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Red card for Balogun? No problem! The Junkies break down USA’s 2-0 win over Bosnia in the Round of 32.
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00:00I mean, we have to address Valdez's outfit today.
00:03He's dressed as George Washington.
00:05I mean, he's got a great...
00:07His costume is very elaborate.
00:09I mean, he looks like he just strode off the battlefield
00:14back in the 1700s.
00:15And he was dressed like that?
00:16Were you dressed like that last night?
00:18No, there's no chance I was going to wear this at Hyde.
00:20I would have been so sweaty.
00:22But you did go to Hyde.
00:23Yes, I did go to Hyde for the game.
00:24It was an awesome experience once again.
00:26What time did you get there?
00:28I got there at 7.30.
00:30All right, so right before the game.
00:31Yep.
00:32Good crowd.
00:33Oh, my God.
00:33Massive crowd.
00:34I'm sure all the bars were packed.
00:37I don't know.
00:37If you're not at Hyde or anywhere else watching the games,
00:40it's just so much fun.
00:42You're not doing it right.
00:43You're not doing it right.
00:44You got to go experience hanging out with other Patriots.
00:48The game was on in the poker room,
00:49and obviously people are paying attention primarily to poker,
00:52but they're also paying attention to the U.S.
00:55giving the business to Bosnia and advancing to the round of 16.
00:59Right, so I'm wearing, I'm dressed as George Washington today
01:02because not only is it America 250 weekend,
01:06but we gave the boot to Bosnia.
01:08Just gave them the absolute business.
01:10Yes, so I'm feeling extra patriotic today.
01:12Feeling patriotic.
01:13How crazy did Hyde get when Balgan scored at the end of the first half?
01:18Oh, Matt, I mean, people were jumping up and down.
01:21It was crazy.
01:22You're high-fiving strangers.
01:23People are screaming.
01:25Well, they were probably doing that the first time he scored,
01:27but then it was an offside.
01:28It was an offside.
01:28People are chanting, USA, USA.
01:32Mm-hmm.
01:32Fantastic.
01:33Did you start a new chant because you were upset about the chants?
01:37What do you mean?
01:38You're upset at the I believe we can win and that sort of thing.
01:41I said, did you find something new?
01:43Did you start something new?
01:44No.
01:45You think he's going to develop a new chant?
01:46No.
01:47USA's good enough.
01:48Did you have the, didn't you want us to possibly do the Pledge of Allegiance
01:53because we're so close to July 4th?
01:55Did you do that in the middle of the bar?
01:57I stood up and took my hat off for the National Anthem.
02:01You know what?
02:02I considered doing that, but I think I was in the middle of my hand,
02:05so I just didn't.
02:06Well, poker could.
02:07I didn't do it.
02:07Poker could wait, Cakes, for this country.
02:09I guess.
02:10I guess.
02:10I saw them standing and saluting the flag before the game started,
02:14but I wasn't very patriotic.
02:17I wasn't wearing any red, wire, or blue yesterday either,
02:20so I'm trying to make up for it by wearing my red Wizards hoodie today,
02:25pre-July 4th.
02:26But all the games were great yesterday.
02:28I mean, England scored late.
02:30Harry Kane, he's just a baller.
02:32Yeah.
02:32Who's he played for internationally?
02:35Drabby, soccer drabby.
02:37Harry Kane, he plays for Bayern Munich.
02:38He played for Tottenham for a long time.
02:40How much money does he make?
02:41Oh, he's got to be making tens of millions of dollars, I would guess.
02:45Yeah, so that was fun.
02:47Congo scored early in that game to take the lead.
02:50I took England.
02:51I had Congo in our pool.
02:52By the way, I had Congo, Senegal, Bosnia.
02:55Okay, but none of those teams expected it to really contain a match.
02:58No, but Congo had a lead.
03:01Senegal had a huge lead with about five minutes left.
03:04I had a legit chance.
03:04If you're from Senegal, you're a heartbroken.
03:07I mean, I had a legit chance to advance in a couple of those games.
03:09Yeah, you're distraught.
03:10Yeah, just luck of the bish.
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03:25So the United States advances.
03:27They will play in Seattle.
03:29They will take on Belgium because they had a remarkable comeback.
03:32But lucky Belgium.
03:33Against Senegal.
03:34By the way, soccer drab, can you explain Belgium's uniforms to me?
