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Despite being a foul, why is Cias complete alone?
Oof, this doesn’t fit the narrative that Arsenal and Liverpool fans have been pushing
A goalkeeper is considered to be in control of the ball with the hand(s) when:
the ball is between the hands or between the hand and any surface (e.g. ground, own body) or by touching it with any part of the hands or arms except if the ball rebounds from the goalkeeper or the goalkeeper has made a save
holding the ball in the outstretched open hand
bouncing it on the ground or throwing it in the air
A goalkeeper cannot be challenged by an opponent when in control of the ball with the hand(s).
Learn the rules guys before you complain about referees endlessly
Doesn’t fit the agenda innit
That’s not control though. The ball rebounded from the keeper. If he’d held it, it would be control. Also, “challenge” in this context is about taking the ball off him (like the awful non-decision in a Turkish women’s game recently).
The ball was between his arms making contact with both his gloves. That counts as control under the rules
Challenge can mean that Turkish call or jumping in the air interfering with a keeper trying to catch the ball
Regardless, the mere presence of contact implies a lack of “clear and obvious error”
Most VAR calls that people are mad about are also based on rules.
Tbh I see it more often people being upset at inconsistency. Sure when they happen it may be based on rules, but the other half of the time that don’t get called pisses everyone else off
Yeah GK’s are protected or you’d have pushes and shoves on them constantly to get advantage.
I get what you mean but literally the reason akanji isn’t closer to contend with the ball is because Alisson has pushed him away,which is way more contact than is then made by akanji in the challenge. I get why it’s disallowed but it feels really soft.
Super soft
Keeper gets the benefit of the doubt here. Very close to catching the ball but doesn’t, and they’re is contact on his arm by the city player. Easy decision, only people who want to go against the refs for no reason would think otherwise.
City fans think they can push the goalie into the net if he has the ball and it should count. It’s no surprise they try to also justify holding the keeper’s arm down.
That’s soft and I wouldn’t be happy if it were against us for sure, but the way Ali tried to jump and ended up going more sideways than upwards tells me it impacted him a lot more than what it seemed.
I’m a keeper and I would be absolutely rinsed by the rest of team if I claimed that was a foul.
Good call by the refs. 👍 Refereeing has been fairly good so far.
Imagine if that went against Liverpool
Well yeah, you can’t hold onto goalkeepers arm, immediately a foul.
Arm pull. Next.
Very cheap foul
I love that people say it’s not a foul. Even my girlfriend that doesn’t even watch football told me “are you allowed to grab the guy’s hand?” Lol
Reminds me of Rodri and Casemiro holding hands a season ago 😂