Analysis of Controversial Football Goal

Here was a situation

where Argentina scored a 2 1 goal against England. So what happened here was

that Spence challenged Messi for the ball and he actually got the ball first and

then got hurt and Messi got the ball and made an

assist and then Argentina scored.

So this is a very talked about

situation and people say this should have been a foul and therefore not a goal.

So when you look at the situation Spence got the ball first and

then you need to see if there was contact with Messi and there was

actually contact between his foot and Messi's studs. But how was the contact?

The contact occurred as Messi jumped over

his foot and then Spence actually raised his own foot against Messi's studs.

So this is not Messi's studs hitting Spence's foot.

It is Spence's foot hitting Messi's studs because he raised

his own foot against Messi's studs.

This is not a foul

by Messi and then Spence accidentally twisted his own ankle

and that's why he was injured. It is not because of Messi.

His opposite ankle was twisted as he made his tackle here and it

was not because of Messi.

So as Messi jumped over him no foul

was committed and then there was accidental contact made by Spence.

So this is normal football contact.

It is not a foul and the goal was correctly allowed here despite there

being contact between the players.