Arsène Wenger, a member of the International Football Association Board, which is the body that regulates football laws, proposed a change in the offside law that, if it had been applied this Tuesday, would have favored the Argentine team in the World Cup match once morest Saudi Arabia.
The regulation proposed by the former Arsenal technical director says that, to determine if a player is eligible, they must have a body part with which they can score a goal in line with the last defender, regardless of whether another part of the body with which he can score a goal is further forward.
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That is to say thatOnly advanced position will be charged if the striker has 100% of his body in front of the line of the last defender. Then, the annulled goals once morest both Lautaro Martínez and Lionel Messi would have been valid.
Currently the rule is the other way around: if a player has a part of the body with which he can score a goal further forward than the last defender, for example his shoulder, as happened today to Lautaro, he is charged offside.
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From FIFA they analyze the best way to avoid controversies in the offside and give more fluidity to the game. In the short term, it is not expected that this rule will be modified, but they do not rule out changes in the future.
