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Yeah. That's two goals in two games disallowed by two different referees on bad calls. Either one of those goals could have been the game winner and advanced the US to the next round. It's a conspiracy, I'm telling you! (j/k)
Seriously, though, if the United States team ends up going home because that legitimate goal was disallowed by a bad referee call, I'm going to be seriously pissed.
And FIFA's stated policy on the matter is that if a call is close, the referee is supposed to favor the attacker, sort of like the tie goes to the base runner rule in baseball. The two calls against the U.S. definitely did not adhere to that philosophy.
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