So surprise surprise, after all that they agreed it was incorrectly given
what a joke. As I argued with many of you after the incident, it was obvious that the player interfering from an offside position should always take precedent.
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Ridiculous how City have been gifted 2 points more than they deserved from that match, could be all the difference come the end of season.
It states: 'Where a player in an offside position immediately impacts on an opponent who has deliberately played the ball, the match officials should prioritise challenging an opponent for the ball, and thus the offside offence of "interfering with an opponent by impacting on the opponent's ability to play the ball" should be penalised.'
In plain terms, that means that from now on, players repeating Rodri's trick would be penalised. However, goals such as that scored by Villa's Ollie Watkins, in which he came from an offside position to seize on an attempted clearance by Newcastle's Fabian Schar earlier this month, would stand as he did 'not impact Schar's ability to play the ball'.