I was watching the game. It was an unfortunate incident. There's an argument for a yellow for dangerous play but there was clearly no intent to endanger an opponent. Do we want to take overhead kicks out of the game?
If they are not “overhead” then … yeah. The overhead kick ushered in by the likes of Pele ONLY works in light of things like high boot rules because the players foot is linear and essentially takes the space their own head was moments before.
If you let people just randomly spin and karate kick … then you will have worse injuries than Azpi’s.
Havertz is lucky he doesn’t have a cracked sternum from yesterday.
Losing a goal here or there sucks, but having players put in serious harms way is much, much, much worse.
Felix is lucky his leg isn’t shattered, and … it… was .. obvious. And we didn’t even get a foul call, because if he admitted he saw it, it would have to be a red.
I honestly don’t know if this type of targeting is allowed against other teams because I don’t have time to watch every game played. But I’m pretty effing sick of it happening to mine.
It was brutally obvious and bad, and it will continue to get worse if something isnt done by the FA.
In the NFL you can miss things like pass interference, or holding, but if you miss enough “dangerous” plays like targeting, you can face suspension from officiating.