EFL Cup Final Manchester United v Southampton ** Spoilers ** [26th February 2017]

Deserved goal for Southampton before the break. Should make the second half interesting.
 
Kenai said:
He's gone off the boil massively. Two seasons ago those goals don't trouble him. He earned his reputation but he's got complacent.
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He's always looked suspect to me. He's a big lump and from close range he's half decent but anything from distance where's he's got to move he struggles to reach.
 
What I hate the most is not knowing how the game would have panned out if the first goal had counted :(
 
Shearer:

I just think the referee has called that Jack Stephens decision right - just.
If it had gone to a red, you couldn't blame him but he is inexperienced so it's right to give him the benefit of the doubt.

We take into account experience when giving cards? :confused:
 
Great performance from Southampton, United just have too many match winners. Ibra, Lingard, the linesman. :p

They really needed that goal before half time otherwise they'd have gone in to half time thinking it's not their day.
 
Shamikebab said:
Shearer:

I just think the referee has called that Jack Stephens decision right - just.
If it had gone to a red, you couldn't blame him but he is inexperienced so it's right to give him the benefit of the doubt.

We take into account experience when giving cards? :confused:
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Yeah, the experienced player would have just tumbled like a sack of spuds when his heel was tapped and never got as far as that challenge to start with, it's only fair :p
 
deserved goal at the end there, and rightly should be 2-2

Utd have been shockingly bad, especially in defence , Valencia and Rojo are completely shocking

Mata and Martial are completely invisible for the most part (and Herrera getting booked for what he did was terrible refereeing)

Pogba really should have made Forster work harder early on also
 
FrankJH said:
deserved goal at the end there, and rightly should be 2-2

Utd have been shockingly bad, especially in defence , Valencia and Rojo are completely shocking

Mata and Martial are completely invisible for the most part (and Herrera getting booked for what he did was terrible refereeing)
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Terrible officiating is the stand out feature so far
 
BaZ87 said:
It clearly was onside but Le Tissier is a ****ing moron - that wasn't an easy decision for the linesman to make.
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I wonder how many more years we'll tolerate consistently poor officiating and just accept 'well it was difficult' as an excuse before we finally just introduce video reviews.

One point he does make well is the complexion of the game, Southampton 1 up sets up the remaining 80 entirely differently with completely different pressures on the respective teams.
 
They need to bring in technology and a challenge system, all of the money invested in goal line technology and embarrassing offside decisions like this still impact games on a weekly basis.
 
Kenai said:
Terrible officiating is the stand out feature so far
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to be fair, Southampton haven't lost from the cards point of view, every card given for Southampton was completely fair (and it could be argued you could be a man down) so don't complain too much :)

(edit - the 2nd half is when those cards start becoming important ....)
 
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