Leicester post match thread

[asahartford1]

Not sure if Sterling should have been given offside, but In a couple of weeks I am sure that the GOAL of the season will have been 2 yards offside.

 

[NorCalBlue]

Genuinely sat here wondering if the rules have been re written. Glad it's not just me

The rules were sort of rewritten before the start of the season so that a player in an offside position is offside if he makes any attempt at playing the ball, even if he doesn't touch it. By that criterion and the fact that if you freeze the frame when Silva plays the ball, Sterling looks offside by a heel, than Sterling should probably have been given offside.

However (and it's a big however), Sterling's position was so marginally offside that it would have been almost impossible for the assistant to be sure, so he did the right thing not calling it. AND Schmeichel's a f**king knob who doesn't seem to be aware that Sterling attempting to play the ball was enough to make him offside, so he lies and says he was in his line of sight (or distracting him, or somesuch) which he clearly wasn't.

Bottom line - he probably was technically offside, but calls this close can always go either way and we've had plenty go against us this season.... like their "penalty", which equally technically should probably have been a free-kick, because the first contact was outside the box. And Vinny's card for "fouling" their full-back - imagine if Vinny was a goalkeeper and their guy was a striker running through on goal. There's no way it would be a penalty and would more likely be a yellow for simulation and the f**kwits on MOTD would go on about the fact that the keeper didn't make any contact, blah, blah, blah. So f**k 'em all, offside or not, we won the game, we got the points, end of.

 

[NorCalBlue]

Not sure if Sterling should have been given offside, but In a couple of weeks I am sure that the GOAL of the season will have been 2 yards offside.

I think Giroud was onside :-)

 

[BlueAnorak]

In my 43 years of watching City I have never seen a penalty taker hit the ball twice - well not that I can remember anyway. Always a first time for everything with Mahrez's Leicester pen guess.
The pitch was a problem for both teams today - it must have been bone hard underneath and slick on top resulting in many slip incidents. Otamendi slipped to let Leicester in for their 1st half reply and Clichy slipped before giving the penalty away.
City should have been 3 or 4 goals up when Leicester got one back, but we were only 2 up. A well worked goal completed by Silva and a Jesus penalty after a mazie run by Sane bearing a number of players elite being sent sprawling. But so many missed opportunities by us. A fear of shooting from just outside the box being the major issue.
Second half we came out and looked like the team had a hangover - there just wasn't enough pace in our game to really trouble Leicester and it wasn't helped by our players giving the ball away far to frequently. Sterling and KDB were the worst offenders but they were not the only ones. Indeed without Yaya we'd have been overwhelmed.
A truly awful 2nd half performance.
The game wasn't helped by a ref who gave fouls to Leceiceter but blew for a foul when we made the same type of tackle.

 

[Vic]

East stand linesman was terrible.
Some of his decisions throughout were shocking.
Started badly and got worse..
As for City a Good win but a struggle in the second half.
Bring on Tuesday,just about there.

I can't recall anything terrible apart from not flagging for the elbow in the face on Sterling. I don't think Madley asked him if the trip for the pen was outside the area and he didn't flag Sterling offside for our first. I don't think he thought Sterling was in an offside position anyway.

As to the guidance that Kasper was quoting...




The new “additional guidance” to referees says that a player should be considered offside if he “clearly attempts to play a ball, which is close to him when this action impacts on an opponent” or “makes an obvious action, which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball”.

It introduces a degree of subjectivity as to the intention of the player concerned but Mike Riley, the manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Board, said that the referees would still encourage attacking play.

“It allows those decisions where morally we all thought, ‘That should be offside’, to be penalised,” he said. “It’s important to say it doesn’t mean everything is offside. Unless you meet those specific criteria we will still keep the flag down.”



So it's only offside if Schmeichel or anyone else could have got to the ball if Sterling hadn't been there (obviously he attempted to play a ball that was close to him - a daft thing to do seeing it was going in).

 

[Jazzman]

On here it feels like many have been beaten into submission by the refs and the media narrative that surrounds them and are at the stage where what is happening out there in front of them they are blind to.

First 45 mins we played them off the park because the fat fucker had decided to not do his stuff.

2nd half we got kicked to fuck and every 50/50 he gives to them, along with advantages and at least 2 corners in the last 10 mins that clearly come off the leicester player and dont get me started on 10 mins of injury time.

its been said time and time again that the way to cheat is subtle but its there if you bother to look and for 55 mins today it was blatant.

thankfully we overcome the 12 men and most will just claim he was awful as a ref.

Forget awful, he did his best to create a certain result and he hasn't been alone this season.

This 10 times

 

[Marvin]

Some truth in this.

Let's not get carried away.....we've beaten two sides without defences.

Leicester are not a mid-table outfit are they? I am not sure whether Leicester could play an entire season like they have under Shakespeare but at the moment they have been the best team in the league outside of Chelsea and Spurs. But at the same time they did not boss the game for 50 minutes. City stopped playing after Leicester scored but they never bossed the game

 

[Marvin]

I can't recall anything terrible apart from not flagging for the elbow in the face on Sterling. I don't think Madley asked him if the trip for the pen was outside the area and he didn't flag Sterling offside for our first. I don't think he thought Sterling was in an offside position anyway.

As to the guidance that Kasper was quoting...




The new “additional guidance” to referees says that a player should be considered offside if he “clearly attempts to play a ball, which is close to him when this action impacts on an opponent” or “makes an obvious action, which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball”.

It introduces a degree of subjectivity as to the intention of the player concerned but Mike Riley, the manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Board, said that the referees would still encourage attacking play.

“It allows those decisions where morally we all thought, ‘That should be offside’, to be penalised,” he said. “It’s important to say it doesn’t mean everything is offside. Unless you meet those specific criteria we will still keep the flag down.”



So it's only offside if Schmeichel or anyone else could have got to the ball if Sterling hadn't been there (obviously he attempted to play a ball that was close to him - a daft thing to do seeing it was going in).

Its borderline with respect to offside position and offside offence

 

[tonea2003]

a bitty game and we got away with the points, KDB passing was well off and it epitomised our whole display

controversies aside and until video replays come in its a win some you lose some and it was about time we won some

hard cheese leicester

 

[taleofbluehalves]

Motty suggested Sane made the most of the contact on the pen! He was running full pelt and taken out for goodness sake!