Confirming what many of us suspected all along, the organization that overseas MLS referees said that Alan Kelly erred in disallowing Danny Leyva’s goal last Saturday.
In a review of the situation, Kelly can be heard telling video assistant referee Edvin Jurisevic that “on the field it looks like nothing.” He then requests to see the play at full speed before having it replayed frame-by-frame.
Immediately after the game, Kelly said he believed Justin Dhillon had been careless in leaving his foot in.
Greg Barkey, PRO’s manager of video review, says that the play was properly reviewed and cites how Zac MacMath’s potential injury complicates the situation but calls Dhillon’s contact “incidental.