Mid Week Africano Trumpeters Sports : UEFA Announces Changes of Their Rules Ahead of 2020/21 Champions League , Europa League Campaigns
Mid Week Africano Trumpeters Sports : Uefa Announced Changes of Their Rules Ahead of 2020/21 Champions League , Europa League Campaigns .
Mid-week Africano Trumpeter sports .
Uefa have announced changes to their rules ahead of the 2020/21 Champions League and Europa League campaigns
The changes, which have been sanctioned by football’s lawmakers – the International Football Association Board (IFAB) – became official on June 1, 2020, the official starting date of the international 2020/21 football season, even though the coronavirus pandemic , of course, has seen the dates changed.
They will be adopted by UEFA for the remaining matches of the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Women’s Champions League and UEFA Youth League, as well as for 2020/21 club competition qualifying games, which get underway later this month.
Amongst the new rules is a change to penalty kicks.
The new penalty law states that a goalkeeper will not be punished if a penalty kick is missed or rebounds off the woodwork, unless the offence clearly affected the penalty taker.
For a first offence, the goalkeeper will be warned, but any further disruptions will see him brandished with a yellow card. On the other hand, the taker of the penalty will be penalised if the goalkeeper and the taker is offended at exactly the same time.
Roberto Rosetti, Uefa’s chief refereeing officer, said: “In general, with the Laws of the Game, there are just a few minor changes.
“when the goalkeeper saves the kick [by encroaching], it’s not a caution for the first offence, but [the keeper] must be cautioned for any further offence.
“Most goalkeeper encroachment results from a mis-anticipation from the goalkeeper and small offences are now detected more with the technology, with the video assistant referee.”
As well as changes to penalty scenarios being brought in, alterations are also being made about how the outcome of an encounter is determined.
For games that require a penalty shoot-out to reach a conclusion, yellow cards that have been handed out in the 120 minutes that build up to the shoot-out will no longer be carried over.
This rule may not affect outfield players too much but it could be a huge benefit to goalkeepers, as they, of course, can come under far more scrutiny during a shoot-out.
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On that particular change, Rosetti added: “According to IFAB and according to the Laws of the Game, the kicks from the penalty mark are not part of the match – it’s just a way to determine the winner of the match.
“So, [at the moment] if the goalkeeper has a yellow card from the match – from the match or from extra time – and then encroaches in the kicks from the penalty mark, of course, then he must be sent off.
“This would be more likely to occur now with VAR, and the goalkeeper can be penalised more than other players. We think that this is a good, important change .”
