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On MOTD2 even Ian Wright was unhappily admitting it was a red.Yeah, that’s a red for me, as clear an example of endangering an opponent with an out of control lunge as you’ll ever see
On MOTD2 even Ian Wright was unhappily admitting it was a red.Yeah, that’s a red for me, as clear an example of endangering an opponent with an out of control lunge as you’ll ever see
Gotta be honest, I didn’t think it was a particularly high quality game. Arsenal probably superior in terms of sustained pressure and having most of the game played in our half of the field, but didn’t really overwhelm us at any point. In contrast, we did have to mostly counter-punch off the backfoot, and had a horribly shaky first half hour where we looked nervous under the press and couldn’t seem to pass forward, but were efficiently opportunistic when we did put some football together and got to the final third.
And then you look at the source of all four goals – a massive deflection, a goalkeeper flap, a penalty, and the last man getting robbed of the ball - and does suggest it was a fairly scrappy game.
Dug in at times, struggled a bit for the first time in possession but kept composed and trying to play our game, and made the most of our limited forays forward. Decent point, especially away from home against a top table rival and having gone behind twice.
Yeah think that was the game where we start getting taken seriously. Heard a lot of "they haven't played anyone of note yet" before yesterday. Should (but still probably wont) shut a lot of people up.Weird take mate. Some of the football we produced was high quality stuff.
Even opposition fans were acknowledging it
Going to be interesting to see how Gallagher will justify VAR changing a yellow to red in the Chelsea game, yet not even looking at the foul on Vicario.
Did he? The clip i watched said he would have no complaints if it was a red card and nketiah was very lucky. He said the var looked at it and decided yellow was correct. Then Stephen warnock makes a clown of himself trying to justify it.Talk about double standards, Gallagher says ref got it right in both cases and justified the Chelsea one by saying you have a duty of care to your opponent- where was nketieh’s duty of care to Vicario.
Ball did hit his hand coming in from a corner I believe, though I think his arm was up challenging for a header with someone. Seemed to be checked rather quickly and nobody mentioned it again.An arsenal fan at work, who knows less about football than a tin of sardines, suggested to me this morning that arsenal should have had a penalty for an Udogie handball, apparently from an arsenal corner. It's often difficult to see everything when attending that shithole because the view is so poor, but - having watched the highlights - I haven't seen or heard anything about this. Does anyone know, or is this more nonsense from a typically clueless arsenal fan (who thought the Nketiah challenge was in no way a red card)?
Watched the replay today and this incensed me. even if the ref doesn't deem it a foul, which it blatantly was, he has to stop the match as it was a head incident
A fair assessment. All the good teams do it though. Against lesser teams its not as risky as it is against the good teams. However, if all the good teams do it then we have the exact same opportunity to press and force a mistake against them as they do against us.I agree with you and I'm enjoying the football we are playing but we can still play good football without passing back across the goal so often. It's not necessary it's just as easy to pass it forward if you move into a position but we do it 4 or 5 times with the opposition closing in and the the panic passes creep in.
I'm fuming now the more I saw the tackle from Nketiah. And his punchable face walking away from the ref when the card was shown, what a twat.
Paul Tierny was VARIt is a red card every day of the week. I thought the ref didnt have a great game but it turns out the real culprit was actually whoever was in the VAR room.
Yeah, that’s a red for me, as clear an example of endangering an opponent with an out of control lunge as you’ll ever see
Raya over Vicario? Don't think so.My combined eleven would be:
Raya
Porro
Saliba
VDV
Udogie
Bissouma
Odegard
Maddison
Martinili
Son
Saka
Raya over Vicario? Don't think so.
I don't think Saliba individually is any better than Romero either, but it's a close call.
I also don't get the wank fest over Saka, sure he plays really well sometimes, but there's no consistency there, i'd say he's even's with Deki.
Martinelli I agree is probably better than what we have right now and I'd take Odegard over Sarr, but that's it.