I’m getting more and more convinced that the sport needs to revolutionize the way it handles fouls in the box. They need to introduce an in-between call so that it’s not either a penalty or nothing. Maybe it’s a “penalty” kick taken from the edge of the box... I don’t know.
The fact that teams are now being rewarded free goals on situations where they weren’t even in a goal scoring situation is not right. Think about today’s call - in essence, there was a 50-50 ball in the air, and a player accidentally had his foot stepped on. That’s it. No one even had possession of the ball. And the result was that a team was awarded a near-certain goal. Just for that. That’s so incredibly harsh based on that situation. Goals are far too valuable to be given for such a light offense.
I know this will never happen, and most of you will think this is an insane stance. But I can’t help but think it would be better than what we have now.