And, while I do not believe this was in his thinking when he did it, by placing it on the keeper's favoured side, it forced him to move it to the left to waste time, resulting in him kicking it out of play gifting us a throw in.
Nah. He puts the ball back cutting off some of the keeper's time wasting, and can use the rest of the keeper's time wasting to get back into position. Maybe if we had more than one ball boy at each end, it would be worth worrying about, but to me that instance is nothing to complain about.
I don't think you can criticise him for that. Their goalkeeper would have used up more time collecting the ball and then walking back to the far side of the box anyway. Bissouma collecting the ball cut off some of his time wasting, he just should have placed it in the middle of the box - if he...