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youngbob said:
The thing is with the offside, Haaland is standing half an inch offside but only because he's being held in place by Botman. He literally cannot move. He's only "interfering" because Botman is gripping his shirt to stop him from moving anywhere.
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I said this when it happened when the commentators were saying he was interfering coz he was holding onto their player. Their player had hold of Erling too, ridiculous decision!
 
bearcityblu said:
The ref and Var didn't apply the correct rule and as a result gave the wrong explanation. Lescott called it staight away after the game.
I look forward to the pgmol explanation on this. You need to be behind 2 players to be onside.
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I wasn’t aware of that until I heard what Lescott said and looked it up. However I don’t earn a living from football. What’s more concerning is that none of the commentators, the referee, the linesman, any of the players and both the Managers were aware of it either. It’s really quite sad.
 
Solid performance at a really hard place to go...having said that Im suprised at how poor Newcastle were - thought they would give it more of a go.

the two young lads at centre half were very good

NOR in midfield was very good and loved the fact that he stood up to Joellinton....even funnier that the supposed hardman turned his attention to Nunes when he came into the picture cause he shit himself up against a 20 year old kid!

Semenyo first half was poor....second half much better and he took his goal well - very Sterling esque a the back post - looks a bit too languid at times but he has played a lot of games in the last few weeks.

Doku was brilliant all night.

We looked so much better when Rodri came on......his sheer presence seems to give us a lift....

Bernardo - excellent - i dont get the criticism of him even over the last few weeks....he just never ever stops running, and affecting the game

The concern for me at present is Haaland - he just doesnt look at the races in the last 3 or 4 games....dont know if he is carrying a knock or something but he isnt anywhere near as active/alive in the box as usual..he seems to be running on empty and isnt even running at full pace.

As for the disallowed goal..my understanding of the offside rule is that there has to eb two defendes (and the goal keeper counts as a defender) between the goal line and the ball...well the goal keeper was infront of haaland so its taken from Popes foot not the defenders...its an unusual one as the goal keeper usually the last defender but in this case he wasnt...so its a clear offside as Haaland is clearly beyond the goal keeper - how it took them so long to wok that out is beyond me....then it comes to the question whether Haaland was stopping the defender from getting to the ball - well they were wrestling with each other so he clearly was

BUT that is the obserdity in the rule.....surely a player should be able to stop a defender from playing the ball ina 50-50 battle....of course you cant stop the goal keeper from diving etc BUT stopping a defender is surely part of the physical game....

Once they bring back in that there has to be clear daylight between the last defender I personally think it will make it easier to make these calls.
 
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