Wait, so you can attempt to make a tackle in the box, get nowhere near the ball and break someone's nose with your shoulder without conceding a penalty? #nufc
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No. But the officials have to believe that there was a reasonable chance of the player foreseeing the outcome. The fact that this was labelled accidental indicates that in this case they didn’t feel Kulusevski could.
Consequences of actions aren’t just either accidental or intentional. The term accidental doesn’t simply mean “unintended”. It means that they judge that Kulusevski couldn’t reasonably have been expected to anticipate that Gordon would turn into him as he did.
So a defender who fouls a player after being nutmegged can argue that they didn't anticipate that the player would kick it through their legs? Arguments got more holes in it than a collander...
False equivalence. True equivalence with this circumstance would be that the attacking player nutmegs the defender and then runs into them. Which yeah, isn’t a foul.
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