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Nelson Valdez was probably offside, but so was Matt Besler

Sporting Kansas City was feeling pretty hard done by the officials after Thursday’s 1-0 loss. It’s hard to blame them. Osvaldo Alonso could have easily seen a second yellow card for his tackle on Benny Feilhaber and Nelson Valdez probably was offside on his game-winning goal.

Still working on Besler offside, but Valdez off by about 1-2'. pic.twitter.com/wBSc86yTtA

— SoccerPhotogrammetry (@OffsideModeling) October 28, 2016

But I think Peter Vermes may have been overreaching just a tad when he went on this rant:

“Unfortunately the game was one in which we scored and our guy was onsides, they scored and their guy was offsides,” Vermes said.