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That's a fantastic advantage (assuming he has played advantage!)

Taking the bullet point about advantage in Law 5 at face value, you can play advantage from any offence where the non-offending team would benefit from it - obviously in practice there are some offences where it would very rarely happen.
 
I don't see why you can't. The restart was taken correctly so it's not like playing advantage on a foul throw.

Technically I'd say it's clear DOGSO so if you play advantage a caution should be given.
 
cwyeary said:
I don't see why you can't. The restart was taken correctly so it's not like playing advantage on a foul throw.

Technically I'd say it's clear DOGSO so if you play advantage a caution should be given.
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Interesting quirk in the laws because it would have been more advantageous to Italy for the referee not to play advantage because the referee would have had to show a red card for DOGSO.
 
Mr Dean said:
Interesting quirk in the laws because it would have been more advantageous to Italy for the referee not to play advantage because the referee would have had to show a red card for DOGSO.
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Really good point. The advantage is probably a disadvantage here. That's a lot to get your head round in less than a couple of seconds!
 
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cwyeary said:
I don't see why you can't. The restart was taken correctly so it's not like playing advantage on a foul throw.

Technically I'd say it's clear DOGSO so if you play advantage a caution should be given.
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If it's dogso a second touch is a red card as there is no possibility to play the ball

Sorry, ignore me, advantage downgrades dogso to caution. Just woke up lol
 
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The real question here is what was the Albanian player who was the target of the free kick pass thinking?
 
The smart referee orders a retake because the attacker moved towards the ball and was about 4 yards away when the kick was taken.

I think the referee should have reacted immediately. It presents very badly - no matter how daft the red team here - to allow a player who is blatantly “encroaching” to then benefit from an advantage, yellow, red, or whatever.

IMHO of course. Was the ref in “friendly” mode perhaps?
 
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