MLS Week 8 - 2018

[LionNYC]

TUESDAY
Toronto vs. Club Deportivo Guadalajara 8:15 PM (CCL Final 1st Leg)

FRIDAY
Kansas City vs. Vancouver 9 PM

SATURDAY
Montreal vs. LAFC 1 PM
Houston vs. Toronto 3 PM
Red Bulls vs. Chicago 3:30 PM (Univision, Twitter)
Columbus vs. New England 7:30 PM
Orlando vs. San Jose 7:30 PM
Dallas vs. Philadelphia 8 PM
Salt Lake vs. Colorado 9 PM
LA Galaxy vs. Atlanta 10:30 PM

SUNDAY
Seattle vs. Minnesota 4 PM (ESPN)
Portland vs. NYCFC 6 PM (FS1)

 

[Gotham Gator]

Sporting KC - Vancouver starting the second half.

If you see this in time, tune in.

SKC was up 3-0 on a Johnny Russell brace and a ridiculous goalazo from Medranda.

Then, there was a melee after which two Vancouver players were red carded - surprisingly, neither of them were Felipe or Brek Shea. So, it is 11 on 9.

SKC had a penalty saved just before half and a 3rd Johnny Russell goal just after. They just knocked in #5 in the 54th minute.

 

[joe]

Sporting KC - Vancouver starting the second half.

If you see this in time, tune in.

SKC was up 3-0 on a Johnny Russell brace and a ridiculous goalazo from Medranda.

Then, there was a melee after which two Vancouver players were red carded - surprisingly, neither of them were Felipe or Brek Shea. So, it is 11 on 9.

SKC had a penalty saved just before half and a 3rd Johnny Russell goal just after. They just knocked in #5 in the 54th minute.

I dropped Johnny Russell from my fantasy squad this week

 

[Midas Mulligan]

Screw VAR.

 

[Ulrich]

Damn I hate matches like that - haven’t seen the replay, by a double red allowing them to run up the score really screws the rest of the league. It’s not that SKC is that amazing, it’s that they hit the accelerator against 9, and league standings won’t qualify that. The point of the two reds was to give a huge advantage in the current game, which is deserved, not shift tiebreakers and such. Ugh... I guess kudos to Vermes for taking advantage of the situation and his players for executing; doesn’t change the fact I dislike the situation created.

 

[Ulrich]

Just watched the VAR and it sure looked like Russel ran into the guys forearm as opposed to the forearm striking him. Russell was the first guy in with hands shoving Waston and then he couldn’t be held back from getting in others guys faces. Russell definitely should have been tossed and I’m not sure two reds for Vancouver were justified. What a shitshow for VAR.

 

[mgarbowski]

The red card situation was a wild scene.
Kendall Waston made a bad challenge with his cleats and then stood over the player he hit to yell at him.
This is my shocked face.
He gets a yellow.
Johnny Russell runs over and puts hands on Waston to pull him away. He gets a yellow.
Yordy Reyna tackles Russell to the ground. Red card after review.
Russell gets up. Efrain Juarez hits him in the face. Red card after review.

I also saw Ghazal hit Khiry in the face. Could have been a third red card.
And Aja also hit Russell in the face. Could have been 4 red cards on Vancouver by the book.

Russell should have maybe had a red himself as he instigated the whole thing by putting hands on Waston, but the rules say a hand barely grazing the face is a red card, while extreme violence anywhere else is referee's discretion. And it doesn't matter if it was an accident, or even in jest (see Kaka last year) The problem is the ref gave Waston and Russell their yellows before watching the video, so I'm not sure he could upgrade Russell's card based on review for being the instigator. The ref probably shouldn't have given Reyna a red for the tackle, as it was basically the same offense as Russell, except Russell didn't have the strength to take the much bigger Waston to ground. Giving Reyna a yellow would have been more balanced. But as there were 2 other hand to face incidents by Vancouver they can't complain.

Just watched the VAR and it sure looked like Russel ran into the guys forearm as opposed to the forearm striking him.

Juarez has his left arm extended and his full hand on Russell's face. The forearm has nothing to do with it.

 

[mgarbowski]

Meant to include a photo for the last part.

Juarez is front center with left hand on Russell's face, and right arm cocked as if about to punch (which he had the sense not to do).

 

[Ulrich]

Meant to include a photo for the last part.View attachment 8578

Juarez is front center with left hand on Russell's face, and right arm cocked as if about to punch (which he had the sense not to do).

So Russell is the new Felipe?

 

[Gotham Gator]

To be fair to SKC, they were up 3-0 by the 30th minute. The red card(s) incident came in the 40th minute.

SKC were rolling Vancouver out of the stadium just going 11 on 11. That probably contributed to the whole situation - the initial foul and the counter reaction from Vancouver. The Whitecaps were in a foul mood.

The game really could have been 8-0 or 9-0, but SKC missed a couple of chances, including a penalty, and definitely took their foot off the gas in the last 15-20 minutes.

I don't like VAR red cards generally, but these on the whole were fair. The ref, if anything, was restrained.

 

[mgarbowski]

So Russell is the new Felipe?

I was pretty shocked at how many Vancouver players he goaded into clear violations. But to be clear, the non-called hand-to-face incidents I mentioned above were minor, and IMO not red worthy except under the current no-fault, no-excuse, no-context rules.

 

[Midas Mulligan]

Juarez has his left arm extended and his full hand on Russell's face. The forearm has nothing to do with it.

In full speed, it looked like a big nothing.

I hate that rule about facial contact. Juarez didn't look particularly vicious.id have tried really hard not to see it .

The red on Reyna was dumb.

That ref was a pencil dick .

 

[mgarbowski]

In full speed, it looked like a big nothing.

I hate that rule about facial contact. Juarez didn't look particularly vicious.id have tried really hard not to see it .

The red on Reyna was dumb.

That ref was a pencil dick .

I’ve hated the combination of VAR and the hands to the face rule from the beginning but I can’t kill any individual ref for calling it the way the league obviously wants it done.

 

[Ulrich]

I was pretty shocked at how many Vancouver players he goaded into clear violations. But to be clear, the non-called hand-to-face incidents I mentioned above were minor, and IMO not red worthy except under the current no-fault, no-excuse, no-context rules.

I’ve always been of the belief that no players should crowd a foul situation, and any player goading others that receive a card is deserving of the same. They always say it’s not the first foul that’s caught but the second, and without VAR that’s true, but if we’re gonna use VaR to grab every little infraction, then the guy antagonizing during the stoppage is more guilty than the other because he’s getting in faces unprovoked as a third party to the original infraction.

 

[LeeNYCFC]

I’m like Charlie Brown and the football with Univision Deportes in HD. Every time I forget and assume Fios can flip me over to HD, and every time I’m left with a terribly cropped SD picture and less than zero desire to pay $15 more a month for the HD version of a channel I already get.

 

[LeeNYCFC]

And the Bulls are wearing this tire fire

Looks awfully sky blue....

 

[LeeNYCFC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/987790271051190273

 

[Gotham Gator]

https://twitter.com/x/status/987788655543676929

 

[LeeNYCFC]

DOGSO drama, Robles commits a foul for a PK as the only player near the ball and Sbiga gives him yellow not red

https://twitter.com/x/status/987804960107782144

 

[mgarbowski]

A Galaxy win over Atlanta would do so nicely tonight.