Cruz Azul vs. Toluca last Saturday...

[The_Great_Gazoo]

Any Spanish speakers out there who saw this game? I watched it on Spanish tv and Cruz Azul scored a goal right in front of the Toluca net, but the referee called it off. I could see no reason why it was called off and of course, couldn’t understand the announcer. My Spanish is weak - I was going to ask our Office Depot guy, who wears a Cruz Azul jacket, but he managed to get in and out of the office twice without me seeing him this week.

I won’t even go into another goal that Cruz Azul scored and was discounted.

I am not a Cruz Azul follower, but this just seemed wrong.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

I love the Internet. Google, “Mexican league soccer”, and then some browsing on the website.
http://www.internetsoccer.com/country/mexico/230662.html

18 November 2001 (Teamtalk) –
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Also, America’s hopes are all but gone after a tough road loss while Toluca and Cruz Azul played a classic.

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Toluca 2, Cruz Azul 1. Vicente Sanchez and Rafael “Chiquis” Garcia scored as Toluca won the best match-up of the week.

Toluca’s goals came early and the club relied on defense to pull out the win. Sanchez drew first blood, when he took a pass from Garcia and fired a shot to the far post. The shot deflected off Cruz Azul defender Juan Reynoso and past a helpless Oscar Perez. Three minutes later, Toluca keeper Hernan Cristante sent a booming goal kick into Cruz Azul’s third. Cruz Azul defender David Mendoza tried to clear the ball but instead headed even further down the field. Garcia ran onto the ball with his left foot, crossed it over to his right and beat Perez to the far post. Toluca improve to 31 points, tops in the league pending Tigres’ result on Sunday.

Goals: 1. Toluca, Sanchez 8 (26); 2. Toluca, Garcia 5 (29); 3. Cruz Azul, Cacho 1 (73).

There’s nothing out there on Google along the lines of “we wuz robbed”, but it’s early days yet.

[GIGObuster]

The 2nd annulled goal was actually a good one because the goalkeeper had no control of the ball:
http://mx.sports.yahoo.com/011119/7/66hx.html

(Traduced) Reséndiz, author of the last “goal”, declared on the play: " It was a center pass in which the flagman does not realize that the one that hits the ball last, was the defense of Toluca and it bounced towards Melvin (Brown), he strikes, but the goalkeeper (Hernán Cristante) stopped the ball near the line, I arrived and I kicked it in. .……
From my point of view, where I was, it was obvious that we were not offside, I do not know why the ref annul it. That was an error, we saw it in the repetitions, and the people who specialize in that, called it a good score; unfortunately, it was an arbitration error”

The first annulled goal was not even mentioned in the sporting news. My guess is that it was another offside ruling what eliminated that score.
http://worldsoccer.about.com/library/weekly/aa011299II.htm

[The_Great_Gazoo]

The internet is great. Thanks!

I agree with Reséndiz, there’s no way he was offside. But I suppose we have the luxury of replay and the line judge does not.

I don’t suppose we’ll ever see a review of the call in soccer. Something similar to hockey would probably work if the ref added the time taken to extra time.