How Was This Offside???

[webmaster]

Irans goal was not offside and most of you experts didnt even see it. Here is the proof.

Please share so people know FIFA is the most corrupt organization.

[Shahin K]

Here’s what happened:

• Egypt’s goalkeeper, Mostafa Shobier, had rushed well off his goal line during the scramble.
• That meant he was not one of the last two Egyptian players closest to the goal.
• The offside line was therefore set by the second-last Egyptian player, not by the defender standing nearest the goal line.
• Iran’s Shoja Khalilzadeh was just ahead of that second-last opponent when the shot that led to the rebound was taken. Because the ball merely rebounded (it wasn’t deliberately played by an Egyptian defender), the offside was not reset. VAR confirmed the offside by a very small margin.

anyway I am glad this madarjende did not score for Iran

[webmaster]

^ please go watch the game again I just did. It was not offside eventhough I agrre about Shoja. But lets be fair

[webmaster]

The keeper was way outplaced in the box so the last line of defence was the defender and not the keeper anymore. So Shoja was way onside
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[Damavand]

I have been watching football for more than fifty years and I had never heard of such a rule that you need 2 players ahead for you to be considered onside.

Like I said in another thread, FIFA pulls these rules out of their rear end to make sure teams like Iran do not get far in the tournament.

[webmaster]

Lets say the goal keeper comes to join the attack in a corner and one defender stays back close to the goal so if any player get the ball before the defender, it is on side as the defender is now the goal keeper now.

So if THE PLAYER AHEAD OF THE DEFENDER scores from far away and the defender cannot defend it it is a goal. Dont confuse yourselves by listening to FIFA.

[webmaster]

One more thing is that when any of the defending team passes or touched the ball to and before the striker, the offside rule is eliminated.

The pass to shoja came off the keeper not from our players. So 100% goal. We have seen so many goals that defenders pass to strikers by mistake and their goals are always allowed even in an offside position.

Their goal keeper touched the ball before Shoja and gave it to him, so it is a goal.