Soundoff: Which Refereeing Decision Was Worse? Germany’s Red Card or USA’s Disallowed Goal

We’re not even done with June 18th yet, and we already have what look to be two horrendous refereeing decisions that affected the outcome of two different World Cup games. My question: Which of them was worse? Earlier today we saw Alberto Undiano waving cards around in the Germany vs Serbia game. In the 37th minute he gave Germany’s Miroslav Klose a second yellow (which equals red) for this foul:

Chris nailed it in the Germany Serbia match review when he called it a “striker’s foul”, while going for the ball. That happened in the 37th minute, and a still confused Germany conceded in the 38th minute and went on to lose 1-0. Germany will also be without Klose for the now very important final group game vs Ghana.

In the next game we have referee Koman Coulibaly ruling out what looks to be a perfectly legitimate goal from Maurice Edu in the 85th minute:

I still can’t see anything wrong with that. There’s already a discussion started on the disallowed Edu goal – head over there and add your thoughts.

The sad thing is this tournament had been going along brilliantly, beginning with that very much correct offside call against Carlos Vela in the opening game. But seems June 18th is the day it all started to go a bit wrong.