The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[Scisca]

DakonBlackblade said:

Scisca said:

The penalty was a good call, doesn't matter if you like it or not. Sure, Costa could have continued the play, but he didn't have to. The Dutch defender hit him in the foot when sliding and thus made it difficult for him to continue the play - that's a faul. The only mistake was missing the faul on Casillas.

I'm surprised the last game was so good :) The Aussies really did great. At first I was like "c'mon, they are humiliating themselves even more than our team would", but they sure manned up. Pity they started the game scared like little girls and allowed Chile to score the two goals before they realised they can take Chile down. Mistake we also make way too often :(

That was never a penalty on Costa, the defender had his leg completly retracted he did not touch costa who had intetionaly not moved his leg to try and get hit and even so he dindt manage to. Costa stepped on the defender leg when he finaly decided he had to move and imedialy proceeded to dive. It was pretty ridiculously obvious it wasnt a penalty.

@bold - this doesn't matter at all! He makes a tackle, doesn't matter how he holds his leg. It's a sliding tackle, so it's his risk.

@underlined - yes, he steppend on the leg of a sliding defender, who made the tackle, missed the ball completely, but got under the leg of the striker, forcing his foot to move by some 30 cm, which when making a turn throws the attacker off balance making it very difficult if not impossible to continue his attack. That is a foul. This was a correct call. If you make a sliding tackle, miss the ball completely and hit, bump or undercut the attacker - it's a foul. That's how this sport works, you slide - you take the risk. That's why he didn't even argue the call, the defender knew he messed up.