Bizarre VAR Disallowed Goal in Rennes game


Agree - hardly like anyone is going to use that tactic as a ploy to confuse the opposition.
Yep it's daft and assumedly is just a weird quirk that they didn't expect to happen. I get why you can't take two touches from a freekick, I get why the post can't act as a player. But how hard is it to just add a little note to the rule to say if it's from a direct freekick and the ball comes off the post the taker can then have a touch.

To be honest I'd allow it for pens too, because no one is going to choose to deliberately play it off the post, and if they do and pull it off then fair play let them have it.
 
I’d guess the ref didn’t realise but disallowed it after a word in his ear from the var team. I wouldn’t blame the ref for that. Looks like none of the defending players appealed. It’s the rules of the game but a particular situation that very rarely occurs. Would be a good one for “You’re the Ref”.
 
Presume when the ball hit the bar, the ref didn't twig on that the player who kicked it was the same one who hit the rebound. A mistake, but maybe he can be forgiven as the circumstances were a little unusual.
 
I always think it’s a bit crazy when people spend so much time talking about and watching football and don’t know about laws like this.
Most people would know the rule but the situation is so unusual it’s easy to miss.
 
How? Do you think a player can take a touch from a free kick and keep going with the ball?
Never really thought about it. It can happen with penalties when the taker is the furthest man forward but from a free kick the ball has to pass 10 to 15 players to get back to the taker. Thinking back it’s obviously really 🤷‍♂️
 
A penalty is just a direct free kick taken from inside the box so all the same rules apply. And you can be offside from a penalty if you’re standing at the side of the box but nearer to the goal line than the kicker, and the ball hits the post and comes out to you and you play it.
 
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I think the free kick taker realises after he done it. He kind of stops playing and has a word with the ref. Doesn’t appear to celebrate either as he will know what’s coming.
 
I have a vague memory of John MacPhail having one disallowed at York that hit the post or bar and he put the rebound in without anyone else touching it.
It was at Roker park, Marco was on a hat trick but Mcphail wouldn’t let him take it. To say we were pissed off when he went for the rebound would be putting it mildly
 

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