Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

[Brownie]

Always funny listening to the ex-refs. Can see why the league don't want them to do post-match interviews when they're all so poor at explaining things.

Anyway, I think that's harsh. Can understand the rule about deliberately playing the ball - you don't want people to be able to smash it against someone and that plays everyone onside - but it's not like Valverde's played a pass towards Benzema is it. He's doing exactly what the Liverpool defenders are doing: competing for a loose ball. And yet it's the attacking team that gets punished.

 

[Death]

Is the powers that be wanting pool to try get as many CL as madrid so they can have that juicey final one day of who is the best.

 

[Sharpies volley]

C-O-R-R-U-P-T

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

….he’s getting £10k per match to say what he says.

You've broken me, my head's gone

 

[Lob]

I am seriously starting to wonder if the RS own every single Refereeing association on the Planet. I mean what else can explain the amount of wrong decisions that go in their favour. It is mind boggling.

Come on RM, i want to see flood warnings in Merseyside due to the amount of tears please.

 

[4 Eyes Better Than 2]

4 minute long VAR check...

Watched over and over and over to find anything to disallow it. You can almost picture them in the VAR room going through the rules one by one to find a rule that would stick.

 

[bluelife]

Just seen a replay of that offside.


Ha ha ha.

What an utter farce.

 

[N.S.N.O.]

Biggest game of the season, and they get the offside rule wrong.... this doesn't happen in any other sport

 

[Death]

Of madrid don't let's all buy real jersies and sport them about all summer.

Stick Ancelotti on the back for extra lolz

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Just seen a replay of that offside.


Ha ha ha.

What an utter farce.

I also think there is something in the theory I've seen a few mention on how the likes of the PL / UEFA are trying to drag every game/scenario to the final moment i.e. last game of the season or in cup finals penalties to recover as much losses from the pandemic as possible.

Every week dodgy officiating dragging the title and relegation battles to the final game + every cup game being dragged to penalties to attract maximum viewers.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

VAR and Walton have it spot on, it's quite simple(ish) if you know the laws of the game you watch.

Benzema is in an offside position when the ball is touched by the Madrid player who goes in for the tackle with the 2 liverpool players. The ball then hits 1 defender and bounces off and hits another defender before going to Benzema. Those 2 hits, deflections or whatever you want to call them do not count as a deliberate play.

The issue is how to define "deliberately played".

IFAB define "deliberate" as :

Deliberate​

An action which the player intended/meant to make; it is not a ‘reflex’ or unintended reaction.

Pretty sure anyone who's ever played the game would say that neither liverpool player deliberately intended for the ball to be played in the way it was. Sure, they deliberately went in for a tackle/block with the intention to get the ball but that's not how IFAB view these sort of things, a block, a deflection isn't a deliberate play.

 

[Johnniepk]

 

[N.S.N.O.]

Basically Madrid have to beat Liverpool by 2 goals now to win.....totally fair

 

[ToffeeTim]

VAR and Walton have it spot on, it's quite simple(ish) if you know the laws of the game you watch.

Benzema is in an offside position when the ball is touched by the Madrid player who goes in for the tackle with the 2 liverpool players. The ball then hits 1 defender and bounces off and hits another defender before going to Benzema. Those 2 hits, deflections or whatever you want to call them do not count as a deliberate play.

The issue is how to define "deliberately played".

IFAB define "deliberate" as :

Deliberate​

An action which the player intended/meant to make; it is not a ‘reflex’ or unintended reaction.

Pretty sure anyone who's ever played the game would say that neither liverpool player deliberately intended for the ball to be played in the way it was. Sure, they deliberately went in for a tackle/block with the intention to get the ball but that's not how IFAB view these sort of things, a block, a deflection isn't a deliberate play.

This argument makes no sense

How can diving into a tackle not be a deliberate attempt to play the ball.

If he wasnt going for the ball then what was he doing

Also, did the RM player not play the ball backwards too...?

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Madrid better now.
Looks like a repeat of the fa cup final

I like the ref -for now- he lets the play flow.