Man Utd v Villa

What are your thoughts on two of the United goals ? (1) the offside player, directly in front of the Villa keeper (2) The Villa keeper being fouled by the Utd keeper at the corner for the last goal ?

1 - the 'offside' player wasnt offside
2 - no foul

With regards to the 'foul' on the keeper... with all current interpretation / guidance, it's just not a foul... but it feels like it should be.

To clarify, the action by Lamens had no material impact on Suzuki's ability to complete the action he attempted (punching the ball). Not a foul for me on field, and certainly not one for VAR involvement. But it does sit slightly uncomfortably with me that Lamens has realised the ball isn't going near him, ran 3-4 yards with eyes only for Suzuki and then given him a bit of a nudge. You can see why people think it's a foul (even though they're wrong)

Had Mbuemo been in an offside position he would certainly have been interfering with Suzuki, but he wasn't, there was a defender who hadn't got out quickly enough who was playing him on.

No foul on Suzuki for me, contact isn't automatically a foul. Had the minor contact from Lammens affected his ability to catch the ball I would say foul, but I don't think it did, he just flapped at it and missed, which in fairness he had been doing all game with or without any opponents challenging him.

Bit of an odd one as well at the start of the match early in. Ref got in the way of a player and stopped play for a droppd ball, surely this is only for the ref touching the ball, which I couldn't see.

Tim Punter said:

Bit of an odd one as well at the start of the match early in. Ref got in the way of a player and stopped play for a droppd ball, surely this is only for the ref touching the ball, which I couldn't see.

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Since we keep seeing this in professional games (including the WC), I’m pretty confident this is being instructed to refs at the top level despite not being in the Laws.