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>>Interesting. I'm not a soccer scholar, but that goal by Forest (I think it was the third goal shown in the series) - why wasn't the Forest player offside? I thought if you took a pass while you were past all the opposing players, that it was offside. There must be part of the rule I'm not familiar with.
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>I just looked up the first one. After you said looked up the last.
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>You're talking about old offside rule. There're active and passive offside positions with new (new= at least ten years... :) ) offside rule. He is in passive offside because he didn't touched the ball, and his teammate shooted the ball directly for goal. If he touched the ball of his teammate kicked the ball for give him, it would be offside..
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>That's sophisticated. Because sometimes referee can be think that as a pass or shoot. There's a big grey area... :)
I'm not sure we're talking about the same goal. On the video the first goal is the free one scored by the Leicester goalie. The second is the free kick by Leicester. The third one is a pass by the Forest player to another Forest player who scores. That (the third one) is the one I'm talking about. I'm not sure about passive and active offsides, but it looks like the ball was passed to the Forest player who was past all the Leicester players. Is that the 'passive' one you're talking about? Like I said, soccer is not my area of expertise, and I don't really understand why that isn't offside.
