SWPISHOME
Well-Known Member
Agreed. Pavard was at Grealish from minute one fouling him, The tackle in the second half just outside the box looked like Pavard had had enough and took hil out with the ball already long gone.The officiating, especially for a friendly, was shocking. He was letting tackles fly in (especially on Grealish) that would have been scrutinised for possible sending off in league matches, with barely any consequences.
Same could be said for the Club America match (again, especially for Grealish).
Luckily we don’t have another there otherwise we could have ended up with a few injured based on the “protection” being given to our players.
Another happened on Palmer I think it was Theo Hernandez that cleaned him out, For some reason that phase of play stopped and the ref done nothing it went onto another stopped phase of play then he decided to book him.
It seemed to me that they struggled with the rules in general of the game and as you said letting tackles fly in which was no need for in a friendly.