Complex sentence: Instead of crossing the ball in, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area and scored while the other players and referee looked on in shock-and successfully persuaded the referee that the rules permitted this way of scoring a goal.
Split into simpler sentences: Instead of crossing the ball in, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area and scored while the other players and referee looked on in shock. He successfully persuaded the referee that the rules permitted this way of scoring a goal.