Michael Oliver has a track record of waiting for VAR to intervene. He did it in the Arsenal v City match when he failed to send off Kovacic. He did it in our game v Chelsea where he let everything go - including some easily bookable offences by both sets of players - until eventually VAR...
Like Clattenburg before him, we’ve got a bizarre habit in this country of celebrating referees who pick and choose when to apply the rules. It’s bollocks and only makes it easy for fans to cry corruption when it’s not corruption it’s just a mixture of arrogance and incompetence.
Those things don’t change what we did and didn’t create ourselves. Hojbjerg’s own goal doesn’t inflate their xG. I thought we played well in the first half but in the second half, when chasing the game, we didn’t create enough. Arsenal defended very well, as they have all season, but that...
That 2.73 will include the penalty and Romero’s goal which will account for about half of the total and were gifts.
Aside from Romero’s header against the post (his previous one wouldn’t have counted) and one early in the 2nd half, I can’t remember any other chances for us. Lots of huffing and...
We didn’t create nearly enough in that game. The two goals we scored were gifts of sorts and even our disallowed goal was through sheer will rather than high quality attacking play.
That pen not given which led to their 2nd was the difference. Ange won’t call that out though and that annoys me...
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