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The Caf's Ezza.
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnyeeeah of courseLooking forward to what Gerrard says.
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnyeeeah of courseLooking forward to what Gerrard says.
Ah I see, saw someone mention it was because he's behind the 'keeper. Thanks for clearing that up.That doesn't exist.
The rule is that the attacking player must be behind at least 2 opponents. Doesn't matter keeper or not. Usually you look at the last defender because the keeper is near the goal.
Bad referee and bad "expert". Goes hand in hand.Peter Walton can feck off. He has no idea what he's talking about. Struggling to get his words out.
Gerrard happy about that rule, thoughAbsolute nonsense rule. Only counts if a player deliberately gives the ball to the opposition player
What I’m extremely suspicious of, is that no other team would get such a blatantly wrong decision in their favor against Real Madrid of all teams. That just doesn’t add up for me and points to something other than VAR being poor.
Exactly!These officials bent. In a Liverpool game. Again.
Liverpool can never again say they don’t get decisions
I thought he did. Would be a clear goal if he didn't but I thought I saw him get a boot on it from a couple different angles.
Deliberate play implies they have to be a little psychics
Fecking hell.
Konate tackled the ball into Fabinho.
A really far cry from all of those years when English clubs were consistently properly fecked by referees in Europe when Spanish opposition was in front.The help they've had this season is unlike anything I've ever seen before.
If valverde doesn't touch the ball the goal stands.
Easy as.
Noup.
Valverde played it
But the pass wasn’t meant for Benzema hence the crazy deflections. I still can’t believe this, a defender slides in , wins the ball and it’s not deliberate.Unless they take it as a pass forward
Can't really blame UEFA forIt just sounds like UEFA haven’t organised the event that well to be fair.
It's bullshit, why is Fabinho sliding if he's not deliberately trying to play the ballThat deliberately played rule should be scrapped. Who the feck came up with that rule? It's as if the rule makers wanted to make the offside rule as complicated as possible.
Why in the feck would Fabinho deliberately play it to Benzema?
Exactly this. The argument would be that Valverde is the only phase of play that matters. But it's clearly the wrong interpretation of ANOTHER ambiguous rule, so will be fixed in the offseason.The intent of the rule as it applies here is that if a ball played by the attacking team deflects off a defender and then goes to another attacking player who was in an offside position when the attacking player played the ball, then it’s offside. But that’s not what happened here. The ball was played by a Liverpool player, not a Real player. No offside and the goal should have stood.
Don’t make me laugh the moment it bounces off Konate into Fabinho it stops being an offisde. Konate plays that to Fabinho who fails to control the ball how can this be an offisde???Apparently by the rules it’s the correct decision. Got away with one there.
2 players
The intent of the rule as it applies here is that if a ball played by the attacking team deflects off a defender and then goes to another attacking player who was in an offside position when the attacking player played the ball, then it’s offside. But that’s not what happened here. The ball was played by a Liverpool player, not a Real player. No offside and the goal should have stood.
Is Philip Walton on crack?
If the ball is played into the goalscorer's path by an opposition player, it's onside whether it was accidental or otherwise. The rule has always been that way, right?
The ref didn't give it, VAR did.
You're offside if there are not two players between you and the goal (those 2 players don't have to include the goalkeeper);
The decision is that when Valverde touched the ball, it hit Fabinho and went to Benzema who was offside.
The only debate is whether Fabinho deliberately gave the ball to Benzema, if involuntary then Benzema's offside.
But Liverpool are lucky.