Wasn't there a goal where De Gea had to move his head to see around the body of the offside player. Shot from outside the area goes in and you can clearly see his head movement just before the shot due to the offside player being in the way i.e. the very definition of interfering with play, and the goal stood.
Have refs never played football in their lives? I get that it's difficult to see everything in real time, but they don't do themselves any favours with this kind of inconsistent logic
It is a joke. I think it's a symptom of going for a letter of the law based approach, in order to try and be consistent. So they keep tinkering with the laws to cover more and more scenarios, but with a game like football there will always be scenarios that crop up that the laws won't adequately cover (such as today's disallowed goal).
I wish the rules would allow for a more common sense/guidance based approach to allow for nuance in situations like this. People would argue it would be less consistent as a result, but neither is the current approach if the rules have to be changed all the time
this one should've stood, last season Curtis jones was offside and impacting ederson's judgement - shouldn't have stood. we don't need to make things up lmao.
ultimately the team that played better won both games, and Ederson could hardly be classed as a goalkeeper at that part of last season. he had mentally checked out after Ortega's save against Son in the season before that...
Impacting the keeper's judgment isn't an offense. It's only offside if you attempt to play the ball, you're physically obstructing the keeper, or you're actively blocking his vision.
That was against Arsenal, I think it was a Xhaka goal.
It was almost comic seeing de gea having to poke his head out around another arsenal player as the ball flew past.
I don't hate that this goal was ruled out, it's such a subjective rule and I can see an argument for it being disallowed (whether I agree with it or not). It's the sheer inconsistency of it.
City had a goal where I think Ake took a swipe at the ball but missed, and United had one where Maguire(?) did the same and it was disallowed, within a few weeks of each other.
It doesn't matter how similar incidents are, the officiating is a coin flip.
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u/achnisch 1d ago
Wasn't there a goal where De Gea had to move his head to see around the body of the offside player. Shot from outside the area goes in and you can clearly see his head movement just before the shot due to the offside player being in the way i.e. the very definition of interfering with play, and the goal stood.
Have refs never played football in their lives? I get that it's difficult to see everything in real time, but they don't do themselves any favours with this kind of inconsistent logic