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Media Kairat Almaty wins an indirect free kick because Schmeichel touched the ball with his hands after a back pass

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u/FearlessResult 1d ago

Pretty good price to pay… that’s a certain goal if he doesn’t, a non GK gets a straight red there

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u/RalphDaGod 1d ago

Well if he would have hit it before the bounce or right after, which he had plenty time to do, no problem there. Also if the defender doesn’t play a shit awkward pass to his goalie is probably the best route to go in future.

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u/ThemosttrustedFries 1d ago

Honestly indirect free kicks are a total waste most of the time because the players are just stacked in the goal making it almost impossible to scorer anyway.

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u/ToGGo1907 1d ago

Ask Schalke fans. They also thought it was impossible.

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u/ltplummer96 1d ago

Wow, I even took the day off to try and be happier :(

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u/Standingonachair 1d ago

It is one of the absolute best things left from "old" football.

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u/afito 1d ago

They're only a waste because they're one of the last remnants of amateur anarchy. Since they pretty much never happen, nobody has a plan. Defenders just crowd it and attacks either cunt it at the goal or make a sidepass and the other player then cunts it. If they were to be used more commonly teams would actually put an effort in to make something off it.

Field hockeys penalty corners are a pretty good comparison to look at and as those are very common they have proper routines and everything and are pretty much the most dangerous attacking situation in the sport.

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u/giraffeman3705 23h ago

It's an indirect kick so the first kicker cannot score the goal. He has to side pass it to someone first which is why there are like 4 guys on the right... Try to add some ambiguity into who he will pass it to. But they basically always choose to touch it and give it straight to the guy right next to the kicker lol

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u/afito 22h ago

Indirect freekick can always be taken with the minimal layoff the second before the kick, they have been legally taken as almost direct for decades.

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u/Flayer723 1d ago

I've seen plenty scored back in the day, pure power usually wins tho, not attempted placement like this one.

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u/TheDuhhh 23h ago

Roberto Carlos would like a word with you

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u/somethingnotcringe1 1d ago

Might be wrong but it only has to hit someone on the way through to count doesn't it? May as well just smash it from the deadball and hope it deflects in off someone than knocking it to a teammate and him being charged at by basically the whole opposition.

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u/JAGUARENSTEIN 1d ago

I remember back in the days, I think I was 10 or 11 and had a game with another team in national cup (was still playing on mini field) and I scored 4 of them in one game by doing exactly what you were saying. Just smashed the ball with no tactic in mind, just hoping for deflection from anyone. Can't recall though why there were indirect free kicks (maybe all of them were by the rules of mini football back then) because all of them were from around 20 meters away and definately were indirect ones.

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u/IncurableHam 1d ago

If they did the 3 yard pass to the guy on the back post then they would've had an easy goal

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u/xenon2456 1d ago

he was preventing a own goal

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u/Lonevarg_7 20h ago

What an terrible attempt by taking several steps before shooting.

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u/Nipso 23h ago

What are you on about?

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u/Oggie243 1d ago

That's not an indirect free though it has to be a deliberate back pass.

If that was deliberate McGregors a clown

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u/laxrulz777 1d ago

It doesn't have to be a deliberate back pass in the sense you mean. It has to be "deliberately kicked to them". He was obviously playing the ball with his foot (kicked and deliberate) and there was nobody else he was kicking to and he wasn't trying to clear it out/over. So it qualifies. It doesn't have to be a good pass to be a foul here

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u/Oggie243 23h ago

Thats not the sense I mean though. What he's done here isn't a deliberate pass to the goalkeeper.

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u/chicken_nugget94 13h ago

But its still against the rules because he intended to kick it, if another player had volleyed it against him and it had gone back to the keeper then that would have been allowed

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u/BaoJinyang 1d ago

That’s just not the rules of football. 

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u/Eroica_Pavane 1d ago

Eh the backpass rule originally is to prevent time wasting not to punish misplayed passes.

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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan 22h ago

I'm pretty sure it's because the keeper touching the ball in this situation is not a sending off offence. Hope that helped.

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u/Content_Warning8794 1d ago

Great play by nr. 42!