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I agree it looks like she's onside. The camera angle sucks, but it makes me think that the offside may have been called on Dahlkemper, either for the ball (barely) touching her after being headed by Doniak, or possibly by interfering with an opponent by making a movement toward the ball after the cross.

⁠​⁠@@johnmcgimpsey1825That’s probably it, but it’s too bad there’s no quick explanation from the ref because the commentators and all of us are kinda lost lol

Yeah, give her the goal. It's onside. Nice assist also.

For me, it's nice to see Smith doing , trying to do a chip over pass as a winger at 2:26.

VAR will have evaluated it, and evidently determined that there was no error. Camera angle sucks, but pure speculation: I wonder if instead of Morgan, the offside was called on Dahlkemper. When Doniak heads it, Dahlkemper is goal-side of Sauerbrunn. If the ball then touched her head (I can't tell but its awfully close) it would be an offside offense. Alternatively, after the ball goes through and is crossed back, Dahlkemper moves toward the ball. If she was still in an offside position (again, I can't tell with the camera angle) then given the proximity to the keeper, that would be offside by interfering with an opponent.

Pause at 7:56. D'Aquila is behind _both_ the last defender and *the ball,* and both by an obvious margin. Can't tell from these highlights, but I suspect the VAR review was for some other issue. Fleming came back from an offside position to collect the ball and pass to Beckie, but that's not an offense because a San Diego player was the last to kick the ball.

Also the broadcast froze playback at the wrong time for Morgan's offside. They freeze frame when the ball is on the head of a player, but that's not the forward pass. The ball actually falls to the ground behind that player and then is kicked towards goal/Morgan at 3:06. She is visibly offside at that point, it's just that there's confusion about when the forward pass happened.

@@noodle_fc I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not lol

@@kjreames I am not. :p I think the refs did very well tonight. One of the top 3 best-officiated games I've seen this year

@@noodle_fc Portland fan then

VAR will always evaluate evey goal or disallowed goal. That there was no on-field review means that the VAR didn't determine that there was a clear and obvious error. The camera angle is horrible, but it makes more sense to me that the offside was actually called on Dahlkemper, not Morgan.