Sorry, that's just not my interpretation.........trying hard to avoid a face plant....This is EXACTLY the situation where distance and speed doesn't matter, he clearly predicts the path of the ball and puts his arm out to block it. Penalty every day of the week.View attachment 2720
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Then I'd recommend you actually watch the video. Only the first 7-8s are required.Sorry, that's just not my interpretation.........trying hard to avoid a face plant....
And in a not so ideal world, where hebjust needs to see it, he could make the sprint into the area, to his right, left on the picture... also placing him nicely for anything else should the handball not happen.You have also perfectly captured the view, of lack of, that the referee has.
In a perfect world, in the pic above, the referee would be, as we look at the pic, to the right hand side of the red player who is on the right, thus creating an angle.
Yes I watched the whole incident.....you may well be right as to the reason why this "football expects" penalty was not given....I still think it was not a deliberate handball......Then I'd recommend you actually watch the video. Only the first 7-8s are required.
The defender slides, but the attacking player cuts the ball back. The defender, has one hand on the ground and is starting to get up, then lunges forward (head and arm first), with arm out moving into the path where the cross would go, and it is at that time that the ball and hand experience contact.
This is about as clear a deliberate handling as you can imagine...
And I think that Ciley has it right as to why it wasn't called -- the referee is in a good position for where the play is, but gets caught out for this particular play and is looking at the player on the ground head on, so cannot see the movement. The AR on the far side is looking through a couple of defenders, and has, unfortunately low credibility because of his distance.
And why not?I still think it was not a deliberate handball......
Is that 3G????, if its not its very strangely cut grass, its like a bar code shading!!!
This was covered in the Dermot Gallagher weekend review on Sky Sports this morning. It definitely looks much worse from one angle than the other, and Dermot's view was that he was trying to push himself up from the ground rather than intentionally handling the ball.