Kasper Schmeichel
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Well, first goal's offside.
Anybody who's played football, especially in goal, we know it's offside.
First of all, he's blocking my view when the ball comes across him.
He goes for the ball, he's blocking Christian Fuchs to even make an attempt for the ball, so it's offside.
It's one of these debates we, as players, would love to get involved in, but we're not allowed to.
So, you know, that's what makes it very frustrating that they aren't willing to listen.
Well, if he's in the six-yard box as a goalkeeper and the ball's going by him, it's going past my line of sight, that means he's interfering.
It doesn't even matter if he has to go for it.
He's interfering because I can't see the ball at one point.
Christian Fuchs can't get to the ball because he's stood in the way of him.
He prevents him from swinging his foot at the ball.
He swings his foot at the balls, so he's made an attempt.
He's three times his offside and it's one of these very frustrating decisions because we've done well up to then and we kind of lost our composure for five or six minutes and they get the second one and it's a very uphill task.
But we did really well.
I think we dug in, we got the goal and we've
The incident with Riyad is obviously a freak incident.
We saw Griezmann in the semi-final and it stood.
You talk about consistency, it's very difficult to take.
Just in general, no one asks the players' opinions.
They come in and they tell us the rules, and this is this, and they won't listen to the fact that it's very different for a goalkeeper if someone's in your island or it comes past someone, or even though it doesn't make an attempt, you still have to legislate for the fact he's there.