Tag: Men’s Soccer

Olympic VAR brought Argentina and Morocco back to play 3 minutes after it overturned a tying goal hours later

That’s a new one.

You can take a CONMEBOL team out of a CONMEBOL competition, but the mayhem will apparently follow them.

Argentina — coming off a chaotic Copa America win with its senior national team — sent a talented under-23 side to the Paris Olympics. And for a moment, it seemed like Argentina had pulled off a late equalizer against Morocco.

After a seemingly never-ending series of deflections off players and the bar, Argentina’s Cristian Medina headed home an apparent tying goal to send the crowd at Saint-Étienne into a frenzy. The scene was so wild that fans stormed the field, which forced the referees to suspend the match.

Both teams went to the dressing rooms and had to be called back to finish the match in an empty stadium after a warmup. And it wasn’t until that point when VAR finally took a look at the goal, which was clearly offside.

So, Argentina basically had all that time thinking it had tied a match at the death only to go back down a goal hours later.

Morocco would hold on in those final three minutes of stoppage time and win, 2-1. And we thought the Copa America was a mess. That ordeal took disorganization to a new level.

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