It means a draw at the end of regulation. If you lose in PKs, you technically draw, but don't advance.
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I couldn’t believe Lukaku was only 33, feel like I was watching him in the premier league a lifetime ago.
Doku scares the crap out of me.
Intention has nothing to do with it.
It’s under the “Serious Foul Play” section in Law 12.
Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.
I don’t agree with the call but I don’t think it’s terrible on its own. In the context of the game earlier I don’t think it makes sense.
I don’t know anything about the ref yesterday but even good refs can lose control of games when one team wants to be crazy physical. Frankly we see it sometimes with TJ’s teams.
By the letter of the law, there should be about 12-15 red cards per game.
Give me another example of one that should have been one in that game?
Leg injuries are a real problem in soccer and contacting the legs and ankles has always been extremely dangerous.
So are concussions, yet contact to the head is only a foul.
Again, red cards can be given for contact to a head, give me an example of one you think should have been.
I just think this is so awesome and I'm not even a fan of soccer. It's great that people from all over the world will leave here with a positive experience in our country--something that a few Americans can/should learn from
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This is pretty great. The end with the horses hit me in some sort of way.
That describes Balogun's challenger as well. So both should have been shown the red card. My biggest problem with the red card is the full next game penalty. That's just stupid and unreasonable. It should be for the rest of the current game (or maybe the first half of the next if the foul happens in the second half), and after that, if the league thinks the foul was egregious or dangerous, only then would a suspension be in order.
Any time two people try to play a header and hit each other's heads. By the letter of the law, they are challenging for the ball, just like Balogun and his challenger last night, so they both should get red cards.
They were both playing the ball. Yes. That's the same as two people playing the ball at the same time.
People say the weirdest things with such confidence, by rule any time two players' heads come together on a challenge it's a double red? What are we doing here?
