one
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Agreed. all defenders turn to the corner where referee is pointing. The referee wrongly allowing the corner to be taken quickly from the opposite side definitely contributes to Spain's goal and makes it an unfair one. Correct decision would have been to retake form the side pointed to but at the very least it should have been retaken from the opposite side giving the defenders a fair chance to defend it.
This is the kind of thing you would want you AR to help you with.
This is the kind of thing you would want you AR to help you with.
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Ciley Myrus
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Agree with direct above. If we are excusing the ref for switching off for a second, then there is no excusing AR2 at all. Team work. I would be stunned to see that at grass roots, never mind a vital WC game. Home time
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Ciley Myrus
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Tbh the corner is a factual error in law by the ref and grounds for a replay....
Ciley Myrus
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Its huge? The laws say the corner gets taken from the side where the ball leaves
Double so if ref signals
The middle of the bar ones where i dont point, am not fussed what side
one
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Even if you have pointed to once side and all the defenders are facing gathered on that side and the attackers take it quickly from the other side?
Ciley Myrus
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The restart was only 70 yards away from where the referee indicated it was to be!
arbitre
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Here the match would have to be replayed, it is called a "Technical Fault" by the referee in relation to the laws of the game. He gave the corner at one side of the field and it was taken from the opposite side. Will be interesting to see FIFA's response if Morocco make an appeal.
Ciley Myrus
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if am Morocco am demanding a replay for sure....its an error in application of the law
Ciley Myrus
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How? There has been a factual error in law by the referee. Nothing that is up for interpretation. And nothing like, say Lampard "goal" v Germany, as that went unseen, or Maradona handball, as it also was unseen or seen and decreed as not an offence, this was a ball out of play at one side and a referee acknowedging this, and correctly instructing the restart to be at one corner of the pitch. Given he has issued this instruction, the next passage of play can now only begin at this, and from this point.
I would def appeal if i was Morocco......if nothing else to get in black and white why what happened is ok?
Ah OK, didn't realize the ball went out of play on the left hand side of the goal
Ciley Myrus
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Its not even that it went out at that side..the ref, as the OP vid shows, is standing for 20 mins with arm out, pointing to that side.
Its the most obvious referee error of the WC so far for me, given its not down to anyones interpretation, or tolerance level, or game managment or so on , its actual factual.
Its the most obvious referee error of the WC so far for me, given its not down to anyones interpretation, or tolerance level, or game managment or so on , its actual factual.
I doubt the Moroccan officials will be knowledgeable enough to launch an appeal. There are precedents for replays, but I'm not sure this error would be serious enough for FIFA to consider a rematch. Maybe the referee was distracted by all the chatter in his ear. It only takes a brief loss of situational awareness
Ciley Myrus
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I think it be different as well if they could have qualified ? So, they might just let it lie.
Cue more Sunday league players telling us now that corners can be taken at either side.......
Cue more Sunday league players telling us now that corners can be taken at either side.......
a.mahmoud
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Moreover, there is no corner in the first place, because Morino's cross was executed out of the pitch. I really don't see the use of this VAR, it's incomplete and awfully biased.