ESPN FC’s VAR guru Dale Johnson explains why an error was made in allowing Manchester City’s second goal of the game against Fulham.
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Woah, teams playing against man city can play dirty and everything is okay, what about last match against sheffield, or 100 other situations that were called against man city, i can still remember that hand-ball goal by tottenham player in the UCL i think it was Llorente's goal that kconked out man city out of the UCL quarter-final, and there are 100 other situations which you ignore, you all just trying to shame city because they are just too good, and there's nothing you can do about it, not even your fake UEFA's financial fair play regulations will help you
Why would Fulham be angry? As if that would have changed anything and where was you when rashford did it
This is not a video 🤡
Are we surprised VAR doesnt work? They're all mates and dont want to give eachother a hard time. Rules? What rules. May as well start using robots as refs cause clearly the refs we got are incompetent
Ok 4-1 cool
Went against akanji last season and this season it went for him… Football karma…you win some and you loose some… But its a blantant offside and as a city fan i would be gutted if that happened to us. The refs dont apply common sense… But the english media dont make it easy for them
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I support City and I am usually quite biased in their favour (as is common with most sports fans) but I think that Akanji was interfering with play and he did have some kind of an effect on the goalkeeper, so really the goal should have been disallowed. He was definitely offside, that is very easy to see, and yes I think that he did interfere with play. Once again tho, Michael Oliver has proved to everyone that he is not fit to be a Premier League official (or to work in any league really) and the other thing is that I think alot of City fans have been secretly waiting for a goal by City that should have been disallowed for interference, because there was a big feeling that we were owed a decision of this nature in order to make up for the horrible and quite scary level of incompetence that allowed man united's goal from last season to be given even though rashford was interfering with play by shielding the ball while being offside. So yea, I think that things have now balanced themselves out in that respect and we can all move on.
It’s purely offside from a sportsmanship point of view. From a political point of view it all depends if you’re Man City or Man U or Arsenal or Fulham point of view. See what I mean 🤷
Terrible from VAR but its expected. The officials in England are absolutely awful.
Correct call. How about they rewrite the rule so it isn't braindead. Leaving the decision up to interpretation is stupid.
This us less bad than what rashfird did. He was tiptoing to score a 1v1 when he was offside then bruno kicked in.
This one, it was an indirect intereference bc Ake had a shot on goal and lets not lie to ourselves that keeper didnt see it because akanji was offside
The 2nd City goal made no difference to the outcome of the game. Arguments either way for ruling it as a goal or not a goal.
What about the player fouling Alvarez in the area giving away a penalty on 70mins, he was on a yellow card and should have been sent off ?
Whete's the moral outrage at that incorrect decision ??
City won 5 -1, 3 points gained, best GD in the league and we move on 😀😃😉😁💙 CTID, happy days blues !
ESPN SHUT UP
Absolute joke
Oh wow, a controversial VAR decision benefitting a top team NO WAY 🤯
In Europa Cups these things doesn't happen.
PL-refs knows the rules. Clearly bought.
It's offside, any fool can see that !
Cmon, thats citeh we are talking here ..off side or not off side, goal or no goal…you dont have to moan or complain, they dont give a f**k.
Fulham score sure offside different rules for different teams 😅
frankly, in the end..city will still win
You all found an excuse for Marcus Rashford goal against City last season. Both goals shouldn't have stood
Yes when was Man U it was nothing but now because it's M.C. everyone is complaining, officials mistakes are happening all the time towards all clubs not just so called small ones, M.C. would win either way, Fulham played well but they didn't show any character after that decision so…
They always get it wrong to help City
The line of vision they consider when determining offside is the line between the shooter and the goalkeeper at the exact moment of the shot. After the ball leaves the foot or head etc. of the shooter, all the subsequent lines of vision after that point are not considered unless the offside player touches the ball or touches the goalkeeper during his attempt to make the save
Looks like these technology which are meant to assist people breeds more and more idiots in the country
If this was again man united then it should nt be only 1 min video…
It's a legit goal. Akanji didn't touch the ball nor he was blocking GK line of sight.
Best League with the worst referees. Just a bunch of mates protecting each other. PGMOL is just a huge f*****g joke.
Being in the visual field of the goalkeeper alone has impact on the play. This is utter stupidity on whoever wrote that rule.
They always buy the league look at 2022,controversies against Everton 1-0,Soton 0-0, Wolves 1-0, 2-1 at Arsenal,Final day with Villa Fernandino as a last man fouling Watkins and go unpunished by Oliver and VAR then u win the league with a point above Liverpool
Every one is going to get free goals, Liverpool, Arsenal got a lot last season, so it’s city time
They got it spot on, if somebody pays you thousands to give City every decision, we’ll that’s what you have to do
Keep crying I love it. And Diop should have walked straight red nevermind a second yellow see how it works.
How can var get it wrong, people are really lame for accepting such a Herculean propaganda, this was just like the World Cup. Rig it association. We are the var,we watched it live n we all said it’s offside, but the script writers said it was goal.
No they got it right but thanks for the narrative 👍
No no VAR did it right because it's City their league, officials,FA, Manchester etc…..
The narrator in this video is factually incorrect on the offside law – a player stood in an offside position is NOT penalised if he is actively avoiding the ball, regardless of whether that action affected the goalkeeper in this case. Law 11 expressly states that such an offside player should only be penalised if "making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball". So dummying the ball would be penalised, but avoiding the ball is not….which is why the goal stood. I will say though, if I was a supporter of the defending team, that I'd be absolutely livid. The Law clearly needs clarifying.
“But Bruno last year.. cry cry cry” if it got given against you, you’d be fuming. City fans want to cry about a similar situation in a different part of the pitch as if they’re the same incident. Watch it back and explain to me why Akanji doesn’t celebrate the goal? He knew, so did haaland and the rest of Varchester City.
Proves var is not perfect
"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
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 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"
Akanji does not touch the ball.
Akanji does not obstruct the Fulham goalkeeper's line of vision
Akanji does not attempt to play the ball
Fans may not like the rules – but allowing the goal was correct decision.
This is a silly analysis. For the offside rule to apply in this situation, Akanji would have had to have interfered with the keeper's sightlines, which he clearly didn't, AND he would have had to have attempted to play the ball, which he didn't. Lastly, the exception to the offside rule is if a player is merely reacting to a play and attempting to get out of the way of the ball, which Akanji was. Lastly, the keeper started his move to save the header BEFORE it reached Akanji, meaning there is simply no interference with his ability to stop the shot. Four good reasons the goal stood; no good reasons to call it off.