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The pass to Iniesta was close, but if we assume that was not offsides then the play is fine. Even though he was past the defenders when the pass was made, if a pass is made in-line or backwards, then it is impossible to be offsides. Cesc Fabregas chipped the ball over the Croatian defense to Andres Iniesta who moved in on goal alone.
He slipped the ball across to a wide open substitute Jesus Navas who blasted the ball into the net in exhilaration. The play caught the Croatian defense off as they thought that Iniesta and Navas were offside. Replays indicated that Iniesta was onside and even though Navas was behind the defense when Iniesta passed the ball to him, offside rules deemed that he was behind the ball when Iniesta passed it. Were it against the rules, I'd guess that the Croatians would have screamed bloody murder after the game, which they did not.
After reviewing it in slow motion, at the time the first pass was made the player to whom it was passed was even with the defenderno offside. At the time the pass was made to the second player he was even with the passer and the ball was always in front of him--no offside.
Good goal. Posts: 1, The Refs got this right. Iniesta was even with the 2nd to Last defender at the moment the ball was last touched by a teammate. The fact that a second teammate Navas was a player in an offside position PIOP is not a situation where he Navas must be sanctioned for offside as that teammate was not in the area of active play nor did he interfere with an opponent nor play the ball. That also did not apply.
The play continues and at the moment that Iniesta last touched the ball Navas was further than the ball to the goal line and hence was not in an offside position. Note, there is no such thing as in-line nor backward pass consideration in calling offside.
A ball can be played side-ways or even backward and the first player to play the ball can still be sanctioned for offside.
But once the ball was played by Iniesta, and Navas stayed behind the advancing ball, no offsides occurred. The things we do for our kids Utexbear2; said:. Posts: 15, I think, having watched for a while, that off-sides has become a lightning rod in the sport, so they call it less often.
Not unlick how we look at holding Everyone in the world - outside of 7 million Croats - got what they wanted: Italy and Spain going forward. Posts: 12, It appears that Croatia attempted an offside trap which failed, leaving Iniesta and Navas wide open. Phantom: Disagree completely. You imply that referees are not applying the Laws equitably and that is simply not the case here. The City manager was angry that Everton's first goal was not ruled out for offside and also that Jesus Navas did not win a penalty in the second half.
The Spaniard went down in the box under a challenge from Kevin Mirallas in the 70th minute, but play continued. At the end of the first half they scored a goal that was absolutely offside, we should have had a clear penalty and we had two clear chances to score. He found himself unmarked at the far post from a fabulous Francesco Totti diagonal pass and forced Joe Hart into a fine save. First, they were playing a very high defensive line, which seemed peculiar against the intelligent movement of Totti and the sheer pace of Gervinho in behind, the combination that Roma depend upon for so many of their attacks.
In the reverse fixture, Roma had scored through a quick, direct break from Totti, essentially exploiting the space created by his own movement and City were again vulnerable to that move. New, comments. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. This offside, though, looks like the linesman got it right. What do you think? Loading comments
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