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Tom Wojtyga's avatar

There is no consistency in handball rule because people can’t agree what constitutes “natural position” players keep their hands in different situations.

Cucurella’s was in natural position and he was bringing it towards his body to make himself smaller.

Neither should’ve been a pen.

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TheLegendaryDB10's avatar

The thing is Cucurella's arm was still quite away from his body.

In the PL that would have been called a pen all day long.

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Tom Wojtyga's avatar

I absolutely would’ve hated that call going against my team at any level, let alone QF

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TheLegendaryDB10's avatar

I just hate how they made the pen rule so complicated these days.

It was all about how deliberate it was back in the days.

Which is why I agree with you. Now it's all about how positionaly natural one is and no one has a clue what this actually means these days.

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