The Danish anger at the disallowed goal is understandable. Andersen by a few millimeters, just two minutes before he took the penalty that doomed his collision Germany. The VAR intervened in both actions and both in favor of the locals. If the Danish right-back had worn a 38 instead of a 42, well, maybe we’d be talking about a different result today, who knows.
The anger of the Nordics, however, does not mean that the goal was wrongly disallowed. By millimeters but yes, the Dane was offside. Regulation in hand, he was earlier than the last German defender. And it’s offside. Assuming, we must assume yes, that the line thrown by the computer and the digitization of the image of the participating players is correct.
Should the rule be made more flexible? Some argue that a margin as small as the toe of the boot does not give the striker an advantage. And that offside should not be called when he is ahead, but when he is, for example, 20 centimeters ahead. Will it change anything? Nope. Because on the day that instead of 20 centimeters ahead we were 21 centimeters ahead, we were in the same position.
The standard, with its flaws, is what it is. It is understandable (any fan is if he puts himself in the situation of the Danes or if he visualizes an action in which his team is hurt) the discomfort of Denmark. But either we change the offside rule or we have to accept it as it is.
Arsene Wenger, The ideologue of some of the major changes in the regulations in recent years, defends that offside is lost whenever any part of the striker’s body is behind the defender marking the line. In this theory, the purpose of Andersen hope to get on the scoreboard. This is an option. But for now, it’s just that, an alternative.
And watch out, next year semi-automatic offside is upon us League. And we’re starting to see goals disallowed because of the extra millimeters that ignited the Danes on Saturday. Depending on which games happen, the controversy will last less than nothing. If this happens in a Classic… Wenger He was rubbing his hands.
Source: La Verdad
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