Madrid Derby Ends in Controversy: Penalty & Rule Debate

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00:00uh madrid derby here atletico madrid real madrid a crazy finish

00:05to a game yesterday that you know some people watch some people not i think

00:09probably we should uh describe the ending as to what happened

00:12yesterday and what it could mean for the future of soccer and replays

00:16yeah there's a lot to discuss here because it was really a memorable

00:19finish um it felt like controversial at the time

00:23looking back on it maybe not so much but still a lot of debate about this so

00:27basically the game went to it's an awesome game

00:30two teams thrown haymakers it's one of those like

00:33high on intensity low on quality only one goal scored in the first minute of

00:37the game 25 seconds in nobody scored after that but it was

00:41really back and forth a fun watch it went to a penalty shootout between two

00:45teams that hate each other's guts and julian alvarez slips as he goes to

00:50take his penalty still scores somehow even though he

00:54slipped it was an absolutely awesome penalty he roofed it into the top

00:58corner suddenly there's a video review and

01:00they've disallowed the penalty because the video kind of

01:05shows that his plant foot as it slips barely contacts the ball before he then

01:11kicks it into the goal and the penalty taker is not allowed to

01:15touch the ball twice before another player does and the point

01:19of the rule is to keep the penalty taker from

01:22deceiving the goalkeeper with maybe one touch and then scoring

01:26or or to keep it from like if the if the penalty taker hits the post

01:30and the ball comes back out he is not allowed to then touch it again and put

01:33it back into the net so that's the spirit of the rule in this

01:37case it was completely unintentional but the goal is disallowed and

01:41atletico madrid lose the shootout by one highly

01:45controversial at the time because it was impossible to see on

01:49video whether alvarez's foot actually did touch the ball it was very

01:53inconclusive now it comes out later that uefa and

01:58other leagues have technology to uh detect touches on the ball

02:04whether it be a chip in the ball in other competitions or in this one

02:07they have 26 cameras that triangulate and use ai

02:11technology to track touches on the ball and body movements

02:15that's normally used for offside situations but in this case

02:19it detected two touches on the ball the penalty was disallowed

02:23now uefa has come out this morning with a statement that said

02:26hey we're going to discuss a potential rule change here which is really the

02:30debate that has ensued afterwards because it

02:34felt really harsh this was not on the spirit

02:37of the rule and to disallow the penalty entirely

02:40and count it as a miss felt harsh for the situation

02:44uefa has said we're going to review for instances of

02:47unintentional double touches you might consider

02:51they could rule that the penalty would be retaken

02:54rather than count it as a miss so that's sort of been the fallout it was very

02:58memorable very controversial and a really good game and something

03:02we'll remember for a long time maybe even because it could

03:05end up in a rule change

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