Team Wellington Youth

heard the goalie had a howler ( rumor is linesman flag was up he thought referee gave him free kick so he walked outa the box with ball in hand and free kick given for handball (is that a red card??)  of the resulting free kick a goal)

 

score?????

 

rumor is semi v waitak this saturday away?? confirm??

 

and confirmed team well ythv waitak away on sat.

other semi must b auck v otago/cantb

 

Match report? Well TW gave up an early lead. They were defending deep, but the Canterbury front line were fast. I don't remember much about the goal, but it was some nice interpassing to put someone through for a good finish. TW equalised totally against the run of play. The keeper got amazing distance from a goal-kick into the wind, the forward ran out to it, one touch lob looked destined to go over but dropped into the top corner. Total route one, but it was a classy finish. After that, TW looked the better team. They took the lead after Sam Blackburn skinned a defender or three, cut in along the deadball line and squared for someone to finish. Then the keeper howler gave the equaliser mentioned above, walking out of his box with the ball in his hands for a free-kick that wasn't (the linesman had flagged, but ref had waved play-on). Second half quite even, Canterbury possibly edged it but couldn't score. Karl Romijn hit the bar direct from a corner with the Canterbury keeper beaten. Then a red card was given for dissent against the linesman. I didn't hear what was said, but the TW forward knew he was going after he let the linesman have it for signalling goal kick when the player though it was a corner. Shame, had they won TW would have had a home semi.

 

By the way, should the keeper have had a red card? No. He did not deny an obvious goal-scoring opportunity, so why would he get a red?

 

Auckland against Canterbury. Otago didn't qualify.

 

red card for keeper handling the ball outside of the box isn't it denying a goal scoring oppurtinity or not????

and did you see what happened between coach and sent of player of team wellington or am i hearing exatrated things???

 

No obvious goalscoring opportunity - there were no forwards still there and the keeper already had possession of the ball i.e. he didn't claim possession of the ball via handball. He collected the ball well inside his own area and then calmly walked out if his area. Definitely not a red - not sure he even got a yellow. Don't forget that FIFA remind refs in the Q&A section of the Laws that a handball is not automatically a yellow unless it is blatant abuse and in these circumstances, it was an honest mistake - albeit a stupid one correctly penalised (well not exactly correctly given that the ref awarded an indirect free kick for some reason - something the ref specifically admitted post-match that he got wrong).

 

I have no idea what happened between the coach and the dismissed player. The offence took place right by the corner of the Newtown 2 where the changing rooms are, so the player went straight to changing rooms. If there was an incident, it would have taken place out of the public eye - well, my public eye anyway as we went down for the Senior match after the final whistle.