I think the initial chance was offside ..the through ball to Ronaldo .. he’s lucky he botched it.And Ronaldo ties it quickly. That one would have been called back on VAR last season.
I think the initial chance was offside ..the through ball to Ronaldo .. he’s lucky he botched it.And Ronaldo ties it quickly. That one would have been called back on VAR last season.
It looked like his arm extended beyond the defender, but my understanding is that the arm can't be offsides since it's not legal to play the ball off the arm, and the rest of his body was behind or even with the defender. Could have seen it wrong, though.And Ronaldo ties it quickly. That one would have been called back on VAR last season.
One of the problems right now is that as per usual players are gaming the system a bit to get whistles to give relief. It all happened quite fast so I have no idea if he legitimately was injured or not but the mandatory whistle imo should come with some type of mandatory time off the pitch for more complete concussion tests which would have the happy byproduct of making sure players only stay down for real injuries but of course may make the very bad outcome of forcing players to try to play through injuriesMcTominay took a blast off the side of the head. Tried to get up, lumped back down. But they let him play on. Christ, get serious about head trauma.
They really have to have independent pitch side medical evaluators for this. Leaving it up to the team is … problematic.Another bad weekend for the concussion protocol. McTominay must be off. Yesterday they let McGinn play on until he had to take himself off.
Teams need to be docked points for this. It’s the only way they’ll take it seriously.
50/50 .. Kane would have got itThat was a penalty, but I love seeing Ronaldo lose his mind.
I have no love for the NFL’s handling of the issue, but the blue tent does have its virtues. As @SocrManiac points out, this can’t be left to the teams and players. A stronger independent monitor needs to be onsite.One of the problems right now is that as per usual players are gaming the system a bit to get whistles to give relief. It all happened quite fast so I have no idea if he legitimately was injured or not but the mandatory whistle imo should come with some type of mandatory time off the pitch for more complete concussion tests which would have the happy byproduct of making sure players only stay down for real injuries but of course may make the very bad outcome of forcing players to try to play through injuries
Fails more often than not from my (admittedly spotty) memory. The most recent and egregious example being the Euro final.Has that penalty sub thing ever worked? Seems like it always backfires but maybe that's just selective memory.
That attempt being exhibit A .. tepid, perfect height for the keeper. The only way Noble scores is if the keeper goes the wrong way.It’s just too hard to take a penalty cold. Way too many end up taking really “safe” penalties and get them saved because you don’t have a feel for the strike yet to do anything that really buries a corner
After 5 match weeks it’s looking like VAR is finally being used appropriately ... That is “clear and obvious” is being applied. If the ref had given the PEN on the field I don’t think it would have been overturned.Probably a just result as I think the last Ronaldon dive wasn’t a dive and should have been a penalty
Don’t agree at all with this. I’d really want them using the pitch side monitors for incidents like this. Right now it feels like a return to a lot of arbitrary applications of rules that just drives everyone insaneAfter 5 match weeks it’s looking like VAR is finally being used appropriately ... That is “clear and obvious” is being applied. If the ref had given the PEN on the field I don’t think it would have been overturned.
And Ronaldo has taken little time in re-establishing his reputation as a diver.