Did the “semi-automatic offside system” not consider the Barcelona striker’s toe to be decisive when making a decision against Robert Lewandowski, but rather the toe of his opponent’s boot?
One of the pieces of wisdom that has gained commonplace status in recent years is the certainty that in the end “details” can be decisive. Sunday evening provided evidence for this thesis. The course of the Spanish league game between Real Sociedad San Sebastián and FC Barcelona (1-0) was decisively influenced by a detailed look from a machine called the “Semi-Automatic Offside System” (also called SAOT according to the English first letters of the word compound).