Was Chicho Arango Offside in Game-Winning Goal vs. Sporting Kansas City.

See Forsberg here. Just too quick. It's a poor challenge as well. It is a poor challenge. It's a scissor challenge. The good thing is Forsberg is okay. Welcome to Instant Replay for MLS Matchday 12. I'm your host Andrew Weavey, and as always we're taking a closer look at the most controversial refereeing decisions in Major League Soccer. We start with who else? Inter Miami. Not Lionel Messi though, so there's a feather in our cap. 57th minute. Emil Forsberg picking up the ball in the midfield. Tomas Avila is coming in to put in a... Oh, no, no. That's a nasty challenge on the Sweden International. Torre Penso's the referee. She immediately goes to the front pocket. Yellow card for this one. There's no video review initiated by Edwin Juracevic, the VAR, and a flood of you hit my Twitter mentions to say, Hey, this should be a red card. This is serious foul play. Excessive force and or endangering the safety of the opponent. And I gotta say I mostly agree with that camp. For me this is serious foul play and the reasons are thus. In my opinion, this is endangering the safety of Forsberg. Watch how his knee buckles in. For me, Forsberg is just lucky that he's not planted in a different way. Had he been, this could be a really bad situation. So as I look at this play in a Petri dish, I'm saying red card. But remember, there's a big world outside the Petri dish of Instant Replay. Torre Penso is managing an entire game, and this game was popping in the moment that this happened. Let's just watch back this entire play and see how the players react to her decisions on the field. Notice, Forsberg is not hopping mad about this yellow card decision. None of the Red Bulls are. And Inter-Miami players don't seem to think that Iveliss is in danger of being sent off. So what does that say to me? Torre Penso has a good hold on this game. The players respect the decisions she's making, and in the end, though I think this is probably a red card, Sporting Kansas City cannot be okay with the offside law. It bit them again. 81st minute in Sandy. RSL get the game-winning goal from Chichu Arango, but look down that line, folks. We've talked a lot about the parallax effect, and it's minimal on this just given the placement of the camera. We are almost in line. Almost. And with this angle, my brain is saying, yeah, just a hair offside. But the call on the field is a good goal, and I would never, as the VAR, in this case Chris Penso, send Tim Ford, the referee, to the monitor for a clear and obvious error that this is onside and a goal. I just don't think you can say that given the very small degree that Arango may be on or offside. Here's the math done by our good friend at Soccer Photogrammetry. It's crazy close, and that's with trigonometry. Of course, the referees don't have that live or in video review. So as it stands, given the processes in place, I understand why this goal stands. It's pretty clear why this Vancouver goal in the 20th minute against Austin was taken off. Watch closely here. They caught it on video review. Yeah, Fafapiko handles the ball, which then falls to his teammate, who scores. The law is pretty clear on this one. It is an offense if a player scores in the opponent's goal immediately after the ball has touched their hand or arm, even if accidental. This was accidental, but it led to the goal, and it doesn't count, and rightfully so. Now, here's the big call. First half stoppage time, about 50 minutes in. Alex Ring is bearing down on Fafapiko, who's gonna try to take a shot with his right foot. The players come together. Fafa goes down. He wants a penalty, and Marcos de Oliveira, the referee, says, nope, play on. You notice Marcachi's the VAR, and Marcachi sees a foul on this play. He says it's clear and obvious, sends de Oliveira to the monitor. De Oliveira takes his time, watches the play, and says, no, I'm sticking with my call on the field. No penalty. Boy, when I watched this the first time live, I was screaming from the mountaintops. This is a penalty. Watch Ring go through the back of Fafapiko. But the more you watch it, the more that you see the contact that takes Fafa down is more likely the shoulder-to-shoulder contact from Ring, and I think that's why de Oliveira says, no penalty, sticking with my call on the field. Meanwhile, if I'm trying to put myself in Marcachi's shoes, and hey, I was there. I thought this was a penalty. Watch the back legs, the left knee in particular of Ring. It looks like it comes back and through the legs of Fafapiko. So this one is going to split opinion, but in the end, after a long review and self-examination, I'm okay with the way de Oliveira handled it. For him, it wasn't a clear and obvious penalty, and I think I agree. This is, however, clear and obvious, Toronto-Dallas. Federico Bernardeschi is scoring goals for the first time since last August. This one is clearly offside, but he would get a couple later on, so no sweat. You see, right down the line, Bernardeschi behind the second-to-last defender. All right, fast-forward to the 45th minute. Jonathan Osorio is going down under pressure from Patrickson Delgado. Foul is called on the field. Pierre-Louis Clauzier says, hey, that's a penalty, and it stands. No review initiated by VAR Jorge Gonzalez. But I think a review should have been initiated. For me, this is not a foul. Yes, Delgado is tackling from behind, but he comes around the player, wins the ball with the right foot, and I don't see enough contact between the legs to call a foul. Now, maybe you could convince yourself that there's a push in the back, but again, I don't think that's enough to take Osorio down. My preference here would be no foul, no penalty. Well done to the crew in the Charlotte-Portland game. Here comes Yuri Tavares, and down goes Tavares. Foul is the call by Malik Badawi, and that's a penalty. Only the VAR Caroline Chouinard spots what we can all see on replay, and that is Tavares simulating this contact. He has not fouled. He goes down in his own accord, and Badawi hands him the yellow card after review. Well done to everybody on this one, and well done to the crew in Nashville. There was a long video review after an own goal in the 83rd minute, and the goal was eventually taken off or offside. Here's why. You can see the final touch from Raheem Edwards, Mason Toy is in an offside position. Now, the ball does touch Nashville defenders, but is it a deliberate touch? The answer is no. These are not deliberate touches. Therefore, Toy is in an offside position, and when he attempts to play the ball, that makes this an offside offense. And this is a denying an obvious goal scoring offense and a red card for Rodrigo Schlegel. It's outside the box, so no double jeopardy, but watch Schlegel slide in, get the left foot of Yuya Kubo, who very cleverly moves the ball away. That contact, the foul as the final defender, easy call, especially if you're in the video review box. Yunus Marcaci was, he spotted the contact, flagged Ismael Elfath, and they got the call right. Red card and ascending off. All right, that's it for me. Big thanks to my producers and editors, Phil Ivanko and Rich Hernandez, and thank you to everyone who sends me nominations on Saturday and Sunday. We'll see you next time.