More the top of his bicep but based on rules at least my understanding of them it’s not a hand ball.
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Nope. Blatant hadball.
The ONLY thing that may save him if it happened outside the box and then VAR can't intervene, not even if he would otherwise be red-carded for it.
Overall, between these two incidents in the game and the other game, I can count a number of games directly influenced by wrong calls this CL round:
- Porto v Barca - 2 penalties for Porto (1 debatable as it may have been handball outside the box)
- Napoli v RM - ridiculous call on the Napoli penalty (from the world's best ref IMO, which makes is even worse)
- Atleti v Feyenoord - first Morata goal should never have been allowed, mindboggling decision
- Salzburg v Real Sociedad - AT LEAST debatable, but IMO Le Normand could've (and should've) been sent off for a professional last man foul in the 15 min and Sociedad should've been down to 10 men (he only got a yellow)
Part of it is down to the refs, but the part is some rules that have been changed and changed again, and mostly for the worse, and mostly not in the spirit of the game.
The amount of games these days decided by some accidental hanball when the ball is nowhere near a dangerous position to be a threat... It's actually disheartening and game-ruining.
Shocking. How many of these refs do not understand football, it's actually shocking.
I can tell you from personal experience, I know 3 guys who reffed (1 ref 1st division Croatian League, 1 ref youth football and 1 linesman who reffed 1st division AND EURO/CL games) - 2/3 basically never played football and know it from rulebooks and TV,
The linesman who got to take part in CL games and ref games with Cristiano Ronaldo etc... Is the most clueless of them all.
(not many Croatian refs got to ref Man Utd at Old Trafford, yet he did... and is clueless... he'll cite some rulebook stuff, but he does not actually understand the game, I swear).