During extra time, it looked as though Ferran Torres had scored a goal that would have brought Spain’s lead to two and sealed a victory.<\/p>\n
It was the second goal disallowed for Spain, this time for offside.<\/p>\n
So what is the offside rule?<\/p>\n
It’s an infamous question asked by millions of football newbies every tournament.<\/p>\n
If you’ve jumped on the World Cup bandwagon and found yourself trying to wrap your head around this section of the rule book, we’re here to help.<\/p>\n
Here’s a quick breakdown of the rule.<\/p>\n
The offside rule aims to prevent players from lingering next to the opponent’s net to wait for a pass.<\/p>\n
It forces teams to build up play carefully and use complex tactics to score goals.<\/p>\n
Without the rule, teams would be incentivised to constantly launch long balls, making the game less dynamic.<\/p>\n
If a player is called for an offside offence, the referee will stop the play and award an indirect free kick to the opposing team.<\/p>\n
The free kick is taken from the spot where the offside player had been located when their teammate passed them the ball.<\/p>\n
A player is in an offside position if:<\/p>\n
However, an offside player is only penalised if they become involved in play.<\/p>\n
And there’s no offside offence if a player receives the ball directly from an opposition player, a goal kick, a throw-in or a corner kick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During extra time, it looked as though Ferran Torres had scored a goal that would have brought Spain’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-534463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}