The United States men’s national soccer team was eliminated from the 2024 Copa América after its 1-0 loss to Uruguay on Monday night in Kansas City.
Panama taking down Bolivia sealed the deal for the United States, who will exit this year’s tournament with a very difficult loss on home soil to fathom.
While blame will certainly be assessed to the U.S. coaching staff and players for flubbing this opportunity, Uruguay left backer Mathías Olivera’s goal came under lots of scrutiny from USMNT fans.
The score in question gave Uruguay the lone point of the match, but it sure looked like two players, including Olivera, were clearly offside on the replay.
URUGUAY TAKES THE LEAD 😱😳
Just seconds after Bolivia tied the game vs Panama, Uruguay scores and the USMNT is back out of Copa América 2024 pic.twitter.com/0IZfEwPzJw
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 2, 2024
The VAR look at the play didn’t help the United States, as the officials maintained after review that the goal was good and no offside had occurred. How they assessed the VAR angle was a bit strange to say the least.
This was somehow not ruled offside after review 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Oh2Xn9Z7bK
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 2, 2024
The VAR review of the Uruguay goal ruled this as onside 🎥🧐 pic.twitter.com/awOZVDqp6a
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 2, 2024
A look at the VAR angle of the Uruguay goal vs the USMNT 🧐🤔 pic.twitter.com/VnOEe3jQvn
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 2, 2024
This image just shows how truly egregious a missed call it was for the officiating crew. It’s just hard to understand the rationale behind the decision.
Um, yea, I have that Uruguay goal as being close to 1 foot offside. #CopaAmerica #USMNT pic.twitter.com/Bwwl1u5Sj7
— SoccerPhotogrammetry, A Nice Gentleman & nerd (@OffsideModeling) July 2, 2024
On a night where some of the game was broadcast with a bad camera view, this Uruguay goal stung even worse for the U.S.
United States fans were absolutely livid about the no-call, one that had a definite impact in sending the team home from this year’s Copa América.
— AO (@AmericanOutlaws) July 2, 2024
I AM IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE. UN. REAL. https://t.co/sLI0UJYeqR
— Joel Delgado (@JoelMDelgado) July 2, 2024
Scrap literally all video assisted review in all sports forever. If you can ignore video evidence to rig the result however you want in the first place, at least give the illusion that it's a missed call. https://t.co/6Q2BfNsu7v
— On LTIR in Vegas Kyle (@K_Nick_97) July 2, 2024
What are we doing here? What possibly could be the explanation that this isn’t offsides? It’s cut and dry.
What an embarrassment for @CopaAmerica https://t.co/9ofnXNpKft
— Jared Schwartz (@jschwartz115) July 2, 2024
It genuinely could not have been more clearly offside. #USMNT #CopaAmerica https://t.co/OAThRfnyiz
— Jimmy Mack (@jcmack03) July 2, 2024
look I’m not normally one to blame a loss on a ref bc there’s normally a lot that happens in 90 minutes. But this has undoubtedly been a joke from start to finish from this ref https://t.co/1OBIBUTsg5
— ✪ kate ⍟ (@FleurySkjei) July 2, 2024
This is not good officiating. This is super bad officiating. I just can't fathom it https://t.co/c3TwlU616y
— Chelsea Hensley (@ChelseaBigBang) July 2, 2024
Two Uruguay 🇺🇾 players in offside positions on the header shot.
Unbelievable. #USMNT https://t.co/Dw9e6ocKpP
— Corey Clayton (@CoreyClayton) July 2, 2024
Uhhhh ok https://t.co/HeDbQXCNsU
— 🇧🇴 Sickos Committee 🇧🇴 (@SickosCommittee) July 2, 2024
This would be ruled as no goal at the Euros for sure. #USMNT https://t.co/GLDmxFBuao
— Orri Benatar (@obenatar512) July 2, 2024
This was absolutely offside. Just when you think officiating can’t get any worse. https://t.co/EwLgfT6HdV
— Brendan Wilhide (@BrendanWilhide) July 2, 2024
Someone gotta explain this to me. This is why we have VAR https://t.co/SjRlPHuNSi
— DJ Jenkins (@DJJenkins) July 2, 2024