03:39I know their nickname are the Red Devils, and they are wearing some sort of pastel-y uniform
03:44that I just, like if you said, what team is this, I would have said, I don't have any chance
03:49of telling you what team that is.
03:50Yeah, I don't know the reason behind it.
03:52So we will be facing Belgium, and the real problem with that is no Balogun for that game
03:59because he gets red-carded against Bosnia.
04:02He's been the leading goal scorer for the Americans.
04:05I think they could still win without him, but that is a huge hit.
04:09It's a huge dagger for the United States.
04:11And whatever he's talking about is the apparent double standard that Messi did this earlier in the tournament.
04:19Right.
04:19Didn't even get a card.
04:21Balogun does it.
04:22Looks unintentional.
04:24He did spike the guy in the calf.
04:26Yeah.
04:27And the guy rolled his ankle.
04:28Yeah.
04:29But there was no malice.
04:31The referee didn't card him at the time.
04:33I mean, and he goes to the VAR.
04:35It appeared he was going for the ball.
04:37Like, the ball was kind of close to the spot where he hit him on his leg.
04:39Yeah.
04:40I mean, if you're going to give a card, maybe give a yellow card, but a red card?
04:44There's no way someone.
04:45In the United States?
04:46There's no way someone should get suspended for a game for something unintentional.
04:53Totally agree.
04:53That's so stupid.
04:54And, like, if you want to throw him out of that game because you feel like it's egregious, okay, whatever.
05:00He misses, like, the next.
05:01He shouldn't have been thrown out of the game.
05:02He shouldn't have been thrown out, but if that's the case, throw him out for that game.
05:06And don't take him out of the next game.
05:08That's outrageous.
05:09And you can't even appeal.
05:11You can't even appeal it.
05:12Like you said, Messi did the same thing against Algeria.
05:15Exact same thing, which was more intentional.
05:18Didn't even get a yellow card.
05:19But they're not going to kick Messi out.
05:21They're not going to red card God out.
05:22I got you.
05:23That's the problem.
05:24But, like, Cake said, this is the United States team in the United States.
05:28Right.
05:29Like, we can't get a little bit of home cooking in our own country.
05:35Now, if this happened in, say, Germany's the host country or Qatar or whatever, and we get shafted with a
05:42call, you might be like, okay, maybe.
05:46In the United States?
05:47In California?
05:48You're going to give that guy a red card?
05:49That's an outrage.
05:50The one thing I'll say about it.
05:52Don't be upset about these.
05:53The one thing I'll say about it is the announcer, the female announcer, right when it happens, said this could
06:01be a red card.
06:02Okay.
06:02That's great.
06:03That's because she knows the rules.
06:04That's fine.
06:05The rule is stupid.
06:06I don't care.
06:07Okay, but it is the rule.
06:08I don't care that she pointed out that this could be red card worthy, whatever.
06:14I don't care.
06:16That's an injustice to an American hero.
06:19By the way, you want home cooking, and that's fair.
06:22It's fine.
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06:38Was it a fair red card?
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06:48The Americans end up winning 2-0.
06:51Kudos to the Americans for actually scoring down a man.
06:54Because you can see almost immediately the difference.
06:58When it was 11-on-11, the United States dominated the play.
07:02They had the ball.
07:03I don't know the percentage.
07:04I would say 75% of the time.
07:06They had more shots on goal, more attacks.
07:09And then when it became 11-on-10, Bosnia had the control of the ball.
07:15And kudos to the defense because they were blocking a ton of shots.
07:19And then they countered a couple times.
07:22And sure enough, they get a chance on a free kick.
07:25And Malik Tillman delivers.
07:27That was a Messi-like free kick.
07:29Oh, it was an amazing shot.
07:30Gets it over the wall.
07:30That was a great, yeah.
07:31Because you have to be able to, you'll see guys blast it, especially when you're closer to the 18.
07:36You'll see guys blast it over.
07:39It's really hard to get it over the wall and dip it down.
07:42I know.
07:42I don't know how those guys do that.
07:43With a top spin.
07:44Remarkable skill.
07:45Like, it was dying as it went over the heads of the guys at the wall.
07:50Like, it was just a perfectly executed free kick by him.
07:53Is Tillman British?
07:57So, I was taken aback.
07:59He sounded like he is.
08:00No, he's American.
08:01He sounded like he had a British accent.
08:03He's an American, my friend.
08:03I looked him up afterwards.
08:05Yeah.
