FIFA World Cup 2026

[Gregmal]

Never been a big soccer fan, but still trying to watch, and holy shit this offsides stuff in soccer is the stupidest rule ever. Ruining an otherwise exciting Portugal Croatia game. Like you really can’t have a step on the other teams defender? No wonder every game is 1-0 or 2-1. How lame 

Edited 3 hours ago by Gregmal

[LC]

Problem is if you get rid of offsides everyone just keeps a player out there to cherry pick and it screws up the whole game. 

[Gregmal]

Idk, hard to see how you screw up a game more than we just saw. That was pitiful. Totally ruined what could've been a classic. If someone wants to hang back, put a defender on em, plain and simple. Such a dumb rule. 

 

[Spekulatius]

1 hour ago, LC said:

Problem is if you get rid of offsides everyone just keeps a player out there to cherry pick and it screws up the whole game. 

You can’t get rid of the offside as it screws ups the game or more specifically how it’s played in the space. The cameras available now have made the judgment extremely precise and that alone makes the offsite trap a major gamechanger. You see now the defense teams relying on this swarming in perfect line formation. The same thing was done before the cameras were available but it was risky for defending team to rely on it, because the line referee may not be able to determine close offsite cases and let the play continue or give the goal.

 

Its useless to complain and remember before we had many cases of questionable decision like Maradonas god‘s hand or the Wembley goal that wasn’t.

 

So Croatia had bad luck, but the referee clearly made the right decision.