A remarkable moment last Sunday during the match between Leicester City and Manchester United in the Women’s Super League. The visitors from Manchester opted for a very remarkable tactic during a free kick.
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Manager Marc Skinner’s team was awarded a free kick on the edge of the penalty area. Elisabeth Terland and Millie Turner decided to block goalkeeper Janina Leitzig’s view with strange movements while setting up the wall.
What do we think to this?
I haven’t seen it in football before. Fair? Unsporting?
(Forgive me if it’s happened before but I haven’t seen it) pic.twitter.com/rqsOndirtV
— Ian Stringer (@StringerSport) November 17, 2024
The action caused mixed reactions on social media. A number of football fans spoke of it as a ‘childish action’ and ‘something you used to do on the schoolyard’. Skinner completely disagreed with this after the 0-2 win.
“They have a very tall goalkeeper, so you have to try to block her view,” he told talkSPORT. ‘It is something that our coach came up with in standard situations and it is simply allowed.’
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