Arsenal (A) - PL Post Match Thread

Bluearmy said:
Thats clearly the refs fault. WTAF….

From your description thats exactly what i saw at the ground. He gave a free kick to us which stopped us scoring.

And you think thats irrelevant….
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By the laws of the game if the ref blows, the game stops thats what I meant by irrelevant.

Rico was fouled he fell over, the ref blew. Rico then jumped up and scored.

You are correct that the ref blowing stopped us from scoring but no way could he have foreseen that Rico would then jump up. So I don't really blame the ref.
I've watched it again and Rico handled the ball before he got up.
 
Bluearmy said:
Not true?? The ref stopped a goal to give us a foul. Thats clearly the refs fault. WTAF….

From your description thats exactly what i saw at the ground. He gave a free kick to us which stopped us scoring.

And you think thats irrelevant…. Wow
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VAR would have disallowed it anyway, as Rico clearly handled the ball when he fell over..
 
Bill Walker said:
By the laws of the game if the ref blows, the game stops thats what I meant by irrelevant.

Rico was fouled he fell over, the ref blew. Rico then jumped up and scored.

You are correct that the ref blowing stopped us from scoring but no way could he have foreseen that Rico would then jump up. So I don't really blame the ref.
I've watched it again and Rico handled the ball before he got up.
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You’re missing the point. He penalised us for getting fouled. Waiting to see if any advantage is pretty basic officiating. Its 100% the refs fault and nothing can be more relevant…

The “Advantage Rule” in football, states that the Referee has the responsibility to NOT call an obvious foul if it hurts the non-offending team.

Its all clearly laid out by the IFAB. Awful officiating

Advantage | IFAB

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BlueMonkey79 said:
VAR would have disallowed it anyway, as Rico clearly handled the ball when he fell over..
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Fell over…??? You cant give handball if being fouled caused it to happen. Same as a deflection onto the hand isn't a handball either…. Apart from when we visit Anfield
 
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Keeper! said:
The ref was very lenient to us, Kovacic could have got red for the first challenge and the second was a yellow all day long
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He probably should have been sent off but c'mon... Oliver gave us absolutely nothing in the second half. Partey had the most obvious foul of the season on Foden clearing out both his feet and still didn't call it. Not to mention Doku getting absolutely zilch from him in our half.
 
The referee didn't cost us the game yesterday.

Kova should have seen Red in his first challenge. Then the second was a nailed on booking.

We went in to that game with more of a "don't lose" mindset instead of winning one.

We played do slowly a times it was like walking football..

Trying to look at a the game from a neutral perspective it was pretty boring.

Hopefully after the international break everyone except KDB will be fully match fit and we can put the last 2 league games to bed.

Bournemouth asides, we have a very tricky fixture schedule coming up. After the Spurs game on 2 December hopefully we are within 4 or 5 points of the leaders and we can kick on from there.
 
TrentGrisham said:
He probably should have been sent off but c'mon... Oliver gave us absolutely nothing in the second half. Partey had the most obvious foul of the season on Foden clearing out both his feet and still didn't call it. Not to mention Doku getting absolutely zilch from him in our half.
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Stop blaming the referee for our deficiencies, we were poor not the ref.

Kovacic was 100 % a red and if he was in a red shirt we would be steaming and full of conspiracy theories if he did not get red.
 
Bluearmy said:
Not true?? The ref stopped a goal to give us a foul. Thats clearly the refs fault. WTAF….

From your description thats exactly what i saw at the ground. He gave a free kick to us which stopped us scoring.

And you think thats irrelevant…. Wow
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Well, it was because it hit his hand so the goal would never of counted. The refs aren’t our problem at the moment. Especially not yesterday when we should have been down to 10 men.
 
Keeper! said:
Stop blaming the referee for our deficiencies, we were poor not the ref.

Kovacic was 100 % a red and if he was in a red shirt we would be steaming and full of conspiracy theories if he did not get red.
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My life, that performance yesterday had nothing to do with the ref. Just a very, very bad day at the office.

As I said before - our best starting midfield last year was KdB, Grealish, Gundogan, Rodri and Stones. Not one started yesterday. As good as Pep is, you can't afford to lose all 5 and then bring in Kovacic, Nunes, Rico, Doku and expect to beat Arsenal at the Emirates.

We'll hopefully get better.
 
BlueMonkey79 said:
The referee didn't cost us the game yesterday.

Kova should have seen Red in his first challenge. Then the second was a nailed on booking.

We went in to that game with more of a "don't lose" mindset instead of winning one.

We played do slowly a times it was like walking football..

Trying to look at a the game from a neutral perspective it was pretty boring.

Hopefully after the international break everyone except KDB will be fully match fit and we can put the last 2 league games to bed.

Bournemouth asides, we have a very tricky fixture schedule coming up. After the Spurs game on 2 December hopefully we are within 4 or 5 points of the leaders and we can kick on from there.
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We struggled under Arsenal pressing,thats where Haalands big body and hoida up play couls help us,but that also didnt work.
 
Bluearmy said:
Not true?? The ref stopped a goal to give us a foul. Thats clearly the refs fault. WTAF….

From your description thats exactly what i saw at the ground. He gave a free kick to us which stopped us scoring.

And you think thats irrelevant…. Wow
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If he had have played on and given the goal, the VAR would have ruled it out and play restarted with a free kick to Arsenal for handball. So not sure we really lost out on the deal.
 
Stephen230 said:
If he had have played on and given the goal, the VAR would have ruled it out and play restarted with a free kick to Arsenal for handball. So not sure we really lost out on the deal.
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Not convinced that's right at all since the handball was a direct consequence of being fouled. VAR awarding a free kick to Arsenal for one of their players fouling a City player who lands on top of the ball for a split second?
 
Shit game, never really created anything again, our best player was Rico and he got dragged off, is Kovacic due to start playing for us soon?
 
Dogtanian said:
Shit game, never really created anything again, our best player was Rico and he got dragged off, is Kovacic due to start playing for us soon?
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Weird how we see things differently , I thought our midfield was anonymous especially Lewis who couldn't get in the game at all in the first half.
 
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