Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

[Sarnia Kevin]

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.

Why not?

 

[bluelife]

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.

Missing the mark badly there - deliberately play means "did they mean to touch it?", not "Did they mean to pass it to the opposition?"

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I’m in a metal bar. The owner is wearing a Saxon t-shirt. Brilliant

 

[abcdef]

Michael Owen has an absolute war crime of an accent.

Haha, that made me laugh.

 

[Kev The Rat]

I know it’s early but imagine they win this on pens

That would be 3 trophies on penalties this season

 

[Azza]

Kneed him in the face!! Disgusting!

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Militao outfoxing the entire Liverpool front Line..

 

[Obes]

Militao just won a tackle with his head.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Despite the pressure Liverpool have created nothing.

 

[N.S.N.O.]

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.

Fabinho's touch is deliberate, he's making a tackle to push the ball away from goal...it just happens to go straight to Benzema then

 

[Death]

Always marvel at the irony of when I thought VAR would make things boring but atleast it'll abolish corruption.

 

[Curtis]

Never buying a Heineken again.

Shouldn't even before today perpetually skunked mediocre beer

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Hahahaha claiming handball. Behave

 

[tsubaki]

limbs

limbs

limbs

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Justice