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Original publish date: July 19, 2017

Petke says he’s planning to appeal Beckerman red card

The worst refereeing decision on the night is likely to get an appeal.

Matt Montgomery

Kyle Beckerman was shown a red card during RSL’s 4-1 win over Portland Timbers for, well, very close to nothing.

Unsurprisingly, Mike Petke indicated in his post-match press conference that the club will likely be appealing Baldomero Toledo’s judgment, and rightly so.

Here — check out the red card here.

It’s entirely clear why Fanendo Adi is handed a red card — he barrels into Beckerman (violent conduct, certainly) and continued the confrontation on the ground. To Beckerman’s credit, the fiery captain’s response was to look at the referee and question the incident — not exactly red card material.

And there’s bipartisan agreement on this one, too:

Needless to say, there’s a very strong chance this one is appealed, unless Beckerman said something ridiculous to the referee. And given that, there’s a very strong chance any appeal will be successful. For once, things might actually go our way on this one.