Soldato
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That’s a penalty for me as well. Did they check it on VAR?
This half should be cracking
This half should be cracking
Greenlizard0 PL & Championship Football Thread ** spoilers ** [17th - 19th Sept 2021]
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It's really hard to say because we have a lot of issues that are nothing to do with tracking back. On a number of occasions it was simply a lack of pressure or pro-activeness from the players defending. We just stood off them despite having them outnumbered 2:1. It wasn't like the second player was blocking anything. They were just standing a metre and a half off the guy with the ball waiting for him to do something.
Its hard to make much of the first half season of Oles reign because we blew teams away. We had the ultimate new manager boost until we gave Ole his permanent contract and fell off a cliff again. If a manager is coaching something well, it won't get worse the longer he is manager.
Our midfield issues aren't to do with numbers they are to do with patterns of play and movement. Because we don't have any patterns we follow, each player is getting the ball then deciding what to do at that moment. That why you see so many of them strolling around the midfield and why most of our play is so ponderous. We don't play quickly because each player has to take the time to look up and figure out what runs if any are being made.
I think this is why we scored so many goals in the second half last season. Once play slowed down and teams tired in the second half we had more space and time to make those decisions and the opposition were not as quick to close down those gaps. When you are a slow playing team with quality players, a slow game suits you. You have the time to pick those passes slower decision making isn't punished.
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Does anyone know what language Clinton Morrison speaks? Listening to Spurs v Chelsea on the radio and I can't really understand a word he says.
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Something happened!
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Thats some poor defending. Nice header though.
I'm not sure it needs an investigation. In my opinion is a pen but I can see why it wouldn't be given and it needs to be clear and obvious to overturn it.
What I do think is that it shows that we should be able to hear the conversations between the officials. You can in rugby and cricket and it works brilliantly
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Chelsea stepping up now.
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Thing is the ref didnt even check it?
It's basically cast iron penalty.
As the ref himself gave a goal kick he knew there was no West ham contact with the ball, therefore what did he think happened?
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Game over, Chelsea got to be the favourites for the title.
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0-2, Spurs falling apart now
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Ooof thats harsh.
VAR reviewed it and the ref wasn't recommended to go check it.
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Then there needs to be an investigation into why they didn't
Presumably because they didn't think it was a clear and obvious error. Which given the discussion it has generated on this forum seems correct.
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I looked at it a few times and where's the contact? Was it the arm on the back because he was flying over before the legs got caught.
Exactly. That would have been given a penalty if he’d have waited for contact from the slide tackle. He dived over his legs, and too soon.
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Rudiger's a nasty piece of work. Can't imagine many neutrals would mind him getting taken out.
Looks that way so it's not surprising it wasn't a penalty given the refs are looking for contact before awarding penalties.
I quite like him. He doesn't seem nasty or overly aggressive, just a bit of a ****house