Arsenal (A) - Post-Match Thread

Howdy from Greece, a ManCity fan since 2006(16 years old then) and continuous follower of bluemoon. Decided to get an account just for yesterday's commentary!

My observations for yesterday's game is first of all:
I was astonished(well not that much since i got used to it) by the biased commentary on BT. It was like playing an English side against a foreign one. In the old days I was praising English football commentators compared to ours here, for knowing football and being fair, but now City is demolishing competition this has drastically changed.
City's owners have to do something for this as it has become too annoying these days.

As for the match, City did not reach its usual very very high standards and was in fact too far away from them, but overall it did not play that bad as people say. :)
Let's not forget City has played in 5.5 days 3 matches while Arsenal had whole week to rest. Apart from that we definitely show in the last 3 games some signs of fatigue and this has to be expected. These 2 weeks now will hopefully correct that.

As for the officiating of yesterday's game, let me be the 8500th one here to point the obvious, that the penalty on Silva was valid for 2 offenses also so VAR was correct, the penalty they ask was hard to decide but after all the replays one can see that Ederson went from the ball with a normal tackle and he got the ball first so VAR was correct, Rodri slipped and got only the ball in that corner, the 2 yellows on Gabriel were utter obvious.

I can understand the whining of some fans saying VAR gave every decision to City but it was correct to do so!! So what's the point? If one has to complain i would say it's City as after the red card, referee played for some 5-10 minutes, 80-20 in favor of Arsenal in some fouls and small decisions.

We are in the era where Salah dives after a short pull/touch of his shirt by Dias and they say "pull, so a definite penalty" and now after Xhak@ tripped AND pulled with x3 the power and duration of Dias the shirt of Silva, they spend 1 million hours analyzing why it might not be a penalty.
This is the City era! :)
 
Revolver said:
Very true. The only real debatable decision is the Arsenal non penalty. I didn’t think it was but it could have been given.
Arsenals bleating is pathetic. Never win a
league acting like spoilt kids.
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It was one of those where, if it had been given by the ref, it wouldn't have been reversed by VAR. So good job, ref :)
 
Anfield the morning after

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One thing i also do not understand is with Pep. Being +1 man up and having 20 more minutes to play why not bring inside fresh legs and make a substitution with Grealish? We also played not that aggressive in the end, we seemed not to try for a goal as much as we should have.
This thing with Pep, being reluctant to make any substitutions fast or at all, is his only weak spot in my opinion.

The other is that he is tooo modest going even sometimes to the other side of praising people where they don't deserve it. :)
 
East Level 2 said:
I think City got lucky having to play Brentford a few days earlier while Arsenal had a rest. Just like Leicester got lucky having to play the dippers while knackered after playing City. - The world according to Bingo Klopp.
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I know the best result for us is a draw today but fuck it, I hope Chelsea absolutely smash those thieving bin dipping twats.
 
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