For a moment, with just one minute and 45 seconds of action, Ecuador's destiny could have been marked by a failure by North American referee Tori Penso and her VAR partner Joe Dickerson, who accepted the goal by Leroy Sané of Germany without taking into account a foul by Aleksandar Pavlović on Pedro Vite.

This serious omission or failure of communication between both whistlers made the Ecuadorians tremble with a goal that fortunately the South Americans were able to overcome, but which otherwise would have set a very negative precedent in the careers of the two American whistlers.

The reality is that the team led by Argentine Sebastián Beccacece came to the duel with Germany at a critical moment after having lost to the Ivory Coast and tied with Curacao, after missing nearly fourteen scoring opportunities.

Without a doubt, a dramatic scenario because on the horizon of Ecuador the World Cup failure was drawn, regardless of having placed as the second national squad in the World Cup qualifying round in South America.

The reality is that after seven minutes of play it seemed that the Ecuadorians would be hardened by a goal that should never have counted and that had coach Beccacece on the bench like a wounded lion, going from one side to the other, not believing that they were leaving the World Cup through the back door due to a serious refereeing sin.

Afterwards, Ecuador regained its color with the tie achieved before ten minutes by Nilson Angulo and which left the table set for Ecuador to go in search of a distressing victory that was very close to being ruined by another decision by Penso.

Afterwards, things were handed to the Ecuadorians and the sin of the whistler Penso seemed a distant reference with the Silver goal that left behind the failures against Curacao to put on the mantle of hero regardless of the fact that everything was about to be ruined, but that now only remained as a simple anecdote.

The question that will remain in the air

But beyond everything that the failure of communication between Tori Penso and Joe Dickerson brought with it, the question that will remain in the air is why Dickerson did not call his partner and force her to review Pavlovic's action with an iron and that it should have merited dangerous play, cutting off any chance of Leroy Sané's goal, but when judgment and vision are abused, this type of thing usually happens and that he was on the verge of sending Ecuador back home in a failure the size of the world.