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Law 11 - Offside 3/11/2018
RE: Adult
GEORGE OF HERAKLION, GREECE ASKS...
Today there was a difficult decision to be made in a game for the first place in Greek championship game. I would like to hear a professional answer was it a goal or not;thanks a lot.
It's a short video of the game and the player in white and black stripes does not touch the ball
ANSWER PROVIDED BY REFEREE JOE MCHUGH
Hi George
There are two ways for a PIOP to be called offside. One is interfering with play by touching the ball and the other is 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
# challenging an opponent for the ball or
# clearly attempting to play a ball which is close to him when this action impacts on an opponent or
# making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball
From the video we can see that the attacker was in an offside position and he tries to avoid the ball. By trying to avoid the ball we can opine that it is an obvious action which impacts on the defenders and perhaps the goalkeepers ability to play the ball. IMO given the close proximity of opponents to the PIOP it is offside. If the player was on totally his own and the ball goes through his legs then it is not.
Please remember that the match officials gets one go at this to determine what happened in real time. I do not believe VAR is yet used here? It is reported it will be used next season. In real time this will look like a PIOP who is so close to the opponents that he did in fact interfere. I believe that with VAR that the goal could be ruled offside.
ANSWER PROVIDED BY REFEREE JASON WRIGHT
Hi George,
It's an interesting one. As Ref McHugh points out, 'making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball' is probably the item of concern here.
There's another angle on
- start at about the 2min mark.
There's an angle from behind. It looks like as the keeper is turning and starting to leap, that the attacker appears to be moving for the ball. I'd say that right there is enough to be affecting the keeper because it's going to affect how he commits to the ball.
Also, given where the attacker is standing it's impossible for the keeper to make a full dive otherwise he'd collide with the attacker (and quite possibly get kicked in the head). So I think he has definitely prevented the keeper from playing the ball here and the goal should be disallowed.
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