With their arm that high? Let's be honest here all kids are taught to shield the ball, but with your arms at mid height. You hold off their body not their head. He looks around and sees the player and intentionally did what he did. Rules state intentional contact with the face/head is a foul. It's really that simple and if you think it was accidental you are incredibly naive imo.
I'll tell you why, because he's been here 8 years and it's paid off twice, and finally scoring reminded me of that. What cost us the game? It's impossible to say that but he definitely ruined positive situations because of his right. I think I'm being objective because he's receiving a fair degree of praise on this thread and I thought he was ok at best. Anyway, I've said my piece. I'll go and slag all the other players off elsewhere.
Exactly this - its the look around beforehand. Not to mention the ref was watching every move he made due to a couple of other strong tackles and had already had a word once or twice.
Let's take a step back. We have an attacking midfielder who has scored 17 league goals after nearly 8 years with us, either due to injuries or lack of quality, none of which will change. How can anyone justify keeping him? Because he presses aggressively? Personally I'd be happy to get rid of 4-5 of the attackers we have.
He didn't touch his head.
Let's see and if he can't then I'd say let him go.
If you couldn't tell we were going to lose the game after first 10 minutes then you weren't watching the same game as me.
Its been 7 years of him not being able to stay fit. He already missed 2 months this season.
I don't buy this at all. More teams press then basically ever before.
Yep , but as I was saying elsewhere , he desperately needed after his 1st yellow and subsequent sliding tackles etc , someone ( team captain) to cool him down , arm round him calming effect . But we don't have an outfield captain or apparently any team mates who could surely see he was losing the plot and help him .
Just done as you've asked. Watched it probably 10 times, zoomed in etc and he clearly, and I mean very very clearly catches his chin.
I'm not saying Lamela is the only player and I completely commende his effort but ultimately he also got sent off and has been on/off injured for the best part of 7 years and rarely produces consistent end product. But I agree some of the others not putting in the required effort isn't good enough either although as I've posted previously I feel a lot of the blame is to go on Jose's tactics and not so much the players as when you sit deep or don't press or have a play to retain possession of the ball and build attacks then attacking players will looks isolated no matter who they are its not fun playing with such little amounts of the ball.
That's a fair point, however what are his cards to minutes ratio over the last couple of seasons? I mean an awful lot of those games for us seem to be from the bench.Don't think I've ever disagreed with you before, Trix.
A career (so far) of 353 games across his career, playing for River Plate, Roma & Spurs.
Yesterday was his first red card for us in 8 years as a Spurs player.
The only other time he's been sent off, was in a Copa-Italia game for Roma more than 9 years ago.
Even the narrative that he picks up a yellow card in every game is a compete myth.
57 career yellow cards in 353 appearances.
Meaning an over-all average of 1 booking every 6 games.
Always a red card waiting to happen?
People really need to stop with that narrative when history clearly proves it as nonsense.
He was in fairness the only one who showed any bollocks or not wanting to lose.Don't think I've ever disagreed with you before, Trix.
A career (so far) of 353 games across his career, playing for River Plate, Roma & Spurs.
Yesterday was his first red card for us in 8 years as a Spurs player.
The only other time he's been sent off, was in a Copa-Italia game for Roma more than 9 years ago.
Even the narrative that he picks up a yellow card in every game is a compete myth.
57 career yellow cards in 353 appearances.
Meaning an over-all average of 1 booking every 6 games.
Always a red card waiting to happen?
People really need to stop with that narrative when history clearly proves it as nonsense.
