You make a good point. It was clear and obvious he was standing in an offside position, but his interference was not clear and obvious therefore there should have been no VAR intervention, despite being correct in law.This a subjective and not a factual decision. The directives need to rewriting to make non- line offside decisions subject to the ‘clear and obvious’ criterion.
In this case I think any interference actually occurs before the header...
Offside is often complex. Certainly this one. A simple offside would not have needed an OFR. Also see below commentsI think this is much simpler than it looks. When the goalbound header happens, he’s in an offside position obviously affeecting the GK as he is touching him (trying to block him or whatever it is he’s doing).
Yes it does if you want to follow the criteria in LOTG. A player in offside position simply impacting an opponent does not necessarily make it an offside offence. It has to be eitherDoes it make any difference if the keeper would have got there or not, is that taken into consideration ?
Does the attacker have any impact on the keeper, 100% he does, did it make any difference to the outcome, 99% sure it didn't.
80th minute. As Ajax keeper is about to kick a ball that is passed back to him, it bubble over a plastic cup that is thrown on the pitch and over the keeper's foot, then goes out over the goal line (thankfully not in between the posts). What is the restart?
You would think a referee appointed a UCL knock out game would know this or at least his AR/4th would whisper it the comms.Drop ball where object interfered with ball
Mike Jones likes this.
You would think a referee appointed a UCL knock out game would know this or at least his AR/4th would whisper it the comms.