UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [11th - 13th March 2025]

and iirc i think that double kick rule came in after that Henry to Pires pen that they did back in the day, was to stop that **** rather than a players standing leg grazing the ball
 
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Well sometimes, the standing leg can slide in front of the kicking leg so much that the kicking leg hits the ball into the standing leg, causing a massive deflection and top spin and dip, which can massively wrong foot and deceive the goalkeeper, which is a bit unfair.
To be honest, I'm the interest of fair play, surely when slips occur on pens like these, clear and obvious slips, just surely at refs discretion call for a retake?
 
Based on the game today I'm a little more confident, Real can definitely be got at and our defence is pretty decent most of the time.
 
jaybee said:
Well sometimes, the standing leg can slide in front of the kicking leg so much that the kicking leg hits the ball into the standing leg, causing a massive deflection and top spin and dip, which can massively wrong foot and deceive the goalkeeper, which is a bit unfair.
To be honest, I'm the interest of fair play, surely when slips occur on pens like these, clear and obvious slips, just surely at refs discretion call for a retake?
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No absolutely, when its obvious like that fair enough, thats not cool for the GK. But like you said, a bit of common sense should have prevailed
 
There's no way they could go by noise on that double touch as the stadium would have been so loud. So it has to have been confirmed by visual analysis. I absolutely cannot see the ball move before his right foot strikes it. Pretty confident of that. So they must see the ball either move direction after his right foot hits it, in that it's hit the left foot and they can see that. Or - most likely - they believe the left foot was touching the ball (just) as his right foot also made main contact with it. I'm sorry but that is a brass balls decision to call that out in that short time frame so I'd like to hope they have some very, very good zoomed in different angle we are not seeing, in high speed footage.
I'm not seeing it.

Edit: pundits saying it hits the left standing foot just after his right foot hits it causing the ball flight to go up high into the net. Hmm. Dunno. That may be what happened but you can't give that without conclusive visual evidence surely?
 
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Trusty said:
and iirc i think that double kick rule came in after that Henry to Pires pen that they did back in the day, was to stop that **** rather than a players standing leg grazing the ball
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You sure about that? I seem to recall Messi was involved with a similar type of penalty while he was at Barcelona.
The difference being that was a pass to another player rather than the same player striking the ball twice in the same movement
 
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