Except keepers, the most protected species on the planet.Nobody on the pitch is allowed to plow into other players when they miss the ball. Dunno how anyone would need this explained to them.
You should see Jussi in the entertainment thread, every single Marvel movie in his eyes deserves Oscar nominees.Nobody on the pitch is allowed to plow into other players when they miss the ball. Dunno how anyone would need this explained to them.
And I can't remember a single time a penalty has been given for that.Just cause you're reaching for the ball doesn't mean any contact after that isn't a foul. He went up for a challenge, totally missed the ball, and then clattered the attacking player.
But keepers are allowed to go for crosses. In fact, I've seen it with the Finnish national team games where a keeper misses a cross slightly, bumps into a player, goes down and gets a free kick. Keepers have been getting the benefit of the doubt for years. Reverse the situation and if United had been awarded a penalty, the very same people would be fuming about that too!It's one thing to give the keeper the benefit of the doubt when it's a situation like earlier on the Wolves keeper where Antony tried to chip him and the keeper bumped into him a bit afterwards. In those situations the contact isn't significant and it's a much more natural "save" type motion.
But in this case he tried to come out to intercept a cross, completely misjudged it and clattered the attacker with a decent amount of force. If he had just bumped him with the body, they it's a whole lot of nothing, but the arms swinging down onto him are what really makes it a foul and thus it should have been a pen.
If it was just body to body contact I don't think anyone would have said anything about it. The issue was the arm swing.But keepers are allowed to go for crosses. In fact, I've seen it with the Finnish national team games where a keeper misses a cross slightly, bumps into a player, goes down and gets a free kick. Keepers have been getting the benefit of the doubt for years. Reverse the situation and if United had been awarded a penalty, the very same people would be fuming about that too!
Well he was reaching for the ball. He had no time to react after missing on it.If it was just body to body contact I don't think anyone would have said anything about it. The issue was the arm swing.
Szczesny in the WCWhen has a goalkeeper been penalized for missing on a cross? I don't remember a single case.
That was on Messi though, he's even more protected than goalkeepers.Szczesny in the WC
I gave it like ten minutes trying to find the penalty Matt Ryan gave up against West Ham for Alkmaar in the Conference League. If you manage to find video post it, but pretty much clattered Bowen exactly like this.When has a goalkeeper been penalized for missing on a cross? I don't remember a single case.
Well you certainly changed your view on those calls compared to the penalty given to Argentina vs Poland at the World Cup:United should just be put on a separate table with calls like that.
Which was always called for a penalty wrongly. Probably not the reference point someone arguing against a penalty would want to me make lolSzczesny also didn't swing his arm across Messi. He reached up to block a cross and barely missed.