{"id":8526,"date":"2024-06-28T00:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T00:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/28\/usmnts-timothy-weah-issued-red-card-after-striking-panama-player-in-head\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T00:21:46","slug":"usmnts-timothy-weah-issued-red-card-after-striking-panama-player-in-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/28\/usmnts-timothy-weah-issued-red-card-after-striking-panama-player-in-head\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT’s Timothy Weah issued red card after striking Panama player in head"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States<\/a> will play the rest of their second group stage game in Copa Am\u00e9rica against Panama with just 10 men after Timothy Weah was sent off with a red card early in the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weah received a direct red card after he appeared to strike a Panamanian player<\/a> in the back of the head away from the ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weah initially received a yellow card for the incident, but after VAR review, it was wiped away and the red card came out of the referee’s pocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Weah didn’t look at the referee at the moment of his red card, simply walking off the pitch and taking off his jersey out of frustration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weah’s red card is the third in this Copa Am\u00e9rica<\/a> thus far.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The United States will be down one man for the remainder of the match, though it didn’t seem to bother them initially.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Falorin Balogun scored despite Panama having the man-advantage. Antonee Robinson stole a pass in the opponent’s defensive area, and after a give-and-go situation, Balogun ripped it with his left boot to the right post, smacking it off the metal and finding the back of the net for the 1-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Panama would strike right back as Cesar Blackman scored his first international goal of his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Blackman appeared to be thwarted on a shooting chance by U.S. keeper Matt Turner, but he saw the ball back at his feet. He took a rip around U.S. defenders, and it turned out to be perfect as the ball was out of Turner\u2019s diving reach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first half ended 1-1, though Team USA had a goal called off because VAR showed U.S. defender Tim Ream just offside after a free kick from Christian Pulisic. Weston McKennie scored, but Ream affected the play, so it was called back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As things stand, a draw would have the U.S. leaving Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta with one point following their three-point victory over Bolivia in their opening match.<\/p>\n

But if what happened in the first half is indicative of what we could see in the second, this match could have some thrilling play in the next 45 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The United States will play the rest of their second group stage game in Copa Am\u00e9rica against Panama with just 10 men after Timothy Weah was sent off with a red card early in the first half.\u00a0 Weah received a direct red card after he appeared to strike a Panamanian player in the back of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hubroundup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}