GK injury (no contact) as striker shoots and scores

[Athers]

Women's step 5 game today. Will describe as best I can recall and then say what the Veo footage showed. Corner comes to nothing, gets recycled by attacking team who load it into the area. Keeper comes but hesitates as defender gets there first and loops a header up with the ball remaining in the 18 yard box. I am vaguely aware in my peripheral vision that the keeper has stumbled (no contact whatsoever) and has gone down. At what I felt was the same moment, a striker laces the ball into the net. Once defenders see the GK down they're screaming the goal should be disallowed. To be clear, no GK contact, no head injury or anything that I saw in the moment to warrant stopping play such as suspicion of serious injury. Goal given.

Footage after the game shows keeper had got studs caught, hyper-extended her knee and collapsed to the floor. 1.5 seconds elapse before the ball hits the net and you can see me watching the play as it develops (hence not tracking the GK fully.) Not sure I could have done much more.

If it was a collision and GK goes down and stays down I'm stopping play asap or if there had been another phase of attack beyond the immediate shot, I'm stopping play. But given time elapsed I don't think it's likely I can make the assessment of a seemingly innocuous stumble and deny the striker an almost immediate shot from 13 yards. Any advice - not dealt with one like this before.

 

[es1]

Goal is the only decision

 

[RustyRef]

Can't see anything other than goal. Had the ball gone into a semi-safe area you could stop play, but you didn't get the time or opportunity to do that based on how you have described it.

 

[JamesL]

Only outcome is a goal. It's interesting this happened given the discussion in the other thread about at what point play is stopped

 

[Cowboy Ref]

Goal. Not much else to it other than bringing on physio if its a serious injury.

 

[Athers]

Goal. Not much else to it other than bringing on physio if its a serious injury.

Once my focus returned to keeper it was clear she was in some distress. She was treated for several minutes before being able to walk off and be replaced. Not that I could see that based on the initial fall though, it's only afterwards, and certainly not obvious within the couple of seconds we had to react. I feel terrible for the keeper but the goal had to stand in my view. cheers

 

[Athers]

Only outcome is a goal. It's interesting this happened given the discussion in the other thread about at what point play is stopped

will look at other threads - always good to learn

 

[one]

Women's step 5 game today. Will describe as best I can recall and then say what the Veo footage showed. Corner comes to nothing, gets recycled by attacking team who load it into the area. Keeper comes but hesitates as defender gets there first and loops a header up with the ball remaining in the 18 yard box. I am vaguely aware in my peripheral vision that the keeper has stumbled (no contact whatsoever) and has gone down. At what I felt was the same moment, a striker laces the ball into the net. Once defenders see the GK down they're screaming the goal should be disallowed. To be clear, no GK contact, no head injury or anything that I saw in the moment to warrant stopping play such as suspicion of serious injury. Goal given.

Footage after the game shows keeper had got studs caught, hyper-extended her knee and collapsed to the floor. 1.5 seconds elapse before the ball hits the net and you can see me watching the play as it develops (hence not tracking the GK fully.) Not sure I could have done much more.

If it was a collision and GK goes down and stays down I'm stopping play asap or if there had been another phase of attack beyond the immediate shot, I'm stopping play. But given time elapsed I don't think it's likely I can make the assessment of a seemingly innocuous stumble and deny the striker an almost immediate shot from 13 yards. Any advice - not dealt with one like this before.

Like others have said, I don't see any decision but goal.

And like @JamesL said, we just had a discussion around a similar scenario in another thread. If, after seeing the keeper stumbling and before the ball goes into the net you had decided you are stopping play (because of serious injury) and you just ended up blowing the whistle a tad too late, then you had a case for disallowing the goal. But as as you described it you never even intended to stop play.

 

[Johnson]

The point of stopping play for a serious injury isn’t to prevent any disadvantage to the defending team from one of their players getting injured through no fault of the opposition, it’s to ensure player safety by allowing fast treatment. Since play has been stopped anyway, there’s no need to disallow the goal.

 

[Homer Ref]

I think you're basically relying on the opposition attackers to realise the situation and maybe not score, but I would say what the game expects is a goal and nothing else. I think the defenders are out of order because, in the end it is their failure to stop the attack, while you have successfully carried out what you needed to do.