- Jul 23, 2013
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Yep absolute classic - Silva and Foden took turns tactically fouling us when we started to break out from the press. After about 6 fouls he finally booked Silva then Udogie commits his first foul and gets booked straight away.
I thought the ref was shit to be fair, on multiple occasions blew for the foul when we had a decent advantage to play on from.
That Udogie one was really odd as the ref kind of belatedly got the card out rather than in the moment. He then didn't book Walker for doing exactly the same thing about two minutes later.
The goal was an awkward one, as I'd say Dias did everything to make it awkward and I think most other parts of the pitch it would be classed as obstruction but he didn't actively push him etc.
The only way Vicario could have shifted him though, would have probably led to a penalty. It's hard to move big fuckers who don't want to be moved...
Probably needed a team mate to step in and help, but I think our players back themselves to sort situations like that out.