When a defender deliberately kicks the ball in the direction of a goalkeeper, the goalie must not pick it up. The fact that Arsenal's Fabianski did pick the ball up last night against Porto was a schoolboy errors and meant it was an indirect free kick. Wenger is totally wrong to say the referee has to allow the defending team time to build a wall. Why should he penalise the team that has already been penalised by the offence? The attacking team can take the free kick as quickly as it wants to and it's the referee's duty to ensure this can be done. Thus, instead of allowing Fabianski to hog the ball or even to throw it away, Martin Hansson took the ball from him and gave it to a Porto player, who placed it on the ground, took the free kick, who passed to a teammate who scored.
Instead of rushing to defend the free kick, Arsenal defenders were either standing around or arguing with the referee.
Wenger will undoubtedly be giving Fabianski a rocketing for his errors, but chose once again to show a lack of respect for a match official who made excellent decisions in awarding the free kick, making sure it took place in good time and in allowing the goal.
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