mdenny wrote:28 posts and noone's mentioned it was out of bounds yet
You know the ball has to completely cross the line? Probably no video shows it did.
Also I will share something from the game as I was just a few rows up from it. The ref came by to talk to the assistant and you could see the assistant was confident it was not out. The linesman had a very good placement I thought.
Even more, the ref - sneaky at that - clearly waited, and looked at the replay on the big screen behind the Panamanian goal, and showed the defender who was arguing with him the ball was not out. I saw that sequence live it may not be on TV as this happened while the boys were celebrating. It was only after that, after seeing the replay on TV from the good angle, when the ref decided the goal is valid. That is why I call him sneaky as he is not supposed to make the decision based on the TV.
I was scared he may overturn it as from my angle I could not tell if the ball was actually in or out in the live action.