League Cup Final - Post Match Thread

[Vienna_70]

Bloody Germans!

 

[Vienna_70]

Every photo, every bit of video of them celebrating screams out that this is a very, very "together" squad.

This is exactly what I have been thinking these last few days and I said the same to Mrs Vienna.

 

[borassic]

Thanks for this, so blues take the tinted specs off and watch how that plays out. Ball in the air, defender staring at the ball and watch Agueros eyes, he isn't even watching the flight of the ball, doesn't care where it is. He sees the defenders turns to the side and puts his shoulder in his back. Knew it would put him off and ultimately did. Very clever play and I am certainly not complaining at all I just think with the media narrative being Arsenals weak performance then we all cling to that. If you are running backwards and someone turns into your back it will knock you off balance nothing to do with strength. Where he went wrong was not playing to the whistle and try and get back.

must have missed the rule that said looking at someone is a foul. Course aguero knew where the ball was, that's what he's looking before he looks at Mustafi. He's used his body well, end of story!

 

[Henkeman]

must have missed the rule that said looking at someone is a foul.

Not just a foul, a red card. Ask Kyle Walker.

 

[goater555]

The player backed into Aguero.... watch it again in real time from the side... superb goal end of

Yeah, looks totally different when slowed down. The stare from Aguero doesn't help. In real time he just stood his ground. The defender was totally at fault for not being goal side. Plus defenders get away with that every game.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Bloody Germans!

They can be trusted to do two things consistently:

1) Win honours

2) Ruin photos

 

[Vienna_70]

Apologies if this has already been posted.

A lovely summary of the day. Features Lakey's son too.

That’s excellent, mate.

I really enjoyed watching it.

 

[SebastianBlue]

must have missed the rule that said looking at someone is a foul. Course aguero knew where the ball was, that's what he's looking before he looks at Mustafi. He's used his body well, end of story!

Apparently looking to see where the other player is has been made a foul now.

Spatial awareness is the original sin.

 

[TBooksbluearmy]

Tom_mcfc. If that was a foul by Aguero, then why wasn't it a foul on Stones in the match at Liverpool, which was more of a push on John Stones, then Aguero's on Mustafi, sorry Tom but you can't have it both ways. Either they both were fouls or they both weren't, and as the ref's didn't give anything therefore they are both goals.

The only thing that was wrong in the final is that the stadium announcer did say that if VAR was to be used they would announce it. It was only when I got home on Tuesday that I found out that VAR was used for Vinny's goal, because Sane was in an offside position but the goal was allowed to stand, as Ospina was diving to where Gundogan's shot was going to his right, but Vinny toe poked it into the centre of the goal. However the announcer made no statement about it going to those in charge of VAR system were reviewing Vinny's goal to see if it should stand or be ruled out for Sane was standing in an offside postition.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Cast your minds back to Stoke v City start of last season when mike dean decided to give two pens, one for shirt pulling in the box at a corner for us and one for them, bizarrely for sterling ‘looking at his opponent rather than the ball’.
Not one pen has been given since for the latter offence ,as far as I know,as it was patently a stupid notion.
The shirt pulling in the box offence , however , is alive and well and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t have to trawl the archives for too long to find mr mustafi doing this very same thing, without his opponents waving their arms about and claiming for a foul for almost negligible contact.