08:06I think he was born in Germany.
08:09American father.
08:10And then he played in the German Academy.
08:14I think he could have played for Germany, but he chose to play for the Americans.
08:18There you go.
08:18But I kind of detected a British accent.
08:20Oh, okay.
08:20All right.
08:21So, I don't know if he spent some time over there, too.
08:23That's all right.
08:24He's wearing our colors.
08:25Or maybe it was his German accent.
08:26I don't know.
08:27No, but 2-0 win.
08:30But the story is Balogun.
08:32And you can go on our social media if you haven't seen it.
08:36Messi committed the exact same foul earlier in the tournament and did not even receive a card.
08:43Tillman is a dual national of the U.S. and Germany.
08:46Gotcha.
08:47Because his father is an American.
08:48His mother is German.
08:49I mean, Messi did the exact same thing and didn't even get a yellow card.
08:52And I understand they're not going to give Messi a red card.
08:55Yeah.
08:56But Balogun shouldn't get – you should not get ejected from a game and miss a game for something that's
09:01not intentional.
09:01If he had purposely kicked his knee or kicked him in the head, all right, one thing.
09:06Most other sports, that's the way it goes.
09:08But not if it's unintentional.
09:10The VAR system – I get why we have replay in sports, but it is frustrating.
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09:22You've had offsides called where teams score, they celebrate, and the guy's got like a toe over the line.
09:29Yeah.
09:31We talked about it.
09:32Balogun scored, and they took that away from an offsides.
09:36It looked like an offsides, but it wasn't a massive offsides.
09:40Okay.
09:41And then the red card situation.
09:44So if you're a by-the-book guy who says everything has to be strictly by-the-book, okay.
09:49They made the right calls.
09:51But I heard one of these guys who said referees are supposed to take into consideration three different things.
09:59And the third thing was malice.
10:01Did it look like that was a malicious attack?
10:04No.
10:05It didn't look like a malicious attack.
10:06No.
10:06It looked like an unintentional attack.
10:08He was going for the ball.
10:09During the course of play, was it slightly aggressive?
10:13Maybe.
10:14He was going for the ball.
10:14Did it injure the guy?
10:15Yeah, but he was going for the ball.
10:18Like Jason said, if he just intentionally kicked him in the leg and the ball wasn't anywhere close, give him
10:23a red card.
10:24But it was during the course of action of a soccer play and he just went against Balogun and the
10:31U.S.
10:32And now the U.S. is going to pay for it by not having him against Belgium.
10:36Yeah.
10:36Our most effective scorer is going to miss the game in Seattle against Belgium.
10:41JP, it's a big loss.
10:42It's a huge loss.
10:43It's a big loss.
10:43It's a big loss.
10:44I guess they're going to play Pepe up top.
10:46Is it Pepe?
10:47Whatever that is.
10:48I don't know who that is.
10:48Yeah, I mean, I guess.
10:50He came in at the end of the game.
10:51It's a huge loss and they're going to play Belgium.
10:53By the way, Belgium and Senegal, another stupid call by the refs.
10:57I don't understand the sport.
10:58I don't understand the sport.
10:59Which one?
11:00The very end when they gave Belgium the win on the free kick.
11:03I thought it was a trip.
11:05You don't think he got tripped?
11:06I don't think you should be able to get a free kick off of that in a World Cup game.
11:10Yeah.
11:11I'm sorry, not a free kick, a penalty kick.
11:13Yeah.
11:13Free kick, different story.
11:14Yeah, but it was a penalty inside the box.
11:16I don't think that's a stupid rule.
11:18I think the rule is there because let's say,
11:21the defender.
11:22You're giving the guy a win.
11:24The defender doesn't trip him.
11:25That guy's likely to score.
11:26I don't think it was an intentional trip.
11:28It doesn't matter if it's intentional.
11:30You shouldn't be able to just give him the game on one foul.
11:34That's a stupid call.
11:35I'm sorry.
11:36Yeah, but if you get tripped inside the box.
11:40I don't think he was inside the box.
11:42Yeah, it was inside the box.
11:43That's why he got a penalty kick.
11:44It looked like he was outside the box.
11:46It looked like he was outside the box.
11:47I thought.
11:49Even if it was inside the box.
11:50It's a stupid rule.
11:52Sometimes they're reluctant to call it.
11:53You're giving them the game.
11:54But here's the thing about the intent, right?
11:57Let's say you're dribbling at me, Jason.
