Birdy
Senior Member
Im at a loss, people at r/soccer calling it a stonewall pen, and those people usually aren`t big fans of RM, but for me as a RM-fan, its a joke decision and not a pen.
You see that stuff in every game, are we going to have 3-4 pens every game now?
Thing is that pulling is textbook penalty nowadays with the directives given to refs.
The problem with this is pretty obvious, and I can make it crystal clear for people pretending it's ok to give that penalty:
Pens are 0.75 on xG, which means they go in 7.5 times out of 10, and if a good PK taker takes it this can become 0.9 or more.
So you are handing practically the team awarded a pen most of the times a goal.
Now, think of the Lenglet-Ramos incident, and let's say Lenglet never pulls Ramos' shirt.
Ramos most likely does not even reach the ball. And even if he reaches it, his header from that position is less than 0.01 possibility on xG.
So, decisions like that basically hand a goal most of the times for an attempt that goes in 1 out of 100 times or less.
It's clear that the penalty rule has to change for good.
If everything is seen by VAR, and everything is penalized, the penalization should attribute a penalty which has a similar probability of becoming a goal.
Which means that penalties should be awarded only to those cases where a very clear goal was prevented.
There are many ways to revise the rule. The intention to do it is what is missing