Which team will be the final semi-final tem? Ticos or El Tri? Speak your mind.
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Which team will be the final semi-final tem? Ticos or El Tri? Speak your mind.
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raven
Viva Mexico. The ATL will be off the fucking hook Thursday if they win!
Omnes Omnibus
I gotta go with the Ticos here.
raven
Man, True Detective or the second half???
Bill Murray
Mexico are shooting like a bad U-12 team today
Bitter Scribe
Scoreless tie at the end of regulation. Costa Rica kept getting good chances but shooting it high or wide in the first half, Mexico did the same in the second.
Bill Murray
Evidently Guatemala hates Costa Rica more than Mexico. Worst penalty call I’ve seen outside my local league. Especially after he didn’t red card Peralta for his awful challenge a couple minutes earlier
Bitter Scribe
The officials did a great job–right up to that horrible foul call in the box in the last minute that led to the winning PK for Mexico.
Randinho
So not being able to see the game, was that a legitimate penalty?
Bill Murray
@Randinho: there wasn’t any contact, so only in Italy back when teams could buy the refs
Bill Murray
@Bill Murray: Dr. Joe Machnik former FIFA match commissioner. there was no excuse for that call. the ref did not want to make a call to determine the game when he didn’t red card Peralta (and a couple of Ticos), went ahead and did it in stoppage time after 120.
Patrick
Such an obvious dive and one of the worst calls you will see at the worst possible time. Did the ref have a flight to catch. FIFA should suspend Peralta for simulation and never let that ref and linesman do a match again. Up the with Henri’s handball and the phantom foul USA vs Slovenia. I know the ref in the latter never worked an international match again.
Valdivia
Costa Ricans are mad, I can tell you!
Randinho
I’m pulling for Panama in the semi final.
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: The ones I know are quite mad.
American3
We just had Mexican corruption! In front of our eyes! This reminds me of Boxing!
burnspbesq
Fox, Televisa, and Univision all want a US-Mexico final.
Hopefully, Panama will fuck it up for them.
Wyrm1
Unfortunately stuff like that penalty is a huge part of why soccer will never be big in the US. We have so much experience with corruption in soccer that something like this sets off all of the discussion about CONCACAF wanting Mexico in the semis and a ref that is going to make that happen. Honestly probably the worst call I have seen in a long time. This combined with the brutally bad reffing in Jam vs Haiti yesterday just makes what should ne a great Gold Cup yet another discussion of reffing.
Patrick
If bad calls and poor officiating were obstacles to acceptance of American sports, how can you explain the popularity of the NFL? Also, no sport has had its championship marred by bad calls more than MLB.
I’d love to hear Randinho comment on having your linesman call a penalty like that at that point in the game. The Ref was right there, and signaled a goal kick. What makes the ref change his call? The crazy thing is, if Peralta had actually scored (and there was no chance he was getting to that cross), there would almost be as much made of the fact so much extra time was allowed.
Boria, the American linesman, seems to have some NBA ref in him; it seems like he is looking to make his impact on the game at the most crucial times. Bruce Arena, not the most out of control manager, was suspended for taking issue with a horrible late offside call by Boria a year or two ago. Most great officials (and all the good ones), would never want to decide a game like that.
Missouri Buckeye
Talk about how refs can change the game, I am a Cleveland Indians fan, and I remember the huge strike zone that NL umpire Harry Wendelstedt gave to Greg Maddux in game 1 of the 1995 World Series.
That was the year that the Indians had a veritable Murderer’s Row of hitters (they had gone 100-44 in the shortened 1995 season and had pretty well breezed through the AL playoffs for the Indians first WS in 41 years). Then they came up against Maddux and Wendelstedt and having pitches called strikes that were clearly 6 inches outside. They got 2 hits, 0 walks, and 1 reach on an error (totaling three base runners), still managed to score two of those, and lost 3-2. They never recovered and lost the Series in 6.