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Real Salt Lake snatches draw from jaws of victory
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Officials need to learn that they are not there to try and find cards and pks. They are not there to unfairly award a goal to one team or another. They should do anything they can to avoid giving a pk or a card. Only give a pk if the foul or handball stopped a goal. I would never give a foul in the box away from the goal, or when a player could score but falls easily to try for a pk, or a handball that wasn't intentional or didn't block a goal. Fans, players, and coaches hate pk's and red cards. They should only be given when they blatantly prevented a likely goal or a players are hurting each other. Thats how officials in the big leagues do it.
Thats not to excuse Olave's red however. They guy is a headcase, and if you think about it that little kick he gave kamara while sliding over the endline was probably his worst offense of the night and it went unpunished. If he were on another team, Id hate his guts. He's almost that guy you love to have on your team, but know everyone else hates him, but he may have crossed the line last night. Continuing to shoot the entire franchise in the foot for stupid mistakes is not acceptable.
But well done to the team, they overcame some obvious adversity and came away with a result.
I thought the first half was tremendous...every player was playing high intensity soccer and were thinking quickly on their feet. That second yellow was amateur play. Calm down Olave and play like you own the place ('cause you do). He was very strong in the first half...gave a lot of confidence to our back line. The "foul" and yellow on Rimando was mind-boggling! That muggy heat must've gotten to the ref...awful call!
Unfortunately we didn't know how to mark Ching (of all people) as he ran through 4 defenders to score unmarked! Late lapses seal our fate as mediocre once again.
I'll still cheer 'em on every game, but man that one stings! Go RSL.
I guess Horst is on loan and won't be available for Toronto, Johnson is gone for Gold cup, but that also means that DeRo, and Gavara will be out for Toronto.
I felt like justice was served when Rimando saved that pk. Rimando had his back to Ching and extended his arms to catch the ball. Ching kicked his arms out of the way and plowed him over. Ching got rewarded with a yellow card on Rimando and a pk. Nice.
Would have been nice to see us finish out with all eleven. We could have subbed Findley on for counter attacks instead of one defender after another.
The goal by Ching was a good run and a good pass. I can't pin that play on ONE player. It was a team issue.
Also if you would have watched the game(rather than be an internet board critic) you would've seen that the houston dynamo got bood off the field even though they tied it up late.. See it was basically a loss for them and a win for us. But you dont really care you have never even given the sport a chance..
Eskandarian plays for Chivas. He came to RSL from Toronto and then went to Chivas. He has started 2 games and played in 7.
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