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Originally Posted by MegaErtz
The law used to state that you were offside if you were past the third to last defender, not the second to last as it is now. Allowing attacking players to be a step in behind the second to last defender (as the goalkeeper is normally the last man back) would mean lots of long balls over the top and teams wouldn't be able to push up and play a high line. It would be like an entirely new sport.
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I doubt it would change it that much, wouldn’t be close to a “new sport”
Likely what changes is a lot of these close calls that go the way of the defense now would fall in favour of the attacking team.
With VAR nowadays those are the little tweaks that likely need to be made. In the past that would have been a goal 9 / 10 times because at full speed in the flow of the game it’s a hard call to spot. IMO the spirit of the offside rule was never intended to call back goals like the one tonight
But now with VAR those situations where a players shoulder is offside get called back and IMO it’s not as good for the game as a whole.