Since 2013, FIH has stopped accounting for objectives scored by way of a deflection off a defender’s stick from inside the circle as an personal/self-goal.
The current observe was finalised after the worldwide physique trialed a rule in 2012. In accordance with that rule, a objective ensuing from a deflection off a defender on account of a shot from an attacker — even from exterior the field —would stand.
On the time, main gamers akin to Germany’s Moritz Fürste and Australia’s Jamie Dwyer criticised this experiment. They felt this would cut back the game to a sport of likelihood as groups would hearth in pictures from exterior the field, hoping for a fortunate contact. Quickly, the trial was scrapped and the current practise established
In accordance with the FIH guidelines, up to date earlier this 12 months, a objective might be scored when the ball is performed inside the circle by an attacker and doesn't journey exterior the circle earlier than passing fully previous the objective line.
The rule permits that the ball could also be performed by a defender or contact their physique earlier than or after being performed within the circle by an attacker. However in such a scenario, the objective can be credited to the attacker who made the ultimate contact inside the field.
Therefore, Neha Goyal was credited with the objective as a substitute of the Ghanaian defender.
