Welcome buddy, hope you are all keeping safe, welll and enjoying watching City over there in one of my favourite countries.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! :)
A guilty pleasure....
Just watching the match,
Why do arsenal subs have to wear bibs when warming up but the head coach of arsenal doesnt but he has a arsenal warm up top on !
Ederson tried to get the ball, and he did. Odegaard did not manage to reach the ball first and he accidentally stepped over Ederson's leg with some ferocity. It might be even a foul from Odegaard if we want to stretch it a bit, but point is that there was no penalty at all.
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! :)
;) just thought it was odd the arsenal sub who are wearing black had to have bibs on. There coaching staff and 'manager' can wear red arsenal trackie tops !Its in case they spill their bottles.
Nobody has for a reasonNobody seems to have crticised Rodri for removing his shirt and blatantly provoking the Arsenal fans. That booking may result in a suspension towards the end of the season when we need him most. I hope that Pep fines him. Otherwise, no complaints other than for the paucity of substitutions.