At the very least, replays have been inconclusive.
Depending on who you ask, the Seattle Sounders were either lucky to escape Wednesday night’s game with a 1-1 tie or cursed for not leaving with a 2-1 victory.
At the core of the debate was a controversial no-goal that would have tied the score in the 84th minute. There’s no perfect angle of the play, but this is probably the best one:
Even slowed down it’s hard to see, but there’s clearly a bit of daylight between the ball and the goal. Of course, a ball is round and it’s entirely possible for the curvature to give an imprecise view — the entire ball has to be over the line, after all, not just part of it.