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Bad defending from Ox made it easy for Wanyama to reach the ball for the kick of his life!

Ox just stood there and did nothing. If that had been at the other end of the pitch he would have reached the ball first (since he is an attack minded player).

I don't understand this, Kane gained an advantage by being in an offside position. When the ball was played to him he's clearly offside, the deflection off Lovren is irrelevant as he's offside in the first place.

The new rule says it's a new situation when Lovren steps in and misses the ball (it deflected from his foot). Therefore it's not an offside position that lead up to the penalty. It's almost as when Dier passed the ball to Salah for our first goal. Salah was offside there, but since it was a back pass from a Spuds player, it was ruled off.

That Kane dived and the penalty maybe shouldn't have been awarded is another issue..

As Van Gogh says, It's like a striker intercepting a backpass from a defender to the GK, if the opposition player plays the ball to the attacker, he is not offside, even if he was not playing the ball intentionally, it came off Lovren last.

Whether Kane dives or not, he played the ball before Karius slid into him, and his foot hit Karius, Kane dived and made the most of it, but there was contact, so it was a penalty IMO.

I've seen referee's celebrate when they decide to 'play on' and that leads to a goal which in turn makes it a good decision. But I've never seen something like that.

Bullshi7

I thought first penalty was justified but not the second.

No
the rule said that unless the defenders deliberately play the ball, it is an offside.

Check this out:-

"A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched by a team-mate is only penalised on becoming involved in active play by:

...

gaining an advantage by playing the ball or interfering with an opponent when it has:

rebounded or been deflected off the goalpost, crossbar or an opponent
been deliberately saved by any opponent
A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball (except from a deliberate save by any opponent) is not considered to have gained an advantage.

A ‘save’ is when a player stops a ball which is going into or very close to the goal with any part of the body except the hands (unless the goalkeeper within the penalty area)"

It is a clear offside.

Kane is originally in an offside position that affecting Lovern's decision and Lovern didnt deliberately play the ball backwards.

If this case is not an offside, then I would ask all my strikers stay in the offside position and ask my midfielders to find the opponents bodies/legs for a deflection forward pass.

Look back the playback again,

It seems like Lovern even didnt touch the ball.

It is a deflection from Gini the deflected the pass.

Again, clearly offside when you follow the rule.

VVD made Kane quiet all day. Kane can only able to get on the scoresheet by doing a few attempts for diving (some come from his teammates tho). I think VVD has a solid game and ppls said that VVD is a liability is just bullshyte.