The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) has issued a one-paragraph response to the Football Federations of Costa Rica and Panama in light of a joint request for a review of two contentious matches in the 2015 Gold Cup.

The request for review issued by Costa Rica is related to the quarterfinals match against the National Football Team of Mexico. On that match, the Mexican team was awarded a dubious penalty kick in the final minute of overtime. The score was tied 0 – 0 and the match seemed to be headed for a penalty kick shootout for the purpose of advancing to the semifinals; alas, a phantom foul allowed Mexican star player Andres Guardado to score.

The request for review issued by Panama is related to the semifinals match against the National Football Team of Mexico, which will go down in history as the ugliest and most convoluted example of disastrous refereeing. As previously reported by The Costa Rica Star:

In the second half, Roman Torres of Panama scored a header off a corner kick to open the scoreboard. Mexico retaliated with a few attacks that went nowhere. The match was not even physical at that point; Panama parked the bus and waited for the 90th minute, which is when the worst of the match arrived: an alleged handball by Mr. Torres inside the box, which only Mr. Geiger saw and called a penalty kick, which was scored by Andres Guardado.

[at] the 104-minute mark, Javier Orozco, who had been invisible since he entered the match off a substitution, got tangled feet and fell inside the box during an attack against Panama. The frustration with Mr. Geiger was palpable in the entire stadium as he called another penalty kick in favor of Mexico, which Mr. Guardado once again executed.

The response from CONCACAF is as follows:

CONCACAF has received the official requests from the Panamanian Football Federation and Costa Rican Football Federation and will review them carefully. The confederation takes these claims extremely seriously and will look into them immediately. As a first step toward addressing the request, this matter has been added to the agenda of tomorrow’s CONCACAF Executive Committee meeting for discussion.

On Saturday morning, an Associated Press report published by Fox Sports indicated that:

Referee Mark Geiger ”accepted that officiating errors had been made” and they ”impacted the outcome,” CONCACAF President Alfredo Hawit said in a statement. Hawit added that ”such human errors are part of the game.”

The investigation is expected to continue next week.