is it a foul if you tackle an opponent, with the ball 2 meters away?
Was Lindelofs foul for Tuanzebe’s goal the correct decision?
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Who gives a feck
Bailly being a bad influence on Lindelof already
Nobody was tackled in fairness
Lindelof has launched himself leading with the knee and head behind, because he jumped too early at best. The ball isnt arriving yet and he's still going straight into the opponent's head with the knee. This is not the exact moment of contact, its the moment that the knee into the face is 100% happening because Lindelof has decided to leap leading with his knee. The actual contact would be slightly after
Was Keane’s tackle on Haaland even a foul? The ball was there to be won.
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2 Eyes on the ball and the defender has zero eyes on the ballLindelof has launched himself leading with the knee and head behind, because he jumped too early at best. The ball isnt arriving yet and he's still going straight into the opponent's head with the knee. This is not the exact moment of contact, its the moment that the knee into the face is 100% happening because Lindelof has decided to leap leading with his knee. The actual contact would be slightly after
He committed another foul for being too eager to head the ball in the 1st half but this one was just needless and over the top.
Yeh. Just a player got kneed on the face.
Because somebody went up for a header with 2 eyes on the ball. Not quite the same.
The angle from 1:01. Defender has his eyes on the ball the whole time until Lindelof is on top of him.
Tiger knee was a bastard of a move to pull off too.
Defender almost had 0 eyes period after that dangerous play. The defender is looking at the ball coming in from the cross, decides he wont get there with a leap, turns to face the players attacking the ball just as my screenshot is taken. He's 100% got his eyes on the ball until hes about to get whacked when he gets a split second to see Lindelof flying
Having eyes on the ball isn’t a free card to knew someone in the head for not paying full attention.
I thought we all knew this?
Although I do like the idea it’s be a different sport entirely.
Did Nani deserve to be sent off against Madrid?
Meh not really! The ball landed on Tuanzebes head who was just behind lindelof and Tuanzebe didn't need to jump really. That's just how it dipped. Lindelof was a foot or so away from it, which is way off considering he never jumped higher in his life... But in general it wasn't far from being a fair goal imo.
Lindelof is famously bad at judging how to time a header tbf. If his knee isn't up it's never a foul, I guess he's put his knee out thinking the other lad would go up for it and he'd clatter into him, certainly no intention. For me it's not intentional and it's not relevant to the actual goal so I wouldn't have given it as a foul but Lindelof was daft to fly in so early with his knee out so we can't complain too much. How the feck that game ended 0-0 I'll never know though!
As for the foul itself, yes it's a foul but red would've been harsh. Just had eyes on the ball and went for it although he shouldn't have lead with the knee.
I wonder if it's still a foul if he goes normally and barges into the defender who's just standing near post w/o jumping. Don't think it is.
I wonder if it's still a foul if he goes normally and barges into the defender who's just standing near post w/o jumping. Don't think it is.
that’s not how the law works.
It was a knee away to be fair.
Would be his own fault too - what did he have his eyes on? Didn’t defend himself or see the ball.
No, Nani, without the Madrid player rushing in, Nani is bringing that ball under control.
Lindelöf is nowhere near the ball.
I don’t think it’s boxing.
So he should ignore a flying knee coming at him that he senses at the last split second and keep his eyes on the ball he's not going to reach?
I guarantee you would look
id look at one of the 2, yes.
The defender clearly has his eyes on the balls.
Good one?
That's hard to prove. The defender was right in front of him the whole time, and barely moving.
If this one allowed, next time Bruno is defending a corner, all opponents have excuse to knee him on the face. With excuse, oh, all of their eyes are "on the ball", while completely missing the ball.
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Straight out of the Streets of Rage playbook.
I see nothing untoward there...just a dude getting kneed in the face.
Since when is anyone supposed to ”protect themselves” in football?
Let's even leave the argument that he should not have to jump simply to avoid a foul. The way Lindelfo goes in, that knee is still connecting with some part of his body, most likely his midriff unless he does exactly what Lindelof did, in which case we wouldn't be watching a game of football any more.
First of all I’d have eyes on the ball and jump with who I’m marking.
Secondly if somebody is jumping at me I don’t let him jump into my fecking face without bracing myself.
Most of the horror tackles we see have 2 eyes on the ball in fairness and miss timed.
No we’d be watching gladiators, apparently. Barbaric.
I was always taught it as a defender on corners in school.
Track the runners or get flattened
Cantona’s kung fu wasn’t as bad as that