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Was the performance that bad?
I've watched the game again and we created a bunch of chances. Our finishing on the day was abysmal. If we showed a bit of composure in front of goal the result would have a been different. I do believe that. I think they just panicked and snatched at chances due to nerves from the magnitude of the game.
There was no lack of effort. We huffed and puffed without ever really testing Alisson with a good shot.
equalled the record for most penalties received in one season I think.
Oh and they had the most penalties received last year as well
It's pretty clear and obvious that Man Utd must not be allowed to fail and must make the Champions league.
As shit as we've been give us the 13 penalties they've had in exchange for our 4. Plus the other nonsense decisions that have gone against us like Son's sending off against Everton, and handful of "big toe" offside calls and we would be comfortably trade places with them in the table. Easily enough to make up that 9-10 point swing between the two sides.
Yes,It would be glossing over the problems with our squad. but make no mistake fine margins win games.
By all means criticize our team and the football we are playing at the moment but i don't understand it when people say it makes no difference to the result. Of course it makes a difference to the result in both the Sheffield game and last nights game, those goals would have made ALL the difference in the result.
Or it could be that no-one understands what Jose is trying to do ?
Seriously we could all stomach this if it was part of some master plan BUT WHAT THE HELL IS THE MASTER PLAN HERE ?
I posted this in the VAR thread after the Sheffield Utd game.
Rugby have used TMO the best. The one thing that ABSOLUTELY needs to come in is the transparency between on pitch officials and the VAR official. If we can hear how they come about with the decision then it enhances transparency and the VAR official can be held accountable for enforcing the rules as they are written.
At the moment the VAR official can make a decision and nobody knows how they came to that conclusion. When another VAR official can make a different decision for a similar scenario.
You then get the same official making wrong decisions, knowing full well that he is not going to be criticised for it publicly. A manager or player does that and its a fine and match bans.
This I must agree with.... Doesn't excuse the remaining 85mins, but 1-nil down after 5 minutes that team has to 'come out' at some point (esp. being on the brink of relegation... Even the draw allows them to fight another day!), which would be suicide as has proven time and again for them against teams with attacking quality in their ranks.
To still be in the game at half time is 9/10ths of the strategy for a team with their backs against the wall.
Do you think Liverpool/Woolwich/Man Utd fans just shrug and go "Ah well we were shit and didn't deserve anything anyway" when a big decision goes against them?
Yeah we were shit, I've acknowledged that, I've also acknowledged we are playing terrible football which is boring and frustrating to watch. The fact is, if we slot that penalty we still win that game in all likelihood.
It's a mentality at the club and in the fan base that we just roll over and take these decisions going against us.
I'm dead curious as to how many of their pens have broken the deadlock for them......
Last night & Vs us is 2 in a matter of weeks.
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And the original referee stands there like a lemon when the screen is available. If the ref last night had gone and looked, he would have given it. The real problem here is that the booth doesn't want to seen to overturn the original decision and embarrass the ref. So, because of some nicety, 3 bad decisions made last night !!
If the ref changed his own mind! What's the problem ?
Yeah.
Frankly we should be using it the same way as Rugby.
The on field officials make all the decisions by looking at the monitor. The VAR guy just says to the official you might have missed something there go take a look.
Transparent communication between ref and VAR. Everyone can hear. Job done.
Also get rid of that stupid handball rule.
The performance was that bad. A bit of perspective. We were playing a side who will be relegated in the next few weeks, who’ve lost 17 of their last 22 league games, who’s conceded 9 in their last 2 games, who hadn’t kept a clean sheet since they faced Luton Town in the 3rd round of the FA Cup at the start of January.
To become the first sight to fail to register a shot on target against Bournemouth in their 186 game history in the top flight tells you how bad the performance was.
No you misread.
I was quoting a post about the CL final performance.
Don't get me started on the performance yesterday
No you misread.
I was quoting a post about the CL final performance.
Don't get me started on the performance yesterday
Apologies!
I wasn’t too enamoured with our final performance in Madrid in the final. It was a 5 star performance compared to last night though!
It really shouldn't need that. That's just another way of the refereeing body wanting it to be seen that the pitch referee is the one making "the call" and maintaining his "authority". And it just drags it out further.
Any ref, with the benefit of VAR replays, looking at those decisions last night should have been able to make easy calls. The problem is "The directive" from the referees association instructing them not to make the pitch referee look bad by overturning his decision.
They just need to grow a fucking pair, show some common sense and actually use the technology at their disposal properly and stop worrying about the bullshit perceived threat to the "authority" of the pitch referee.
Yeah but if we had been given the penalty, we WOULD have had 1 shot on goal.
Unless of course we let Lamela take it !
November which year ?
Yeah and interestingly they are bottom of the league on conceding them.
How can that be? They've been quite average for a lot of the season and have only recently started clicking (and I agree some of those PKs have been the catalyst for some of that clicking)
At the most Aurier put a couple of decent balls in the box
But most, as usual, were shite
Get rid asap