Manchester City, at last, showed signs of improvement of Leicester City on Saturday. City’s class record against Leicester in the course of the last two season have been one draw and two thrashings. The primary thrashing went about as a major leg-up in Leicester’s stun walk to the Premier League title in 2015/16 season while the second was a battling Leicester reminding everybody why it is that they won the alliance in any case.
In any case, on Saturday, at the Etihad stadium, City beat Leicester 2-1. The outcome would have been distinctive had it not been what must be a standout amongst the oddest occurrences one will get the opportunity to find in the Premier League. Leicester was trailing 2-1 and Riyad Mahrez had won a punishment for them. Mahrez ventured to take the spot kick. He slipped yet figured out how to put it past Willy Caballero.
In any case, at that point, arbitrator Rober Madley discounted the objective, to the obvious amazement of the away side. As it turned out, the arbitrator was well within his rights to do as such. The guidelines for taking an honest to goodness extra shot is expressed in Law 14 of FIFA’s Laws of the amusement.
As per the principles, the player taking the spot kick can touch the ball again subsequent to taking the punishment simply after another player has touched it. For this situation, as Mahrez slips, he incidentally touches the ball with his other leg as well. Since he has effectively touched the ball with one foot and has touched it again with the other before some other player on the pitch could, the punishment is at risk to be precluded.
The episode has been best depicted by Leicester supervisor Craig Shakespeare – “a freak accident” – one that we won’t get the chance to find soon. Pretty much a year back, Mahrez had cocked eyebrows when he terrifically scored Leicester’s third objective in their 3-1 pulverization of Manchester City at the Etihad in the wake of leaving Fabian Delph and Martin Demicheles for dead. After a year, he has raised a couple of more eyebrows, yet this time, not good for Leicester.
