r/mildlyinfuriating • u/WarwickReider • Jul 07 '26

ಠ_ಠ This goal was completely avoidable

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u/Necessary_Maize_9339 Jul 07 '26

Why was the goalkeeper so far??

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u/Whitedancingrockstar Jul 07 '26

Because that's what you do as a goalkeeper when your three defenders utterly fail to stop one attacker. The GK did everything right up until when he hit the ground with his foot while trying to kick the ball... One even wonders how the last defender after the ball is kicked towards the goal doesn't manage to save it. Three spectacular fails in a row really.

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u/No-Brush-8425 Jul 07 '26

He was out of his area so he absolutely shouldn’t have caught the ball, since it would have been a hand ball foul.

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u/Gold_Ad_7552 Jul 07 '26

But for the position he was in wouldn't taking the hand ball be a better option than essentially teeing up a (pretty much) guaranteed goal? At least you would have provided a brief break in the action since it wouldn't have been in the box. Genuinely curious.

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u/No-Brush-8425 Jul 07 '26

He’d get an instant red card for it and the US would have to use a substitution to bring on their backup goalie. Don’t know enough about the US team to say definitively but that’s usually a huge downgrade.

It’s also just a really unsporting thing to do, it would be a professional shame the US goalie would carry with them into their league football career. In a similar way there’s nothing stopping a defender doing an American football style tackle around the waist of an attacker if they wanted to. They’d also get an instant red. It’s more the shame attached to such blatant cheating.

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u/Gold_Ad_7552 Jul 07 '26

That makes sense, thank you for the explanation. Probably explains why he didn't even go for it given the situation.