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Rule the confusion over Robin Gosens!
The 107th national team debutant with national coach Joachim Löw showed an attractive performance in his first appearance with the eagle on his chest.
The left-back of Atalanta Bergamo from the Italian first division prepared, among other things, Timo Werner’s first goal in the 1-1 start of the Nations League against Spain. But even he couldn’t stop the Spaniards from drawing in the sixth minute of injury time, then revealed a curious gap in knowledge.
Refreshingly honest, he admitted that he’s not up to speed with the current offside rule. He had “learned something new again” and suspected he was “out of the game,” the 26-year-old told me. ZDF. What happened?
Gosens had tried in vain to avoid a cross into the penalty area and straddled the goal. The ball landed after a header to completely free José Gaya, who completed the final score 1: 1. This would have been out of play, had Gosens not been behind the touch line. He was not aware that, according to the rule, he can also pick up the offside from off the field.
In the official rules of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) it says: “A player of the defending team who leaves the field of play without the permission of the referee is considered to be on the goal line or on the side line for the purposes of the offside rule until the game is interrupted the next time or the defending team has played the ball towards the center line and the ball has left the defending team’s penalty area. If the player intentionally leaves the field of play, it will be cautioned the next time play is stopped. “
Per Mertesacker: “You have to know that”
In this case, according to the regulations, Gosens was considered to be at the finish line and therefore canceled the offside.
“You have to know that as a professional footballer,” was the prompt response of former national player Per Mertesacker, who made his first appearance as ZDFExpert had. The 35-year-old did not want to go to court too hard with the newcomer. Because: “In the end nothing would have changed, I was lying there and I couldn’t escape.”
And so the German team lost their first victory against Spain since August 16, 2000, when Mehmet Scholl and Alexander Zickler scored a double in a 4-1 victory in Hannover.
“It was a roller coaster of emotions. I’m really at the starting point that in the end we got such a clean sheet,” Gosens said, expressing his anger accordingly.
But despite all the frustration, the child prodigy came to a positive conclusion. “It was a great night for me, I am very happy to have been able to celebrate my debut,” he said.
And even if Gosens couldn’t celebrate all three points at the end, he’s at least richer in terms of control technology.
