Holding / Pulling An Opponent

[NoFoulsAllowed]

So happens every few matches. A player is through on goal. In clear DOGSO/Promising Attack territory. A player grabs their shirt (or arm around them etc) and tries their best to hinder them as unfairly as possible. But the attacking player fights them off losing a lot of their advantage. They continue on at goal but nothing comes of it.

Instinctively I would always play advantage as that is pretty much expected by all. As blowing the whistle, will lead to a red and a non-ideally placed free-kick.

Would you at the next stop in play caution the defending player in the case of unfairly hindering a DOGSO opportunity as you played advantage.

Guessing with promising attack, since you played advantage, there is no cause to book the defending player for SPA. But would you caution for pulling.

 

[one]

If you deemed it a GSO and played advantage, the law requires you to issue a caution for USB after the ball is out of play.

There is a specific clause in law 12 for this scenario.

 

[one]

A good follow up lotg question (@JamesL you are not allowed to answer ) do you do anything if after you play advantage for a DOGSO, the defender changes the opponent in a fair way and wins the ball?

 

[Samuel]

Think it depends on whether it's still in within your Advantage. If yes: bring it back to the first one and caution the offender. If no: let play continue and caution the defender for the first one when the ball goes out of play, even if it does look very strange.

 

[JamesL]

Think it depends on whether it's still in within your Advantage. If yes: bring it back to the first one and caution the offender. If no: let play continue and caution the defender for the first one when the ball goes out of play, even if it does look very strange.

Just so I understand, if within your advantage, you're going to bring it back (i.e. advantage not accrued) punish the DOGSO foul, and caution the offender?

 

[Samuel]

Just so I understand, if within your advantage, you're going to bring it back (i.e. advantage not accrued) punish the DOGSO foul, and caution the offender?

Ok now that it's worded like that you are making me doubt myself. As the LOTG guru what would the expectation be for that?

 

[one]

Ok now that it's worded like that you are making me doubt myself. As the LOTG guru what would the expectation be for that?

He is not allowed to answer... because he is the lotg guru

To clarify my question, "after playing advantage" intended to mean advantage is over (challenge is not within advantage timeframe).

 

[JamesL]

Ok now that it's worded like that you are making me doubt myself. As the LOTG guru what would the expectation be for that?

If you bring play back to the free kick for the foul you are saying the goal scoring opportunity has been denied so the sanction has to match the offence, and so is then dependent on the location of the offence/type of offence.

I'm not actually answering your actual question @one so hope this okay lol

 

[The Gump]

He is not allowed to answer... because he is the lotg guru

To clarify my question, "after playing advantage" intended to mean advantage is over (challenge is not within advantage timeframe).

That's a brain teaser!

On the one hand, you've played advantage for the DOGSO so should still come back and caution for USB.

However, the DOGSO never developed (as the advantage was there and not taken, as opposed to never developing, one has to assume the attacker either chose not to shoot or delayed the shot to the point the defender has recovered) because the defender won the ball, so whilst you played advantage for DOGSO, there was no DOGSO which makes it feel like it ended up as SPA.

I genuinely don't know the answer but in my mind it would be a tough sell at grassroots for a YC, so whilst technically my suspicion is the correct answer is YC, I'd equally suspect I'd give no sanction in reality.

 

[one]

so whilst you played advantage for DOGSO, there was no DOGSO

Really a digression from the question but technically this is not correct.

DOGSO is Denying an OGS "Opportunity". It is acceptable that not all opportunities convert to a goal. So the opportunity could still have been denied (not the goal). Had it been "DOG" then your argument may have held true.

Also keep in mind not all goal scoring opportunities are of the same value. For example an attacker with the ball 40 yards out with only keeper in goal and no other field defenders in the hlaf is an OGSO. Having the keeper out in the other half (empty goal) is still an OGSO but a much better one.

 

[NOVARef]

Because you determined it was DOGSO but played advantage and the advantage materialized, but then the defender fairly challenged for and won the ball, I believe you would let play continue until the next ball out and then caution the defender for USB (the downgrade for DOGSO).

 

[bester]

A good follow up lotg question (@JamesL you are not allowed to answer ) do you do anything if after you play advantage for a DOGSO, the defender changes the opponent in a fair way and wins the ball?

Congratulate him on a great trick.