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Published 07:35 20 Jun 2019 BST
Updated 15:28 21 Jun 2019 BST
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As the penalty is being struck, the 'keeper hasn't narrowed the angle or done anything to impede the taker.
She's a few inches further forward - barely - and still has to get down low to make the save.
Her stance isn't even noteworthy.
The rules - as often happens - don't account for how people actually play. And move.
The goals are 24 feet wide. That's 12 feet at either side that a goalkeeper has to cover and the strict enforcement of these rules means that it's difficult to get a push off to dive and block that space when necessary. They have 12 feet right or left and the time it takes a ball to get from the spot to the line to get there.
All the advantages are stacked in the penalty-taker's favour and the way the officials have been using VAR during the Women's World Cup results in the rules affecting the mindset of the player.
As the retake was about to be hit for Argentina, Lee Alexander was taking up position from behind the line and ended up just stepping to the side out of the way of an even tamer penalty than the first.
The referee and the occasion were all inside her head at that stage and Scotland were sent packing on the most pointless of technicalities.
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They'll not thank themselves for blowing a 3-0 lead but they'll not blame Lee Alexander either who flicked her heel off the line.
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