I’m sure I read a year or two ago Pigmol stating that it’s still a foul if a player gets a slight touch on the ball, but follows through and takes the player out or impedes him, probably only apply that rule when it affects certain teams.So if you get a slight nick on the ball, you can boot a player to the floor to stop him advancing? I thought you had to win the ball first and foremost.
Because Laporte wasn't in the area and his attempt to play the ball was the clumsiest we've seen this season we get the opportunity to play with ten for half a game. Brentford just suffer a pen, which can be saved or missed. I think there is some deep imbalance here. Yer right, the laws are correct as written, but I think there is some serious imbalance in the possible outcomes.On the Norwich penalty - it's in the laws - the ref was correct. If it's in the area and deemed an attempt at playing the ball, then it's penalty+yellow. Basically the intention it to prevent a fair but slightly mistimed challenge getting both a goal and a sending-off double whammy.
"Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.) the offending player must be sent off."
They took a beating yesterday. My god did they ever. More of a beating than our 6-1. Total domination and control. As Souness said yesterday ‘i have never seen a game like that’.
And we can count those teams on two digits of one hand!I’m sure I read a year or two ago Pigmol stating that it’s still a foul if a player gets a slight touch on the ball, but follows through and takes the player out or impedes him, probably only apply that rule when it affects certain teams.
Few years lolYeah few years ago. Seems the last year he has calmed down a referee proper! Not today though.
I wonder which match will result in greater scars on the players. I agree with you its easier for everyone else just to go by the score line but the players who 'watched' us give them a lesson in how to play football yesterday wont forget that easily.i totally understand what your saying
mentally they was smashed and pep and city only used the starting 11 ? united used 15 players and the city players looked the fitter after the 90 minutes. but a score line bashing can leave a bigger scare than the result that looks a closer game, even at half time gary neville thought united could still get a 2.2 result hahahahaha
I wonder which match will result in greater scars on the players. I agree with you its easier for everyone else just to go by the score line but the players who 'watched' us give them a lesson in how to play football yesterday wont forget that easily.
The Liverpool match could partially be rationalised by individual mistakes. Not having the ball for 90 minutes cant be rationalised by anything other than we are on a different planet in footballing terms.
As I said, and its some quote, Souness: I have never witnessed or played in a game like that.Total dominance throughout the game is not often witnessed but we achieved it yesterday . Absolute control !
Not sure if it is that serious.Because Laporte wasn't in the area and his attempt to play the ball was the clumsiest we've seen this season we get the opportunity to play with ten for half a game. Brentford just suffer a pen, which can be saved or missed. I think there is some deep imbalance here. Yer right, the laws are correct as written, but I think there is some serious imbalance in the possible outcomes.
That little rat Fernandes spent most of the 1st half on the turf, honestly lost count of the amount of times he went down, ridiculous.Utd players hit the ground to stop play. That clearly indicated that they thought setpieces were their only chance.
Many of the fouls on City players were late but as the ball had been retained, it was presumably deemed advantage. One or two of the advantages were minimal at best, and you could see that some of the late hits were annoying the players - Walker definitely got one that he was annoyed about. I assume that it was drilled into the players to keep calm and ignore the ref's behaviour as much as possible.