"Arsenal have lived off those scrappy, aggressive goals all season. Blocking keepers, crowding the six-yard box, little nudges here and there. Suddenly, when it happens against them, it’s clear and obvious. Give me a break."
– Joe Hart
The VAR wanted a closer look at a potential hair pull by Dominic Calvert-Lewin on Marc Cucurella...
Nothing doing. The Leeds United forward had his hair pulled by Manchester United Lisandro Martinez at Old Trafford — the Argentinian was shown a red card...
𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹. Modern football.
#mufc appealing Lisandro Martinez’s card. There’s also understandable bafflement at the time the FA are taking to communicate the outcome of the Maguire charge
https://t.co/QBoZGfL3Bx
🚨🗣 Rio Ferdinand on VAR:
“Since when did this game get so biased?
For the first goal, Calvert-Lewin doesn’t even try to head it. He uses his hand on Yoro, Yoro misheads it, they score. No review.
Then with Martinez, both go for the ball. Play continues, no one reacts… but someone is checking it for a red.
At this point, it’s Manchester United against them.
Even if United score… you feel like they’ll find a way to rule it out.”
swear once a season they randomly decide to apply a rule usually ignored to penalise a united player, the commentators/pundits behave as though it’s completely normal, and then it never happens to anyone else all season…
Michael Carrick goes in on the first goal & the red card decisions: “Leny Yoro gets a forearm smashed in the back of his head. It's worth looking at again if you haven't seen that.
Which I don't know if you're getting a sending off for what we are getting a sending off for, I don't know how that doesn't get overturned as a goal it's a clear forearm smashed to the side of his head, that first goal shouldn't stand.
.. If he sees [the Martinez incident], we've seen it before he goes to the screen & says 'well actually it's not [a red card], the arm in the face of Lisandro to start with is an arm in the face so he's kind of off balance & off grappling.
He almost goes to touch him to grab the back of his shirt & grabs the back of his hair.. you get a red card? It's not aggressive, there's no tug, there's no sudden movement, he kind of touches it & glances through it.
We've got to be careful with where the game is going if we're giving red cards for that, but you can do two arms to the face for the red card & the first goal & that's deemed alright. That's a shocking decision, an absolutely shocking decision.”
[@BeanymanSports]