- Banned
- #626
The handball interpretation changed at the beginning of this season (or last I can't remember) but it's basically "use a common sense approach".
If the player is in a motion were the ball hits the part of their body that could be handball (e.g. below the sleeve) the umpire looks at two things:
1. Was the natural motion the player the reason for the position of the hand for the handball? Or was the movement a deliberate attempt to "make the body of the player bigger" to impede the ball?
2. Was the contact with the ball to the players hand unavoidable due to proximity?
I think the Gabriel was safe on both of those interpretations.
And Zinchenko was under an injury concern, I think that's why he didn't play midweek either.
Some sort of minor muscular problem again I think Arteta said.




