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100% correct.Watch it again. Maloney doesn't "sprint" anywhere. Is always in front of the ball, always stays in front of it, and Addo-Carr is always behind it.
Two metres (the metre behind and metre in front that yet another journalist was getting worked up over just over on news.com a minute ago) is actually a tiny amount of forward momentum for a 10+ metre wide pass. It probably travelled such a small distance forward because Maloney's run was quite angled.
But even if he was running 60 degrees away from directly at the line (which is getting close to running sideways) he would still impart half his running speed to the ball. If he was only running at 5 metres per second, which is pretty pedestrian, that is still 2.5 metres per second. If the ball was in the air for only a second, it would travel 2.5 metres from momentum.
The fact the ball hardly travelled forward at all, is more evidence that it was thrown backwards.
Freeze the play at any point along the pass, and you'll see the relative positions of Maloney and Addo-Carr are always those of players throwing and receiving (respectively) a "backwards" pass.
It is such a regulation pass, I can only think that the media blow ups, and people getting worked up on here, are due to the nature of the match it was thrown in.
Any reason for some to whine.
Yes, It was thrown backwards.