I'm just not convinced that you can class that as creating a goal scoring opportunity. If he had then passed it to the player who scored then yes, I would say that could be classed as creating a goal scoring opportunity, but he didn't, he passed it to another player who then created the goal scoring opportunity.
He was was closer to the half way line than the penalty area when the ball hit his hand.
Edited because I can't judge distance very wwll
I would say it was rice's pass that created the goal scoring opportunity tbh