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franugo:
Your hand does not have to be raised to concede a penalty, it just has to be away from your body, which our player's hand was, same with the Moroccan player.

#modified
I attached a picture of the incident, you can clearly see that our girl's hand was away from her body. I think it perhaps touched a Moroccan's hands first before hitting our girl cause otherwise, I'm not sure it was a right call, even if it did favor us.

franugo:
Your hand does not have to be raised to concede a penalty, it just has to be away from your body, which our player's hand was, same with the Moroccan player.

#modified
I attached a picture of the incident, you can clearly see that our girl's hand was away from her body. I think it perhaps touched a Moroccan's hands first before hitting our girl cause otherwise, I'm not sure it was a right call, even if it did favor us.

LLSAINT:
Nonsense
They should watch England and Sweden
Yhe referee did worse but nobody cried
North Africans are always like this
Cry cry babies

VaginaAcademic:
Nigerians should petition CAF for using lasers. E pain dem

manuelkel:
These guys are bunch of losers who don't want to accept that. One thing about losers they wail when they loose.
Clearly not a penalty, the world knows that.

Softmirror:
The want to claim that Nigeria stole their mandate abi? The usual cry by losers.

BewareOf419:
Actually that incident was a penalty but Morocco is not ready to be crown champion is the cause!

robosky02:
Renowned/Award winning FIFA referee, Salima Mukansanga, was in charge of VAR last night in the WAFCON final match between host country, Morocco vs Nigeria.

Salima is not the type of referee to overlook just any act, much less in a more crucial game like the final match of the just concluded tournament.

About VAR cancelling the penalty, the center referee, no offence, did a marvelous job with the officiating and was fair with both sides, but what she had seen as handball, was in deed not handball.

Now let me state the handball rules in football.

“According to latest IFAB handball rules of FIFA, if the ball touches a player’s hand while the hand is vertical/parallel and behind the player’s trunk, it will not count as a penalty.

Another reason why that call was void by VAR, was because the Moroccan player was too close to the Nigerian player, hence it counted as a hand to ball instead of ball to hand.

Look at this photo clearly. It would only take en experienced referee to make a decision, and this was where Salima Mukansanga showed her prowess.

Thank you Salima for making the right call.
We’ve also known you to be fair and just.🤝

KillahPriest:
Morocco should be banned from seven WAFCON competitions for allowing their fans use laser pointers on Nigerian players

BewareOf419:
Actually that incident was a penalty but Morocco is not ready to be crown champion is the cause!

drstranged:
You don't know the technicalities of football yet. Don't display your ignorance sir.
Once a player's hand is in the same longitudinal line as their body (that is, not outstretched) a penalty can never be awarded no matter how many times the ball hits that hand. The hand in that position is assumed to be part of the body itself and thus in a natural position.

Middleborn:
The referee who officiated that final is an unbiased referee.

It hit the hand of the Nigerian player and appeared to be an obvious penalty, so she blew the whistle. But went to check for possible errors.

1. The distance between the Moroccan player who last hit the ball and the Nigerian player whose hand made contact with the ball is about a yard. its too close. When the distance is too close, it is assumed that there was nothing the Nigerian player could've done to avoid the contact and it could be foul-play from the Moroccan player Maybe she deliberately targeted the arm of the Nigerian player.

2. The Nigerian players arm was in a natural position.

BewareOf419:
Mr technical ignorance. Penalty was awarded here 👇

drstranged:
Then the referee here was obviously in error. Please go and read FIFA rules. That's what I expected you to do -check FIFA rules and regulations and use that to counter me. It'd make you sound more intelligent. Don't just put up another image from another game and use that as reference when we all know that football referees can be in error sometimes. It's like building a house on sand or air, without any solid foundation or basis. That's how your argument looks.

drstranged:
You don't know the technicalities of football yet. Don't display your ignorance sir.
Once a player's hand is in the same longitudinal line as their body (that is, not outstretched) a penalty can never be awarded no matter how many times the ball hits that hand. The hand in that position is assumed to be part of the body itself and thus in a natural position.

BewareOf419:
Actually that incident was a penalty but Morocco is not ready to be crown champion!