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Chelsea aim cheeky dig at Soucek with FIFA's The Best Goalkeeper reference

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 who got away with a blatant handball inside the penalty area during the 1-1 draw.

 shot was blocked by Soucek’s arms, but the referee opted against giving a penalty.

After the game, the Blues Twitter admin decided to brutally troll Soucek in cheeky fashion.

Chelsea quote tweeted FIFA’s question about who will be voted as the Best Goalkeeper of 2022 in their The Best awards.

They just wrote ‘Tomas Soucek’ in the captaion with the video of his blatant handball attached to it.

The West Ham midfielder seemingly laughed off the incident after the game, even claiming that his father was a goalkeeper.

'My father was a goalkeeper': Soucek laughs off getting away with handball in West Ham box

 draw took place shortly before full-time when 

's shot with his arm but was not found to break any rules.

Even Chelsea's Twitter account objected to it, posting "Soucek makes a great save from Conor Gallagher."

As it turned out, Soucek himself does not disagree.

"My father was a goalkeeper, so I did a save!" he said laughing in an interview with West Ham's in-house media before adding a more serious reply.

"No, it wasn’t [a penalty] because I just fell on the floor and I know the rules that if I am on the floor and I touch the floor with my hand, even if the ball touches it, it is not handball, so I was quite clear that it’s not, but you never know what can show. It was really difficult for me, because I scored just one minute before that, so in my head it was in, but by the rules I was quite sure it would not be a penalty."

 fans and the neutral public disagrees, as well as TV pundits, saying that it was a deliberate move by Soucek to save the ball.

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@Babs13, seriously is not there fault we have clueless coach and 11 players on the pitch that can not protest. I mean GP must leave our club as a matter of urgency so as not to waste the talented players we just bought.

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Henry Jimk

Not all 11 players saw it. 2 did, Enzo and Gallagher, they both reacted. At least that's enough for the ref and VAR

Emma Boih

For me, if the VAR are not seeing this as a penalty then it is useless to relay on It. 

The useless FA wouldn't say or take any necessary action on this, but if it is all about us breaking the FFP rules they will want our head for it. Rubbish 😡

Babs16

his hand touched tha ball first, infact scrap all this technology tht u think is making tha game easier if we will still have an argument or debate if it was had ball, lets go back to old rules where handling tha ball anywhere inside the box results in red card n penalty weather intentional or not anywhere else on tha field is a straight yellow

Nkanyizo Scott Tembe-boi

EPL is a scam, they are already fixed the game before the time, we shouldn't expect the VAR the match fixing is their target....  😡👨‍💻

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Chelsea aim cheeky dig at Soucek with FIFA's The Best Goalkeeper reference

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