Monday knockouts

[Amor de Cosmos]

Dumb choice. It'll likely cost the game.

[George C.]

Probably a kiss of death for the Swedes but that was Canada's big chance...

[Nesta]

Hedvig and the Angry Inch

[Kevin S]

What a leap. Great thinking to spring off from *behind* the line too.

[Patrick Thistle]

Blackstenius can't pass to save her life.

[Amor de Cosmos]

It was a good save, but not an especially good kick. A good yard inside the post and not particularly hard.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Nothing's working for Canada now, they lost the tiny bit of momentum they had before the PK.

[Diable Rouge]

Blackstenius can't pass to save her life.

As long as she can stick the ball between the sticks, they won't worry.

[Diable Rouge]

Offside overrules the penalty.

[Amor de Cosmos]

It's offside prior

[Patrick Thistle]

What?

So you can wrap a leg round your opponents leg and no punishment because there was an offside earlier. Still dangerous play, surely?

[Patrick Thistle]

Asllani is a decent player.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Quinn on. Won't make any difference.

[Snake Plissken]

Fucking hell, has anyone told the Canadians that the goal isn't thirty feet high?

[Patrick Thistle]

Who is the Canada boot supplier? Never seen so many slices.

[Amor de Cosmos]

This is their worst performance in some time.

[Ray de Galles]

More like the VARmen's World Cup, amirite eh?

[Amor de Cosmos]

That's it. Always the bridesmaids, and more was expected.

[Patrick Thistle]

That was actually quite an exciting finish to a game

[Patrick Thistle]

Was hoping Labbé would get the equaliser.

[Patrick Thistle]

More like the VARmen's World Cup, amirite eh?

Grooooooaaaaaaannnnnn

[Janik]

HT and NO VAR! (cue wild applause)

That aged badly.

[Janik]

So you can wrap a leg round your opponents leg and no punishment because there was an offside earlier. Still dangerous play, surely?

That is right, though. The play becomes dead from the point where the offside happened. Similar, in essence, to if the ball had gone over the byline and then been crossed and this was only spotted on replay. Or indeed if both sides commit a foul in succession, in which case you penalise the first offence, though you can card the second offender if their play merited that. Likewise, the ref could still have carded the Canadian defender for dangerous play, but she can't award the penalty.

[Patrick Thistle]

That's what I was alluding to. There was no card for a challenge designed to rip an opponent's knee apart.

Like, if VAR is going to rewind the clock back enough to rule out the penalty they should also be looking at the potential leg-breaker and telling the ref to consider penalising accordingly. Why are we only pursuing perfection when it comes to marginal offsides and not dangerous play?

Canada got the rub of VAR in this game with the gift of a penalty and then the gift of not a penalty and the inconsistency of application isn't making it feel less bent to me. Asllani was deliberately targeted first half and nothing was done about it.

[Janik]

OK, fair enough. It was a pretty nasty wraparound tackle, for sure. There was a genuine risk of injury there. Worthy of a yellow at least.