Road to Rio

[Thryleon]

Just watched the Matilda's go down.  Bugger.  We are definitely not having much luck these Olympics.  But I did have to go to Wikipeadia to check the rules for penalty shoot outs and found this:

The keeper is forbidden from moving off the goal line to narrow the shooter's angle.

Be interested to hear from anyone who knows the game intimately (ex-players?) and whether they think the Brazilian crossed the line (no pun intended).

Sometimes they declare a retake but you'll find that keepers leave the line early a lot of the time and get away with it.

It's one of those rules not harshly enforced because the penalty is more of a lottery than anything else for keepers whilst it's stacked heavily against them.