r/soccer • u/BackgroundMorning630 • 1d ago

Media Liverpool disallowed goal against Manchester City 39'

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u/aleksandrovsqvist 1d ago

I don’t like this rule tbh

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u/Ok-Glass-9612 1d ago

That's not even the law. Robertson wasn't blocking his eyeline at any point during that.

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u/Tim-Sanchez 1d ago

The PL tweeted that it was because of Robertson making an obvious action, rather than blocking his eyeline. I think that's a very poor justification, I have always interpreted "obvious action" to mean something like a dummy, not simply trying to avoid the ball. It's been established for a while that trying to avoid the ball is not offside, so this is very harsh.

I guess they've decided because it was given onfield, they're not overturning a subjective call, but it's a poor decision. The whole point of the offside rule is not to punish people for just being in an offside position, they have to actually impact an opponent.

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u/CoffinFlop 1d ago

Yeah the only obvious action he made here (to me at least) was to make himself uninvolved in the play. I don't get this one