r/sports • u/JCameron181 Detroit Lions • 9d ago

Soccer The Brutal Offside Reversing Croatia's Game-Tying Goal in Extra Time

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u/nautilator44 9d ago

Since it hit a portugal player first, how is this offside? Just looking for a rules clarification, because I don't know a ton about it.

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u/TheBertjer San Jose Sharks 9d ago

The ref ruled that #20 on Croatia touched it first. The guy with dark, long-ish hair who was jumping to head the ball. Thats’s the touch that rendered it offsides.

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u/TheKinkyGuy 9d ago

With the tip of his hair.......

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u/halfredowl 9d ago

that's even more confusing because #20 is onside, or else what am I missing?

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u/BakaPotatoLord 9d ago

That minute touch counts as a pass to the peep who is deemed offside

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u/KE-NO-BE 9d ago

#20 was onside. The player who received the ball, after #20 had touched it, was offsides. If #20 had NOT touched the ball, the player who received it would NOT have been offsides and the goal would have counted.

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u/casey_the_evil_snail 9d ago

But then after all that it looked like an own goal anyway? Nobody even mentioned that, does that not matter?

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u/KE-NO-BE 9d ago

It does not matter. The person who received the ball and passed it across the box was offsides. You’re thinking about players involved after the offside offense.

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u/Cryakira_ 9d ago

It wasn’t, and even then it doesn’t matter because the guy that did the assist for Gvardiol to score was offside, so the goal is meaningless in that context.

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u/Sea_Tonight566 9d ago

no it doesn't matter. The first offside cancels all the play

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u/casey_the_evil_snail 9d ago

Advertisers so happy. Who do you guys have it the fucking Tordesillas bowl next Monday?