Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Offside or Goal?

One of you reminded me to go and look for the video of this uncommon goal. It happened in the Italian Cup (I guess it is similar to the FA Cup) between Napoli and Atalanta.

Pass to what seems like an offside player, but the defender who instead of playing the ball, looks at the AR. Since he loses sight of the ball and the ball never reaches the offside player and instead deflects off the back of the defender, I have to agree with the AR and Center that this is not an offside offense, just offside position. Still, it could have been called and we wouldn't have said anything either way, other than perhaps the AR was a little too quick to call offsides. What do you think of the video? And if there are others, that qualify as strange, or weird, I would love to see them as well.

Hopefully, I can set up some sort of Video link, though web design is not my thing.