Greenlizard0 PL & Championship Football Thread ** spoilers ** [1st - 3rd January 2022]

[jonneymendoza]

**** one for Arsenal fans that, nothing went their way + Gabriel/Xhaka compounding that

listen liverpool fan, u should be backing arsenal to have won today!!!

City have basically wrapped up the title with this win

 

[Ayahuasca]

Open your eyes.

No need to, you’re coping hard if you think it’s just standard city fortune for that moment.

The 2nd goal is a lucky one with the rebound but then the Arsenal defender shouldn’t have headed it into the area.

 

[fez]

ys the first half

That wasn't a foul or a penalty though so I assume VAR looked at it and didn't think the ref needed to check it.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Arsenal did play out of their skins today and probably deserved to win but even when City are far from their best you can't get a man sent off, give away a penalty and miss great chances and hope to beat them.

yea of course.

Not saying none of it was not our fault, arsenal made some silly decisons,

Xhaka for one....

City did not look like scoring unless it was a pen or a lucky goal.

They barely tested our GK

 

[IronSpider]

Arsenal got robbeed!!

Arsenal played better than City overal!!!

You're not robbed when you can't put the ball away or your player cannot keep his head. This is nothing new, bigger clubs grind out wins like this and play to the final whistle. Arsenal play until Christmas day. All downhill from here boys!

 

[The_One]

how many fouls rodri commit this half alone? then only gets a yellow after scoring a goal and taking shirt off

 

[Stumble Bum]

No need to, you’re coping hard if you think it’s just standard city fortune for that moment.

The 2nd goal is a lucky one with the rebound but then the Arsenal defender shouldn’t have headed it into the area.

Coping hard? Yeah I don't even follow Arsenal.

 

[IronSpider]

var ruining games again

Where?

 

[The_One]

Where?

the penalty decision wasnt a pen

ref goes to look on monitor and they dont even show the angle where he was already heading for the deck before any sort of contact

 

[explicit4u]

how many fouls rodri commit this half alone? then only gets a yellow after scoring a goal and taking shirt off

Only booked for celebrating his goal

 

[Tombstone]

listen liverpool fan, u should be backing arsenal to have won today!!!

City have basically wrapped up the title with this win

Ah well, theres always the battle at the top of the Championship table to provide some excitement between now and the end of the season as the Premier League title is over and done with

 

[The_One]

Only booked for celebrating his goal

if he had been in red he would have been sent off already the amount of fouls he made

 

[IronSpider]

the penalty decision wasnt a pen

ref goes to look on monitor and they dont even show the angle where he was already heading for the deck before any sort of contact

It was a pen but regardless just because he didn't give it instantly doesn't mean he wouldn't have given it without VAR. Right now it's in their mind that they don't need to make an instant call, pre VAR there's a good chance he would have given that anyway.

 

[omnomnom]

That first half penalty shout for Arsenal is just laughable everytime i see it. Its the clearest penalty ive seen in ages

 

[robfosters]

Disappointed but we threw it away ourselves. No one else to blame.

 

[The_One]

MOTM vardiola

 

[Raymond Lin]

Arsenal played really well, better than City in fact but threw it away when Gabriel got himself sent off with the 2 yellow cards and the open goal miss in between.

You can analyse the inconsistency of VAR but the crucial thing for me is the red card, the self inflicted red card which basically gave the last 30min of the game to City, at the point when the game is 1-1 and still playing better than City. That red card caused the switch to be more defensive to hold on which they almost did but ultimately didn't.

 

[The_One]

Arsenal played really well, better than City in fact but threw it away when Gabriel got himself sent off with the 2 yellow cards and the open goal miss in between.

You can analyse the inconsistency of VAR but the crucial thing for me is the red card, the self inflicted red card which basically gave the last 30min of the game to City, at the point when the game is 1-1 and still playing better than City. That red card caused the switch to be more defensive to hold on which they almost did but ultimately didn't.

the refereeing is a joke though he couldnt ref a game of rock/paper scissors

 

[fez]

the penalty decision wasnt a pen

ref goes to look on monitor and they dont even show the angle where he was already heading for the deck before any sort of contact

He wasn't heading down before Xhakas leg made contact. People seem to obsessed that it was the shirt pull that was given not the leg that Xhaka stuck out. The shirt pull was indeed when he was already on the way down but the initial contact was the main reason it was a penalty.

 

[The_One]

He wasn't heading down before Xhakas leg made contact. People seem to obsessed that it was the shirt pull that was given not the leg that Xhaka stuck out. The shirt pull was indeed when he was already on the way down but the initial contact was the main reason it was a penalty.

it wasnt a pen