I was of the understanding that if a ball is played to a player in an offside position even though the ball is subsequently deflected into the attackers path by the opposition, it is still offside. It is being heavily discussed on Spanish tv and there seems to be two opinions. Obviously VAR allowed the goal but I’m confused. Am I becoming a girlie or have the offside rules changed again?
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Same as if you come back from being offside & the opposition player then touches it, you can then challenge that player, win the ball & score - even though you were 10 yards offside just seconds before.
Laws that seem to have been amended without the general public knowing.....until it happens in a televised match & is debated widely.....and then the officials roll out Law 31.6 subsection 10 and show its all there in black & white.
The key to this is if the ball is last played 'deliberately' by an opposition player then the attacking player in an otherwise offside position would be played onside. A deflection is not playing the ball 'deliberately' - I haven't seen the game but if it was a deflection and not a deliberate playing of the ball by the defender then that does not play the attacking player onside.
That sounds like a deliberate attempt by the defender to play the ball - in which case Mbappe would be played onside.
Not what the laws of the game say - it is when the player becomes active. It may be heading in his direction when in an offside position but he is only deemed offside if he becomes active. If before becoming active it is deliberately played by a defender then the attacker cannot be offside.
As you may remember, an incident of some similar nature happened between Man City and Aston Villa last season involving Mings, Rodri and eventually Bernardo Silva scoring. They changed the law after this to clarify the goal would now not have stood.
They’ve made the law of offside so unnecessarily complex that officials struggle with it and have their own interpretations. This is poor and only will allow for such confusing situations to occur often where people will have differing opinions of whether it’s offside or not.
I don’t know why they can’t make it simple by having ‘if a player is in an offside position when the ball is played, and either interferes with play or gains an advantage through possession of the ball, whether it is from a team mate or an opposition player, playing the ball both deliberately or not, the said player is offside.’
There needs to be very clear laws and right now, it isn’t so clear.
So you are now saying that they've changed the law back (as no one remembered it changing in the first place and I've seen many instances where the attacker is immediately flagged offside when coming back to challenge a defender) because it was too complicated.
Why do I sense of arse covering somewhere along the line here.
He was offside when the ball was played forward, has gained a clear advantage by being offside, and regardless that it then touched Garcia, i think it should still be given offside.
If Mbappe wasn't offside and clear of Garcia then maybe he doesn't need to make a desperate lunge to try and get the ball. But he did, deflected it, and then that makes mbappe suddenly onside. Ridiculous.
For some years now, if a player in an offside position receives the ball, having been deliberately played last by an opposing defender, then no offence of offside has occurred. If however, the same opponent has not deliberately played the ball (it inadvertantly touches him), then the forward is adjudged to be offside.
The Mings incident was when he chested down the ball, with a player behind him in an offside position. Mings was slow in controlling the ball and the offending offside forward ran back from an offside position to win the ball back from Mings and subsequently score; the goal was allowed. Subsequently the law was tweaked to disallow such a goal, on the basis that Mings had not deliberately played the ball at that stage (still trying to control it). Therefore that incident was not covered by the "deliberately played" scenario that covers that previously-described offside incident.
ridiculous decision /ruling / law or whatever it is
Your post reminds me of the often asked question "can a player be offside if the ball is played backwards?" Yes, is the answer.
He said that the ref was correct to award the goal under the current laws....but also stated that he did not like the law itself.