Premier League 2019–?

[hughy]

Pulisic won the pen, Willian scored it

T

Willian

H

Willian

A

Willian

N

Willian

KS

 

[Phomesy]

Not watching, who scored the pen? BBC says Willian, PL app says Pulisic.

Matters cos of bets.

Mount

 

[ClintEastwould]

Didn’t realise we are only 5 points away from 15th place.

Hahaha wow

 

[yankspurs]

Kepa's a bit shit.

 

[C0YS]

Offside offence

A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched* by a team-mate is only penalised on becoming involved in active play by:

• interfering with play by playing or touching a ball passed or touched by a team-mate or - No
• interfering with an opponent by:
• preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision or No, was not a clear obstruction of a line of vision, he was on the floor and out of the way. The goalkeeper looked to be in a position to see the ball.
• challenging an opponent for the ball or No
• clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent or No
• making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball No

The ball bounces off Antonio first, two times. Antonio is onside here. Between these two times the ball might have scraped Souceks or might have hit a hand, but thats pure speculation. The shot does not appear to hit Antonio on the way.

 

[Phomesy]

Moss trending on twitter.

I'm sure it's loads of people congratulating him on upholding the purity and transparency of the game's offside law.

 

[C0YS]

neither can any footballers who are commentating on the game. That doesn’t mean there isn’t some strange law mind you, but I can’t see any reason for that goal to be chalked off. Mystified.

The law is publicly available. The only way I can see why it might have been disallowed is if Soucek hit the ball against antonio before coming back to him.

 

[Tucker]

The law is publicly available. The only way I can see why it might have been disallowed is if Soucek hit the ball against antonio before coming back to him.

Seems like Moss bent over backwards in order to disallow it to me.

 

[C0YS]

Offside offence

A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched* by a team-mate is only penalised on becoming involved in active play by:

• interfering with play by playing or touching a ball passed or touched by a team-mate or - No
• interfering with an opponent by:
• preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision or No, was not a clear obstruction of a line of vision, he was on the floor and out of the way. The goalkeeper looked to be in a position to see the ball.
• challenging an opponent for the ball or No
• clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent or No
• making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball No

The ball bounces off Antonio first, two times. Antonio is onside here. Between these two times the ball might have scraped Souceks or might have hit a hand, but thats pure speculation. The shot does not appear to hit Antonio on the way.

Also I'm just focusing on the 'clearly obstructing' its debatable whether it was even preventing Kepa from playing the ball, Would Kepa have had a realistic chance of saving the shot if he has a clearer line of vision? That is what it's asking.

This law is super open to interpretation, most laws in football are, so why are we applying this intentionally designed law to give the referee the ability of using common sense and good judgement on what is considered a clear obstruction. The very law is supposed to allow interpretation and prevent ridiculous contextual offside from happening. But the PL seems to have decided to make things more 'factual' as interpretation is a bad thing, we saw that with the crazy new hand ball laws as well. This 'clarification' only ends up disallowing goals on technicalities and ignoring common sense judgements.

 

[C0YS]

fucking justice

 

[Cornpattbuck]

Bloody hell, West Ham are a strange club.

 

[Mr Pink]

Like a turd that won't flush

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

It’s Chelsea. It’s always Chelsea.

 

[Spursmatty87]

West Ham have been good tonight so far.

 

[philll]

Bloody hell, West Ham are a strange club.

Chelsea are fucking weird too.

 

[ClintEastwould]

West Ham are the ULTIMATE game raising c*nts no other club comes even close.

 

[mark87]

West Ham are the ULTIMATE game raising c*nts no other club comes even close.

So glad they were shite in both our games this season.

 

[spurs mental]

So glad they were shite in both our games this season.

And we still managed to nearly not win either game

 

[C0YS]

West Ham are the ULTIMATE game raising c*nts no other club comes even close.

But also you get into Chelsea's defences faces they struggle.

 

[yankspurs]

Where was Kepa there? Man was miles from the ball. Sarri was right about this clown all along.