Unfortunately, is not an intentional play from the Portuguese player… He was actually ducking out of the way.
Has to be a deliberate play where he’s expected to be able to play the ball under control. The fact the last Croatian touch was from someone right in front of him means they’re never going to call that deliberate. That is likely what he was sent to the screen to look at and confirm. As he wouldn’t need to review it if was just a snicko call on the Croatian header
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Yeah, that makes sense. But I usually look to see if there’s a change in the rotation of the ball, and I didn’t see one. If there was a touch, it was so minor as to not even meaningfully affect the flight of the ball.
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Seen two slo mo shots, and the ball defo changes spin. It’s but a flick, but was obvious, to me anyway.
The snicko means the Croatia player touched the ball - fifa deem that factual (i think without deviation its bullshit)
The ref was sent to decide if the Portugal player subsequently played the ball, or whether it came off him (the subjective bit). He tried to get out of the way.
By the rules…correct decision. The rules are shit.
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CR7 has Diogo’s kit on
Would love to see them as all the ones shown on ITV show no deviation…even the pundits say they dont see any.
Yeah, for as much of a dick head he’s been, that put a lump in the throat.
Haha that sums up so much of the aggro about ref decisions.
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The world feed shows the graph with the touch during VAR
If it was based on the chip in the ball registering contact, why even bother to send the referee to the screen? What is he going to discern with his own eyes?
Whether the Portugal player played the ball or it deflected off him.
If he had played it, no offside. Ref deemed he didnt play it…so he gave offside.
That creates a question about the subsequent Portugal touch that was not relevant before. As that is subjective VAR would need the ref to confirm the ref didn’t think the touch was deliberate.
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Ah, fair point.
It creates a real question about the right use of tech. As people are pointing out, the touch was almost imperceptible and practically irrelevant and so using tech to identify it and then ruling out the goal because of it seems incredibly unfair even if technically right.
Yet one of Sweden’s goals in the ir first game was the flip…originally thought offside until the identified a touch by Isak that came when the scorer has got himself back onside. That seemed fair. But you can’t use the tech in one situation and not the other. So how do you use it?
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Oh boy
https://x.com/afcajax/status/2072621351337111977?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g
We all know what this means…Koeman back in for round 3 for World Cup 2030 qualifying
Great run by Manzanbi to create a first for the Swiss.
I hope LFC has looked at him carefully
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That really was an amazing run and control towards the byline, then the pass.
He did it again and drew a foul plus yellow against the opponent.
So funny that you can hear spectators (kids? The pitch are quite high) did the countdown for the keeper to get rid of the ball.