TheMagicFoolBus
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He did more than take the defender's attention, he physically blocked him from marking Van Dijk who wound up scoring. Again, not to the extent that it'd ever be a foul, but Endo literally never even looked at the ball and was purely there to obstruct - but by definition this makes him involved in the play and it's therefore offside.That makes sense, but kind of makes it weirder that he was deemed active but his actions were not significant enough to be a foul and you hardly ever get done for being active unless you're right in the keeper's face and even then, hardly ever. He took the defender's attention granted, but seems like they were levelling up the really tight offside goal, which they didn't show the lines for dodgily.
I hate complex or stupid rules that need explaining, eg when that Middlesbrough player in the FA cup did a blatant handball but wasn't penalised cos he crossed it for the goal, rather than scored himself.
Don't think this was a make-up call - honestly would prefer that this sort of thing be legislated properly, especially as Man City especially have made it a feature of their set pieces.