At the World Cup in South Africa, the USA soccer team rallied from a 2-0 deficit at halftime to earn a 2-2 draw in their match with Slovenia today. Landon Donovan and Michael Bradley, the coach's son scored in the second half for the U.S. The U.S. should have gotten the win with a goal late in the game by Maurice Edu that was disallowed by some sort of phantom call. It wasn't offsides and there wasn't a foul against any of our players. It was simply a terrible call. Inexcusable. It's really too bad because we earned that win. The officiating was poor throughout the game, but this call was just unacceptable. It's hard to take when I know we should have had a win and now it becomes more difficult to advance to the knockout stage.
However, it still was a remarkable comeback and the U.S. showed great resiliency in getting the draw. They were pretty bad in the first half though in falling behind 2-0 and you just can't throw away halves like that in the World Cup. I thought Donovan's goal within the first four minutes of the second half really helped the USA to feel like they were right in the game. Another Group C match is coming up at 12:30 p.m. MT on ESPN2 and espn3.com. It'll be England vs. Algeria. If Algeria wins, then the U.S. can be assured of advancing with a win against them next Wednesday. If not, then we may need some help. It's hard to sort out right now. It'll be easier to sort out when the England-Algeria match is in the books.
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That call really was inexcusable. I would love to hear that official's comments about what was going through his head when he made that call. Like you said, it wasn't offsides and if any call should have been made it should have been against Slovenia's players for raping a least two USA players seconds before we somehow managed to score that goal.
ReplyDeleteYeah the whole thing really is a joke. What really grills me is that FIFA won't hold him accountable and he won't say anything about it. At least David Stern tries to gain credibility for his officials, FIFA considers the human part of the game as belonging. Human yes, but after a call like that, that ref should not have a job anymore. At least we know that if we just beat Algeria next Wednesday we'll move on. Hopefully we can at least do that.
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