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Published 20:46 1 Jun 2019 BST
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And he is not budging.
As Mané kicks through, Sissoko's arm is still unnecessarily in the way.
Of course it hits his arm and deflected to a safer position.
Sissoko gets a second touch of it as he moves his arm towards it and takes the sting out of the ball.
A high, curling cross is trapped and dead because of a loose limb that did not need to be loose.
In January Head of Uefa Referees Robert Rossetti told the Times that - when VAR was introduced into this season's Champions League - officials would penalise any unnatural arm movement that makes contact with the ball.
That's exactly what Sissoko did. Twice.
"The big challenge is the position of the arm. When the arm is totally out of the body above the shoulder it should be penalised. If the defender is making the body bigger in order to block the ball it is not fair. "It is different if the defender is challenging or playing the ball and it rebounds. But if he is looking to block a cross or a shot on goal and the player is trying to spread his body then it is a handball."What's more is that referees were told at the start of the season: "When the arm is out from the body, above the shoulder, it must always be penalised." Whatever you think of the rule is one thing. But, by the rule, it was a penalty.
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