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Panama Newspaper Goes Crazy After Mexico Win Semi with Controversial Penalty

Bleacher Report | July 23, 2015

Related Topics: Mexico national football team, Panama national football team, Mark Geiger, Andrés Guardado, Oribe Peralta

Penalty #2 for Mexico tonight. 3 straight PK goals in this #GoldCup. #MEXvPAN pic.twitter.com/G4LJ0VKuSq

— Ben Jata (@Ben_Jata) July 23, 2015

Panamanian newspaper Critica produced an expletive-laden front page after Mexico were awarded two highly controversial penalties in the countries' CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-final in Atlanta.

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Panamanian daily @CriticaPa clearly not happy with referee Mark Geiger's performance in last nights #GoldCup game pic.twitter.com/FMMOzWSliS

— AS English (@English_AS) July 23, 2015

Roman Torres gave Panama an early second half lead, but the controversy started when American referee Mark Geiger adjudged that Torres had handled when he fell on the ball in the box, Andres Guardado drawing the sides level with the resulting penalty.

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