Goal or No Goal?

[ref2coach]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

At what point does the keeper hold or trap the ball? There is no point when the ball stops the movement started by the keepers teammate so it is clear that the keeper has failed to hold or trap it so he cannot according to the ATR have possession.

Even failing that, you cannot, as you suggest, stop play because the keeper establishes control. You have to actually have the opponent challenge the keeper to have an offense. If you stopped play when you feel the keeper established control the only possible restart is a drop ball.

You're bending the rules to bail out the defender and the keeper.

In the opinion of the referee is the basis of decision making in TLOG. In your opinion you do not see a time when the GK gained possession. In my opinion I do see a moment in time where the GK does gain possession and is then "kicked" in his left arm or "challenged" after gaining possession. You do not see the challenge by #7, I do see a challenge by #7.

Based on your opinion you are correctly allowing the goal. Based on my opinion I would be correctly applying TLOG as guided by the ATR, and restarting with a DFK for the GK's team.

If I were assigned to assess this game, this would be a discussion point in the debriefing. Why? So that I could explore if the referee crew is aware of points that lead to making a correct decision, no matter which decision they make.

Because it required me to look/replay/stop the action multiple times to come to my conclusion, I would not mark the decision incorrect no matter which way the referee, in his opinion, decided. The thing I would want to come from the debriefing is just how little hand to ball contact is required to be correctly judged possession, especially in a "youth" game.