The Ecuadorian team had a free throw opportunity before the center circle at the start of this game. After hanging to the penalty area, the home team’s goalkeeper Ashbee came out to meet him, but both hand hammers missed. Chadha had touched the ball, and Torres passed it to Valencia in front of the goal, but it was deemed a fraud.
It was only when Torres and Ashby were scrambling for the ball that the live footage showed that Eschada, who had touched the ball and crossed his eyes, went forward with his right foot, but it was hard to tell if he was closer to the baseline than the two Cajun players, which constituted an offside. After a few minutes of the live broadcast, a 3D image from the offside detection technology finally appeared, highlighting the fact that Eschadda was ahead of Karen army general Edgar Lim Hassin, and the offside ruling was made.
The video intentionally does not explain other offside elements, such as whether the ball was pushed high by Torres or hammered by Ashby, and why Hassin was determined to be the second Cajun player closest to the line bottom, which is used as the standard for drawing the offside hypothesis. However, the high-altitude camera caught the moment when Torres and Ashby scrambled for the ball, and Eschada stuck his right foot.
The controversy did not stop the Ecuadorian team, which dominated the game, from winning. Valencia scored twice within half an hour after the fraud, helping the team to win 2-0.
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This is how close the offside award was against Ecuador ???? pic.twitter.com/ALzB6sDZiq— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) November 20, 2022
Now I got it. The player assisting Valencia benefits from an offside position pic.twitter.com/6SSyiQeS2q
– Siavoush Fallahi (@SiavoushF) November 20, 2022
