US vs Slovenia

WTF.... I've been reffing 17 and 19 year olds all week and none of them have played as poorly as the US did in the first 20 or so minutes. Slovenia's first goal should never have happened. That was truly sloppy defending, and while I won't name names... Howard was well positioned but being screened by Onyewu there wasn't much for him to do.

The rest of the first half was a decent match, the second goal was scored because the US just wasn't back in place after their near goal. After that things shaped up nicely and the US played a good game.

Beginning of the second half Donovan showed yet again that he is not overrated as a player nor leader for the US. After beating the defenders in the right corner he had no options left but to put the ball on net and he took a beautiful shot that Handanovič could only flinch at. Finally after Bradley's goal where he eliminated any theories of possible nepotism, we have the 85th minute Free kick that set it up outside the box. On the kick we have 3 fouls against the US in the box so I was expecting a Penalty Kick when Edu scored! Then i heard the whistle and thought oh brother this ref doesn't know when to call advantage. But then I realized it was going the other way. What just happened. I made a video so we could review the play a little bit.

I still see nothing, but I guess I'm just wrong. Like I said earlier I've been reffing all weekend, and in Blaine before my game in the tournament up there, we had the play up on a projector and were all trying to figure out what the call was. There were two Slovenians there and they both agreed that there was nothing there. Anyways its a pity that he won't say anything about the call to the public I don't know how much trouble he'd get in if he just admitted that it was a bad call, but it would certainly give me a lot of closure.