As someone who was one of Barton's biggest fans, I don't know what's happened to him. He's awful now. He had a nightmare in the Nations League, and he's been all over the place today.
Are we watching the same thing? He has his eyes tracking the ball the whole time. If anything, he's kind of at fault for not being aware of Turner having come out to beat him to the ball and just plowing into him. But the idea that this was deliberate or done with malice strikes me as fanciful. It's not like he came into him with studs or an elbow or a knee. He had his whole body collide with him. It was painful for him as well. It's a foul. Could be reckless yellow. But nothing more than that.
To be fair here... A) What is Carter-Vickers doing even making a "challenge" there? and B) I was fooled at first glance too, as were even the announcers This was a dumb, risky tackle by Carter-Vickers that absolutely looked like a penalty. I don't think Barton deserves to be raked over the coals for that.
Well at least we can all agree that Tatiana Guzman is a very good VAR who is earning her salary tonight. She’s 3 for 3.
Oh I agree completely - it was a foolish challenge at best and he's supremely lucky. Still, it's a miss. Not an inconceivable miss or a "how can you call that?" miss, but a miss.
92' Another missed red at midfield when Robinson was fouled. High foot, no attempt whatsoever to play the ball. You have to issue a red there. 93' And ANOTHER missed red. Out of control, studs up, scissor on McKennie. Awfully lucky McKennie got away from that without a bad ankle injury. Should be 10 v 8.
I conceded that the Weah VC red was correct. I still think the foul on Turner is SFP. If a play like that is only a common foul, then I'm glad my kid's a midfielder and not a keeper. I'd meet my out of pocket max in hospital visits every year with open season on a keeper like that.
See MassachusettsRef's comments above. But I can attest first-hand that being a keeper is not an easy existence.
For what it's worth, Richards put a hand fully in the face of a Panamanian player after the second red card and it was 100% VC and something that should be reviewed if we actually used VAR, um, "objectively." But of course that's never getting reviewed--particularly when Barton and team got the yellow card for it. There is nothing about that tackle that is a red card. The most you can say is that the ball isn't there so your antennae should be up. But the mode of contact isn't bad. The actual force isn't bad. It's just a hard trip with an extended leg. It's both UB and SPA, but that doesn't turn it into SFP. This one definitely was borderline SFP, however. It's not so much a scissors, really. It's that he goes lunging airborne with his lead foot and then only makes contact from behind with the other foot. Hard to spot, though. And no way VAR is intervening there.
I think you and I are usually on the same page or in the same ballpark, but I can't stress how far off the reservation you are here. And, for that matter, on 90+2'. And with your initial assessment that the Weah RC might have been "negligible force." There's no way on earth that the foul on Turner is SFP. I think you might be looking at this match through more of a USMNT lens than a referee one.