Sporting Kansas City players and coaches left CenturyLink Field on Thursday gutted and angry, believing poor officiating cost them a deserved win against the Seattle Sounders.
There is some truth in the sentiment, but emotion makes it easy to be blinded to all the realities of Sporting KC's 1-0 loss to the Sounders.
Did Nelson Valdez get away with being offside on the winning goal? Yes. Was Matt Besler extremely close to being onside on what would have been the opening goal of the match? Yes. Could referee Ismail Elfath have issued a second yellow card to Osvaldo Alonso for his sliding challenge on Benny Feilhaber?