Was a red, was over the ball and on the shin, not ankle.
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It was more shock than anything.
Next years it's their year (I'd put money on 115 again personally)This made me chuckle
I know it was a red, no dispute from me there.
The point is, that a very similar challenge on Wednesday night was not only not given as a foul, a panel of independent adjudicators upheld the VAR decision.
How can Semedo be sent off in one game but Amrabat doesn’t even get booked in another?
Yeah you can’t really look past City TBF
Im still certain that that’s given at the other end. You just know they’re going to fluke the FA cup don’t you.
Because they are hopeless. This season has been terrible from the officials and everyone involved.
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The challenges weren't similar. Semedo was sent off for serious foul play, the Amrabat challenge was miles away from being that and as such the VAR was never going to get involved on those grounds.
Nobody disagrees that it wasn't a foul by Amrabat and should have been a penalty but the way VAR is implemented meant that although most of us thought it should have been overturned, we're also not shocked that it wasn't either.
That said there's been numerous similar challenges to the Semedo one that haven't been overturned and some that have been - it's lucky dip.
And that’s the problem - there’s no consistency.
What’s the point of having the technology if it can’t be used properly…
Caporegime
They managed to get 6th when months ago they were absolutely in no mans land, same as last season.
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The only way City are losing the league next year is if they get points deduction or Rodri gets a season ending injury. A bit like Keane in 97/98 or Cantona getting banned in 95.
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Why is it a cracking job to finish 7th when you were only 3 points behind? Or am I missing something?
I agree and as I've said previously it's a consequence of this "clear and obvious" nonsense. No ref looks at the Amrabat challenge on Gordon and doesn't think it's a foul however they're not being asked to determine whether it's a foul but whether the onfield decision was clearly and obviously wrong and all that does is confuse things. We all have different definitions of clear and obvious and nobody knows just how clear and obvious the mistake needs to be before they overturn it.
Either scrap VAR for subjective calls or get rid of clear and obvious. Allow the qualified ref sat watching multiple angles and slow motion replays to simply make the correct decision. It will result in more overturns but I don't think anybody will mind - we go through all the delays (without the correct decisions) already and hopefully it'll result in more consistent decisions.
I've commented previously that it's amazing that they've finished where they did (or were going to) from where they were but when you judge the team/manager you do so over the course of the season and given the resources available to them, Chelsea finishing 6th isn't an achievement.
We had somebody comment on Palace earlier after then run of form at the end of the season and similarly with Chelsea, it's hard to take too much from results at the end of the season when so many teams had nothing to play for. I do think Chelsea have (and will continue to) improved over the season but they were starting from a very low base and I'm not sure they'll reach the level they should or are expecting to without a lot more changes.
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Oh us United fans will be livid I tell ya. Livid.
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Also 4th best defence in the league believe it or not.