11:58Yeah.
11:59All right?
11:59And you make a move.
12:00And I stick my leg out.
12:02He's trying to make a play.
12:02And I trip you over it.
12:03He's trying to make a play for the ball.
12:05I may have tried.
12:05I'm trying to make a play for the ball.
12:07But I trip you.
12:09It's a penalty.
12:09It's a foot game.
12:11It's a foot slash leg game.
12:12Going for the ball.
12:13I mean, when you're playing.
12:15Give him a free kick, not a penalty kick.
12:17When you're playing basketball.
12:19You're giving.
12:19Yeah.
12:19And somebody drives on you.
12:21And tries to dunk in your face.
12:24And you go up to try and shot block him.
12:27Yep.
12:28But instead of getting the ball, you're going for the ball.
12:30I know.
12:31You get free throws.
12:31You get all of his arms.
12:32It doesn't matter if you're going for the ball.
12:34It's stupid.
12:35It's a stupid rule that you're giving them the game because of that.
12:38Well.
12:38I don't think it was a foul at all.
12:41I thought it was a dicey call.
12:42If it's a foul, they're well inside.
12:44The penalty box.
12:45They're almost six yards out.
12:46Yeah.
12:47But Tillman comes from behind him when he's already sliding.
12:50He steps in front of the leg kick.
12:53That, to me, was not a penalty at all.
12:55I'd have to go back and look at that.
12:56It's not a clear penalty.
12:57When I was watching it live, I didn't think there was a penalty.
12:58Are you talking about the Belgium game now?
13:00Yeah.
13:00Yeah, the Belgium-Sennical game.
13:02That's what he's yelling about.
13:03Yeah.
13:04Yeah, they gave him the game.
13:06Now, Senegal choked it away given the 2-0 lead up in the last five minutes, but I didn't
13:12think they should have called that.
13:13Would you care as much if you didn't have Senegal in the World Cup pool?
13:17No.
13:17I mean, I expected them to lose anyway, but I just thought it was a horrible call.
13:22All right.
13:23Let's go to Carlos.
13:23He's calling in from Severna Park.
13:25He wants to weigh in on the Balogun foul and red card.
13:29What's up, Carlos?
13:30You're on with the Junk's.
13:31Good morning, guys.
13:32I really don't think it was a favorite card, and it sucks that they can't appeal it.
13:36I called in thinking that they were going to appeal it, and I take work off just to watch
13:42World Cup games and all, and I didn't even know that rule.
13:46But yeah, it's completely unfair.
13:49It sucks.
13:49And your point with, like, all these bogus calls from the referee, it's been outrageous.
13:55You know, I'm American-oriented, so I'm so salty that, you know, we got eliminated by
13:59Mexico.
13:59The first call should have been outside miles.
14:02He was miles outside.
14:04Yeah, the refs are doing that great of a job making these calls, especially when it comes
14:10to the World Cup, being in the playoffs.
14:12But yeah, that's my take on it.
14:14All right.
14:14Thanks, Carlos.
14:15Appreciate the call.
14:15Our poll of the day, 92% say no, it was not a fair red card.
14:20You're conducting this poll in the United States of America, JP.
14:23I'm shocked it's not 100% to 0%.
14:26Well, you might have some soccer purists who say it's a red card-worthy play.
14:32I think a yellow card, everybody would have been okay with the yellow card.
14:35I would have been so happy with the yellow card.
14:37Because I think that they card it because they don't want guys coming from behind, right,
14:42to go for balls.
14:43Understood.
14:43So it's not necessarily, even if you're going for the ball, they're not sweating the intent.
14:48I'm okay with the yellow card.
14:49I'm fine with that.
14:50If a guy slide tackles somebody from behind, and it's aggressive, and it's dirty, and the
14:54ball is five to seven yards clear of the guy that he's going after, red card him all
14:59day long.
15:00But Balligan was making a play on the ball.
15:02The guy basically had the ball, and his foot just went in the wrong spot.
15:07That should not be a red card.
15:08The other part of the equation is the United States was kind of getting mauled in the first
15:13half.
15:13Right.
15:13If you're watching what Bosnia was doing to the American players, they're pulling jerseys.
15:19Yeah, because they're not as talented.
15:22They knew they were outmatched.
15:23They were the cheapest team I've ever seen in my life.
15:26Right.
15:26They had to.
15:27I know nothing.
