In the 66th minute of the United States-Uruguay match, the third match of Group C of the Copa America for both teams, the terrible event occurred: Mathias Olivera taps in a free kick from the right, flicked on by a teammate and parried by the American goalkeeper, Bielsa’s team celebrates and flies to the quarter-finals. It’s a shame that the goal seems to have been tainted by an offside from the start by the winger Napoli.
The fury of the players of the States It started already during the match, with Pulisic who didn’t mince his words with the referee at the final whistle, who even avoided shaking his hand after his protests. Now the audio of the VAR emerges from South America, where it is clear, as he tells TycSports in Argentina, that the reviewers were drawing lines by measuring Olivera’s position from the most advanced knee, but from the conversation that emerges it is not clear whether they were focusing on the positioning of the feet, rather than on the knee itself. The verdict is known: “Both situations are fine, regular goal”, Carlos communicated Orbresponsible for the VAR, to the match referee Kevin Ortega.
American coach Gregg Berhalter at the end of the match he expressed all his disappointment: “It’s really crazy. I don’t understand this decision. I feel like I know the rules quite well. We have the video that shows how it can be seen by everyone as an offside goal. It’s disappointing, really. But these things happen in football and we have to accept them”.
