No fewer than four Impact players went into referee Ramy Touchan’s notebook in a 16 minute spell as yesterday’s game reached its conclusion.
He’d already booked three from the visitors. The game was well-contested but never dirty or ill-tempered. It certainly didn’t ‘feel’ like a seven-card game.
A case could potentially be made for six of the seven cautions to be fair, although you’d wonder why the initial foul on Piatti went unsanctioned, prompting him to lose the rag and produce the over-zealous challenge that brought his yellow.
But it’s hard not to take issue with the caution presented to unlucky Shamit Shome in the 82nd minute.