Grassland Blue
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What a weapon we have in our armoury.
Haaland must eat plutonium coated muesli....
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Fulham (H) | PL | Post-Match
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Haaland must eat plutonium coated muesli....
Grassland Blue
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Raz will score the winner!Great win and fully deserved.
The penalty and sending off made it harder than it should have been but even with 10 men we dominated the vast majority of the game.
Bernardo ran his socks off as always, Akanji was fantastic one on one especially and John Stones played superbly even though out of position.
Alvarez - what a finish from the lad...he is some player....also played well in general.
Lets hope Chelsea can get a result tomorrow.
flook
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He was centre half at one point too as they broke from a cornerBernardo won that game for us today. Not many players can play right wing, holding midfield and sweeping quarterback.
Give the bloke £400k a week and let’s have him for life.
i think he meant that Emerson might have saved in open playEderson has only saved 3 premier league penalties in just over 5 years
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I’m not saying it wasn’t a red, and I understand why that decision was made, I’ve also got a grasp on the lotg as well as Peps reaction, what I’m simply asking is has anyone seen a situation comparable to yesterdays (they will exist) as I haven’t. We seem to be market leaders in refereeing abnormalities, both for and against. In Joaos defence the one thing he isn’t is a central defender, the way he dealt with it was like a fullback, but he found himself in an area of the pitch where you can’t defend like that, he very rarely has to cover round the back (that’s more a KW role) he’ll live & learnThe sending off is a consequence of deciding if its a foul. It’s nothing to do with the ferocity of the foul, it’s just he’s the last man.
Once the Ref decides it’s a foul, and denial of a goal scoring opportunity, the rest is by the book.
Listen to Pep’s post match interview, he goes in to detail about defenders needing to understand the potential consequences of their actions.
To paraphrase, Pep said, “let him through, Eddy could save, he could miss, but the team would have 11 players for 65 minutes to score more goals”. He then reels off all the names of our defenders who don’t make those sort of mistakes (hint : the list doesn’t include Cancello)
Agree, them equalising in the 15th minute just means 4-1 result with 11 men. With 10 men much more difficult as we witnessedMaybe but he got the two penalty decisions right.
The Fulham player knew what he had done straight away and Pep told Cancelo he should not have fouled the Fulham player,he may have missed or Eddie would have saved it.
East Level 2
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3? I can only remember Everton at home on the final day of the 2020-21 season.Ederson has only saved 3 premier league penalties in just over 5 years
Uncle Wally One Ball
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Dont wish to sound all Fordy about it, but Cancelo doesnt seem the 'learning' type to me anyway. He is prone to doing continued silly things like that. Great skill, lovely attacking player, so not having a full pop. Just seems a defensive brain fart waiting to happenI’m not saying it wasn’t a red, and I understand why that decision was made, I’ve also got a grasp on the lotg as well as Peps reaction, what I’m simply asking is has anyone seen a situation comparable to yesterdays (they will exist) as I haven’t. We seem to be market leaders in refereeing abnormalities, both for and against. In Joaos defence the one thing he isn’t is a central defender, the way he dealt with it was like a fullback, but he found himself in an area of the pitch where you can’t defend like that, he very rarely has to cover round the back (that’s more a KW role) he’ll live & learn
Can’t believe nutters are excusing and disputing it
I can.
You see similar penalty incidents that end up with no sending off. If there is room to debate it in the rules, which there is, people will debate it.
It is a penalty all day long. But is it denying of a goal scoring opportunity? Any more than a player being brought down by a keeper rushing out getting beat to the ball, or a sliding tackle defender not quite making it? He was at full pace to get to a loose ball, got beat to it, clattered into the player. Clumsy, mistimed, a penalty for sure. Debatable that it is a red though. Could be given and was, could easily not have been. Hence it is being disputed.
Stoned Rose
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Watched the full game back this morning after being there and I didn't realize the workrate of Bernardo in the 2nd half.
He was fucking everywhere. It was like having two Bernardo's out there
Surely he must of beaten his own record for the most KM's run in a match
Also big shout out to Kev who in the last 25 minutes really took the game by the Scruff of the neck
Both phenomenonal performances
I mentioned this in my post match post KW.
Bernardo absolutely ran the show. His movement around the whole pitch to create angles and space was world class. He was even covering in all of the back 4 positions at times.
Football brain of the very highest calibre.