Advice here please rusty?
Had an assistant recently, he was really good, but in the game I had a similar incident to OP, that ran through to goalie who cleared but attacker was really close, enough for me to consider him to be challenging. I said at half time I would have wanted the flag, he was doing the wait and see, ready to raise on touching of the ball by attacker, and that I almost blew anyway but didnt know if would have given me the flag to support me.
Would you have blown up for offside or allowed play to continue? In hindsight it caused me no match control issues nor did it lead to a match changing incident, although had the ball broke better it might have done. He was a young lad on dugout side so I am glad I supported him but what would you have done here?
Open to others suggestions as well...