Neither the free kick was a free kick (blatant simulation) or the penalty - penalty (no intention, no visibility). Whoever says otherwise has never touched a ball in his life and better to follow cricket.
The only "rule change" I want to see is enforcement. I'm tired of referees saying "get up" to notorious divers but not showing a yellow for embellishment or simulation. Y these cats up, yo, it will stop that shit like crazy.
It would be great to see a winger lead a league in yellows for once.
Does it though? If you slide in wildly, totally miss the ball and force attacking player to hurdle you ending up flat on their face in effort to save their ankles is that not a foul even if you don't actually touch them?
Obviously not saying that is what happened here just debating.
I don't think that is a foul though, it's a potential. Now, you have an argument in the sense that it's assault versus battery wherein the perceived impending physical harm is assault versus the action being battery.