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Slashman X
Tbf, he's (making it look like he's) trying to do the whole knock-it-to-one-side-of-the-defender-then-run-the-other-side-thing. But in all fairness, whether you agree with the ruling (which I usually don't), 99 times out of 100 obstruction like that is given as a free kick. No idea why the ref booked him
Flash.
Carroll.
VP.
Ninja
Yeah, I agree. It's definitely obstruction, the ref got it wrong.
But it's very cynical by Balotelli, which is why I'm glad he got nothing for it.
I don't think Balotelli helps himself by the fact that he goes down absolutely ridiculously, it's actual comical the way he throws his arms around and I remember seeing that on MOTD last night and thinking he'd dived from the angle the referee had (behind the incident) and not seeing what had actually happened until that angle was shown.
That's almost certainly the reason he was booked.
EDIT: I've just sat watching Balotelli's hand movements for like 2 minutes straight. They're hilarious.
Carroll.
VP.
And how exactly is Luiz meant to get out of the way?
Slashman X
By not stepping into him, for one
Ninja
Do you ever actually read what I say, or do you just deliberately get the wrong end of the stick?
VP.
A step?
Slashman X
He clearly steps over to his right, you can see it as Cole runs past him
VP.
I know what you meant but its hardly a step, he could never have moved completely out of the way anyway so there was always gonna be a collision.
Slashman X
Yeah, and 99 times out of 100 that's given as a foul to the forward (the amount of times Kompany has been punished for it
VP.
As i said above, is neither imo. Its no different to when a defender blatantly obstructs a striker to allow the ball out for a goal kick, should be a foul but never ever is as refs are fucking stupid.
KEZ_7
The difference being, when defenders shepherd it out they tend to be facing in the ball between it and the striker, thus they are in 'control' or the ball, whether or not they touch it. The alternate would be having to let the attacker run around you and get the ball again before tackling them.
A block like the Luiz one is more of a foul but I do think Balotelli ran for the foul rather than running and being fouled
VP.
Only if the ball is in playing distance, which it very rarely is.
VP.
The Platypus
jumberto
jumberto
I keep doing it as well, think it should come up with 'are you sure you want to report this post?' or whatever.
Slashman X
Justicar
So cringy, but I think we all adapt our own accent/speech pattern to be better understood by non-native speakers in common speech.
Obtuse
It's not shoulder to shoulder but rather Luiz leans into Balotelli's front and thus commits the foul.
Flash.
Football's gone mad.
Jamieandhisego
Telegram Sam
Flash.
The defenders one is even better.
Poe
rossiheslopi
And how in the bluest of blue fucks is Gareth Bale a defender nowadays?!
Eric Portapotty