[oldalum]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwoqIPZsF...BiNWFlZA==
Why wasn’t this offsides ?   

1. unless it's obviously egregious, you can't judge offsides from an angle, so the video is inconclusive
2. and especially not when the potentially offside player is not even in the video we're viewing when the ball is struck on the pass to her (which is the moment when offside is judged). By the time a long pass arrives to a receiver, she can be yards ahead of her defender yet not offside when the ball was struck. The receiving player in this video had the advantage of seeing her defender as she was looking toward the ball so it should have been easier to stay in an onside position and timing her burst of speed for just after the ball was struck.

But looking at the side ref who is responsible for making that call, the video does at least raise the possibility that the side ref--who is seen running down the line during that play--might not have been in the proper position to make that call (directly in line with the second-to-last defender), or was not aware of when the ball was struck, which might help explain (but not excuse) the no-call if in fact it was wrong.

[oldalum]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwoqIPZsF...BiNWFlZA==
Why wasn’t this offsides ?   

1. unless it's obviously egregious, you can't judge offsides from an angle, so the video is inconclusive
2. and especially not when the potentially offside player is not even in the video we're viewing when the ball is struck on the pass to her (which is the moment when offside is judged). By the time a long pass arrives to a receiver, she can be yards ahead of her defender yet not offside when the ball was struck. The receiving player in this video had the advantage of seeing her defender as she was looking toward the ball so it should have been easier to stay in an onside position and timing her burst of speed for just after the ball was struck.

But looking at the side ref who is responsible for making that call, the video does at least raise the possibility that the side ref--who is seen running down the line during that play--might not have been in the proper position to make that call (directly in line with the second-to-last defender), or was not aware of when the ball was struck, which might help explain (but not excuse) the no-call if in fact it was wrong.