (though without VAR, he could have placed that just outside the PA). But in combination with the two waved-off DOGSOs? Radix is afraid to make big decisions.
"It's soccer, Captain, but not as we know it." (With apologies to Dr. McCoy, or the scriptwriter) Back to Netflix PH
This is what happens when you have a referee from a country whose top division MAYBE is equivalent to a Division III or NAIA men's conference in the United States. He just has no courage, and the ESPN studio crew correctly called it. Salazar openly asked whether this referee just didn't have the courage to make the big calls.
I don’t think it has anything to do with fear or lack of courage. There is an unwritten understanding that Mexico and the USA must earn every goal in qualifying. Red cards and PK’s are few and far between.