FC Dallas goal ruled out with 1st use of video replay in MLS history
It took one day for video replay to glitz up Major League Soccer.
After three years of conception, preparation, and training, video replay made its full debut in MLS on Saturday. In the first usage of the system in the league's history, FC Dallas had an 79th-minute goal disallowed in its 3-1 defeat to the Philadelphia Union. Ricardo Salazar, the referee, used video replay and determined that Cristian Colman committed a foul on John McCarthy before Maximiliano Urruti blasted the ball past the American 'keeper.
.@FCDallas goal ruled out after Video Review. #PHIvDAL https://t.co/ZYQ2ziu3yV
— Major League Soccer (@MLS) August 6, 2017
The match resumed with the Union being awarded a free-kick where the foul was committed.
The use of video replay in MLS is limited to four game-changing incidents: goals; penalty-kick decisions; straight red cards; and cases of mistaken identity where the wrong player is cautioned, ejected, and the like. Only objectively incorrect decisions can be reviewed.