doolochfox
Active Member
It was one of those penalty decisions that you approve of if they're for your team and disapprove of if they're not. We've had a few of them in our favour over recent seasons.
Any defender that sticks out their leg like that is being rather foolish and I was surprised to see someone of Fuch's experience doing it.
For me, it is simple. If the player runs into the leg and goes over, it's a penalty. If they jump over the leg and go over, it isn't. From what I've seen, there was contact so it should have been given.
The quality of 'dive' that typically accompanies the contact is irrelevant. Our best two players both enjoy a 'dive' when circumstances permit (Norwich away being a recent example) so we can hardly call opponents that do the same.
On this you are mistaken. Running over a leg is not a valid claim for a penalty, or even a foul. A leg planted in time can be deemed obstruction at worst. Even Fuchs' dangled leg would have not been responsible for the subsequent leap or leg separation.
It was a dive, and as you said we are not immune from it.
On a similar note, if a player sets himself for a cross, then the keeper can't wipe them out.