Last month there was a video question in my online refereeing exam concerning a possible penalty for a handball offense. The clip came from a Bundesliga game between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04.In the game’s 10th minute, Dortmund’s Julian Brandt takes a long free kick around 40 yards from the Schalke goal, and his teammate Erling Haaland meets it with avolley-cum-cross from the left side of the penalty area. From very close range the ball hits the outstretched arm of Schalke’s Jonjoe Kenny before going out of play behind thegoal line.
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