There certainly were one or two very soft decisions yesterday. I can understand this sending off, given the letter of the law, but it was soft all the same.
There certainly were one or two very soft decisions yesterday. I can understand this sending off, given the letter of the law, but it was soft all the same.
Norrin Radd
Tour Winner
Dunk never touched him Dunk was trodden on, apart from that no other contact was made , it was shown on motd this morning and last night . Var got involved because of a blatant error by the ref .
Arthur Wedge
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And then there was a blatent second yellow ignored in our game
3 jabber
Active member
Everyone does it now, agree it is pathetic. Red card was the correct decision but Diaz should have been punished as well for simulation.
I’m sure the defence splitting pass from Trent for your first helped numb the pain, though. What a ball that was.
Arthur Wedge
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Unreal - had a great game yesterday, first half his covering was very good as well
clubchamp98
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Marking him is a bit of an exaggeration TBF.
It’s why strikers should stay on the halfway line and keep a CB out of the box.
Swango1980
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So there was contact then. Thanks for confirming
Palace will feel hard done by with that free kick getting disallowed for a foul, nothing in it for me, all the players were all over each other.
Norrin Radd
Tour Winner
The only contact was made by the Everton player .So there was contact then. Thanks for confirming
Swango1980
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No skin in it for me. Not bothered either way. As long as the referees are now consistent, where a defender is allowed to go to ground, not win ball, and if opponent accidentally lands on them and falls over, no foul by the defender.
However, I remember quite a few penalties being given last year for this type of incident. Anthony Gordon springs to mind. So, if they still continue giving penalties later on in season, then I will continue to believe Everton were hard done by yesterday
Arthur Wedge
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He stood on dunk - was a clear error
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Same for delibaretly handling the ball! In Liverpools game.
Should have been off as he had a yellow.
But put my pension on the same ref will book some players for it .
Just not yesterday!
So consistently inconsistent.
PaulMdj
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I don’t think you can say he stood on Dunk! DCL was trying to control the ball and has his back to Dunk, Dunk comes sliding along the floor and DCL’s foot lands on top on Dunk’s, Dunk’s momentum takes DCL’s foot away from him and DCL goes down.
Was it a penalty, initially yes by the Ref and overturned by VAR, no way was it a clear error.
I can see why the Ref gave it and why VAR overturned it. DCL would of taken a shot had he not gone down, so didn’t intentionally dive or stand on Dunk, Dunk sliding in was trying to the block the shot neither happened.
One of those decisions that could of easily gone either way.
Arthur Wedge
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clubchamp98
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Great finish from Haaland but VAR why did it take that long.?
The commentators seem to know before the ref by quite a while.
The commentators seem to know before the ref by quite a while.
Pin-seeker
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It’s killing the game from a viewing point for me.
Must be even worse for the match going fans.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Commentators were guessing but impossible to know from their angle until they put the lines but takes forever
The level of diving in this game has gone up a notch
Savinho looks a decent player but clearly has no right foot
Got to be some sort of basket case of a club to give Enzo the captaincy after what he was caught doing
Pin-seeker
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Sorry Phil but that’s awful “banter”
Pin-seeker
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So is Toney off to Arsenal?
