The central referee for the Los Angeles Galaxy vs. Columbus Crew match was supposed to be Hilaro Grajeda. Link.
Instead the Columbus Crew on Saturday received 30 year old Joseph Dickerson making his debut at center ref.
In parts, his debut was a bit of a head-scratcher.
MLS Referee Rule Book Lessons. Lesson 84. How to referee a game in favor of a superstar and push the game in a positive direction for a rather lackluster team. pic.twitter.com/wO2fwnYdqI
— CREWTURE.NET (@crewture) July 8, 2018
Regardless, Columbus should’ve played better and put the game away well before LA’s goal and the VAR overturn.
Columbus needs to pick four every day starters in defense and just go with them.
Perhaps the same at other positions, as I think the by committee method is perhaps why Berhalter teams haven’t broken through.
Every team should know their best eleven at this point in the MLS season.
But, at the very least Zlatan Ibrahimovic should’ve received a yellow on his retaliation hit on Lalas Abubukar.
And it just gets more questionable from there.
Easy to blame it all on the referee though.
Columbus should be at a point in these games where they don’t have to depend on referee calls and no calls.
I'm a bit tired of us controlling entire games and the other team scores. This Galaxy team is shit.
— CREWTURE.NET (@crewture) July 8, 2018
Whining over a call/no-call doesn’t cover up the fact that the Crew couldn’t score… that’s the real truth in why they lost
— Matt Ramah (@squathard) July 8, 2018
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