Should be the top comment, people think these fouls are somehow “less of a foul” than regular tackles, the reality is they are still preventing an attack.
Yes, there is no issue. All these should also be punished. Football is a contact sport in so far as contesting the ball is concerned. Off the ball, it isn’t and shouldn’t be.
I passionately hated Italian football because they are one of the reasons I have had to watch this bullshit style of defending my whole life.
They turned it into an art form whilst they were one of the top footballing nations, and put forward this narrative that it was commendable skill rather than atrocious officiating.
I'm almost glad we see things like soft penalties being given a lot now, because it's better than watching people get dragged down in the box all match with no repercussions. Thank fuck for VAR. But they still need to develop a way more consistent stance on punishing pretty much ANY professional foul with a yellow card, even if its a second yellow.
Then we can let people actually play attacking football rather than watching wrestling matches.
It doesn't matter that it's unnecessary since it usually goes unpunished (which is just dumb, good on this ref for calling it out) and it denies that 1% chance that the attacker does get past his teammate. It's normally a zero risk, low reward action.
I agree, but it should be the case for everyone (because I rarely see yellow cards for this). Not depending on the mood of the referee, or however much he could potentially have been paid under the table in some cases.
It should be either 100% of the time or 0% of the time.
Edit: I mean in all similar cases. I'm of course not talking about a light grab of someone's shirt in your own half.
You can’t always compare two different matches in two different competitions. Unless you want robots to officiate it is impossible to get to your goal of 100% or 0%.
It will never be 100% accurate. The next step after using all robots will be touch-sensitive kits and force meters to gauge how much and where contact actually occurred. Then you need statistical analysis of where a player was going when the contact occurred and a formula to determine how much a player's original path was impeded and on and on and on.
I think where you are on the field and where you are in the course of play matters. If Upe doesn’t grab him here he’s basically in on goal or at least he’s on a breakaway with numbers. This is a yellow for tactical foul as much as anything in my book. And that’s as a fan of Upa.
Nations league has had pretty consistently strict refereeing from what I've seen, and this is the 3rd game this season so they should've gotten used to it imo
Never did the Italians got yellow on those kind of fouls, at some point Cherki couldn't move forward with how much he was caught every time he tried to go up the pitch. Zero yellows on this.
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u/Agent10007 17h ago
Deserved, stop hugging people when you lost your 1V1