Sorry, didn't see a thread...hope you don't mind that I started one. In the 70th minute or so, Kuipers calls a debatable penalty on Croatia. The GK saves the PK, but he was a MILE off his line and the refs let it go. Really, don't think I've ever seen much worse. If anyone has a pic, please post.
Debatable ?!?!?! the defender got shoved from behind into Silva by another spanish player , should've been a foul FOR Croatia not a PK. Also there was a clear foul from Ramos which should've resulted in a Penalty before this incident , yet the Ref and his assistant couldn't spot it even though he was standing right in front of it..
MassRef said to go ahead and start them. Here are three I just took. Looks roughly 2.5-3 yards off his line. Looks like whoever said "The mandatory caution will mean it gets called even less" was spot on.
Yes, the keeper movement was very significant. One has to wonder if Kuipers was having second thoughts about the call itself.
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Never ever penalty in a million years. Yet everyone is complaining about Subasic coming off his line to early.
In all seriousness, when was the last time anyone has ever seen a PK retaken for keeper coming off his line? In all my years of watching European soccer and high level international soccer, I don't recall that call ever being made. I'm not saying that it should'nt have been retaken, it should have. It's just that according to history you shouldn't expect that call to be made.
Because we like to talk about interesting and unique calls on here, and there's nothing gained in simply bashing a bad call. The fact that the GK came crazy off his line and it wasn't re-taken is an interesting talking point, the weak PK call, less so.
Not expecting it necessarily, because as you say it is extremely rare, but that looked like it was more egregious than is normally allowed. It will probably take a lot more than that with the mandatory caution now, though.
Wrong decision by giving the penalty to Spain. The penalty should be repeated. Croatian goalkeeper went out of the line too early. Croatian players entered in the area of 16 meters too early. Jedvaj cleared the ball, because he had advantage in steps. The referee didn't wanted to repeat the penalty, because he knew that he made injustice with this penalty. First mistake removes the second mistake. Good decision was by not giving the penalty for Croatia during Pjaca's lets say diving and late fall.
http://www.espnfc.us/european-champ...alty-should-have-been-retaken-uefa-refs-chief Ref chiefs say penalty should have been retaken.