Men's Football UEFA European Championship 2020

[Agger 1,662]

Guess that was the new hands rules in action.

[merlinsbeard 22]

Well I understand staying in defence and looking for counterattacks against Italy but I think we overdid it with the fear of losing the first game. We need to have better counterattacks in the second half. Also I also think it was a penalty, it is a shame the hand rule is still not clear after 150 years of football history. They should stop changing it it.

[Federer91 2,793]

Haven't see such a tight fortress since the last season of Vikings  A tennis ball from Djokovic/Nadal couldn't pass in the front goal-line space.

[Agger 1,662]

Just now, merlinsbeard said:

Well I understand staying in defence and looking for counterattacks against Italy but I think we overdid it with the fear of losing the first game. We need to have better counterattacks in the second half. Also I also think it was a penalty, it is a shame the hand rule is still not clear after 150 years of football history. They should stop changing it it.

After VAR changing it is the only right thing to do or we'll keep on seeing a ton of random penalties. I'm happy!

[Vektor 3,326]

What is even a handball at this point in football? 

[heywoodu 15,135]

Good thing they didn't give a penalty to Turkey after 40 minutes or so for some nonsense trip and Italy a few minutes later for some Italian shooting the ball against a Turkish arm. That'd have set an annoying precendence for the whole tournament.

 

At least I didn't see the referee go to a screen, instead he just listened to the VAR it seems. Finally some improvement in football's incredibly botched VAR system?  

[hckošice 14,822]

3 minutes ago, Vektor said:

What is even a handball at this point in football? 

ask Thiery Henry and the Irish

[hckošice 14,822]

must be the first ever offside immediately from corner in the history

[Dunadan 1,103]

13 minutes ago, Agger said:

After VAR changing it is the only right thing to do or we'll keep on seeing a ton of random penalties. I'm happy!

Well, now defenders know that they can occupy a lot of space with large arms to intercept crosses and will exploit this rule, they'll change it back soon. This kind of handball has always been punished, way before VAR.

[Monzanator 4,499]

Turkey were sitting too deep. Own goal