Western Sydney v Central Coast Mariners

[ladbroke8745]

Just watching this whilst having a lazy morning and saw the 2nd goal..

My first instinct was offside.
The replay with no lines I still said offside.
But goal given.
Didnt zoom in, use other angles etc.. benefit of doubt went with striker (not sure if AR flagged thus going with original decision).

Lines are helpful here but anyone think he may actually have been offside?

 

[ChasObserverRefDeveloper]

From the still, looks as though only his arm is nearer the goal line than the ball, so goal correct.
AR obviously chasing to catch up.

 

[wazztie16]

Possibly head is offside?

 

[Big Cat]

Just watching this whilst having a lazy morning and saw the 2nd goal..

My first instinct was offside.
The replay with no lines I still said offside.
But goal given.
Didnt zoom in, use other angles etc.. benefit of doubt went with striker (not sure if AR flagged thus going with original decision).

Lines are helpful here but anyone think he may actually have been offside?

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This is how it works
The ball doesn't need a vertical line... obvs.
If you draw a line vertically down from a vertically high part of the body (left shoulder for example), the closer the bottom of the line gets to the ground, the more the bottom of the line (ball height) moves to the right (away from the goal line). It's a visual illusion whereby something low to the ground is closer to the goal line than something high from the ground that visually appears to be level on first inspection



Except, when drawn exactly right, the blue line is not exactly vertical, but we won't get into that. But this last point is one of the absurdities of the imprecise accuracies the VAR has tried to achieve from day 1