15:27They tried to muck it up.
15:29I don't either.
15:29But you know what I do know?
15:30Well, those guys are still flying back to Bosnia right now, as we speak.
15:34They're probably over Spain at this point.
15:37They're just waiting to get home.
15:39They're playing soccer like I played hoops in high school when I had to go guard some
15:42fast dude.
15:43Get physical.
15:44Just literally put my hand on him and don't let him run past me.
15:47You're trying to muck it up.
15:48You're trying to slow the game down.
15:49I know what he's doing.
15:51He's an old, slow, white dude.
15:53I don't know.
15:54It's been awesome.
15:55My whole family was watching the game.
15:57I told my kid, you can stay up to watch the game.
16:00Dylan came over.
16:01He hasn't watched soccer his whole life.
16:03He's gotten into it.
16:04The World Cup has really been awesome.
16:06Again, they should do it every four years.
16:08You can still throw in Mexico and Canada, but right in this time zone.
16:12United States, Mexico, Canada.
16:14This is the replay of the Belgium-Senegal play.
16:17He's outside that box.
16:21Isn't that the six?
16:22That's the six, Jason.
16:23What's the six?
16:24What the hell is the six?
16:25That's the goalie line, right?
16:26See the other box?
16:27So the other box.
16:28It's inside the 18.
16:29All right, that's fine.
16:30I was wrong.
16:30I don't know the rule on that.
16:31But look, he's making the move first.
16:33The guy from Senegal is making the move at the ball first.
16:36This other guy from Belgium is coming behind him.
16:39How can this be a penalty to give them the game?
16:42All right, that is a terrible call.
16:45He made the first move for the ball.
16:48Not the guy from Belgium.
16:49You're right.
16:50I agree 100%.
16:50That's a horrible call.
16:52And to give them a penalty kick for that?
16:54Those guys should be...
16:56Arrested.
16:57No, they should be...
16:58Well, certainly not arrested.
16:59They should be thrown out of the country.
17:02Get out.
17:04All of those refs should be thrown out of the country.
17:06That's all right.
17:06I thought the...
17:07You think I would argue with that?
17:08This is not worthy of a free kick.
17:09I thought the guy from Senegal caught the guy from Belgium's foot.
17:14That's the way that I saw it.
17:15But I'll be honest.
17:16He made the first move to the ball.
17:17I was at a swim meet at the time watching that on my little phone.
17:21Yeah.
17:21All right?
17:22So to me, it looked like a foul.
17:24Yeah.
17:25And they went to the VAR for that, right?
17:28Yeah.
17:28It was a bad call.
17:29So they went to the video assist.
17:30It's the same thing.
17:31And the video assist saw a foul.
17:33Yeah.
17:33It's just a stupid rule.
17:35It's a flaw in the sport.
17:38That's what it is.
17:38It's a flaw.
17:39I understand why they go to the video.
17:41They did the same thing with Balogun.
17:42It's a stupid rule in the sport.
17:44I'm sorry.
17:45It just is.
17:46The guy from Senegal went for the ball first.
17:48Yeah.
17:49The guy from Belgium comes behind him and kind of trips over the guy from Senegal.
17:53Yeah.
17:54He trips over him.
17:55He wasn't intentionally tripped.
17:56It should not be a penalty kick.
17:57They gave him the game for that.
17:59I mean, that's the dumbest rule I've ever seen.
18:01Mike Barr and I were stuffing Parker House rolls in our face and didn't see it.
18:04So I'll have to take your word for it at that point.
18:07It's so obvious.
18:08He's going for the ball first.
18:09He's in front of the guy from Belgium.
18:11In front of him.
18:13How do you give them the game?
18:14This is an outrage.
18:15Oh, my God.
18:16You know what?
18:17I'm wrong.
18:18I'm wrong.
18:19Every four years.
18:19I don't need the World Cup every two years.
18:21How about every...
18:21You know what?
18:22Let's make it every eight years.
18:23Every ten.
18:23You're so outraged.
18:24Every ten.
18:24How about never again?
18:26That is the worst call I've ever seen.
18:28I like how you've turned on a dime on your World Cup.
18:31Oh, my God.
18:32It'll be watching three games today.
18:34This is amazing.
18:35All right.
18:36Don't forget, coming up a bit later, we'll be joined by one of the newest Washington Capitals in town.
18:41Alex Tuck scheduled to join us coming up at 845 right here on The Junk's.
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