🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on England’s equalizer through Bellingham against Norway should not have stood:
“I don’t care if it’s the 1st minute or the 90th minute. The laws are the laws. If the ball hits a camera cable and the trajectory changes, that is outside interference. The referee is supposed to stop play immediately.”
“People keep talking about Bellingham’s finish. Fine. It was a good finish. But the question is: should the attack have even continued? According to the rules, no.”
“Football cannot become a game where we ignore the law because the goal looks spectacular. If Norway scored the same goal against England, there would be outrage everywhere.”
“You cannot tell players to respect the Laws of the Game and then ignore them when it’s convenient. If the ball was affected by the cable, the correct restart is a dropped ball. No attack. No equalizer. No debate.”
Hard to feel like Norway haven't been completely hard done by. Between conceding a goal that touched the skycam, to having a goal ruled out for a 50/50 challenge in the box, to awarding Pickford a foul after he bashed into his own teammate...some very bizarre decisions today.
Unironically haaland has the potential to completely change soccer and inspire the future generation to stop the flopping and just play the game like men