@Elwinsam24 He’s an amazing player and has some ridiculous tech in his bag (Everton assist for example)
But I’m pretty sure this one wasn’t deliberate. You can see his plant foot is pointed to the other corner and his right foot gets a little too under it.
As he said, they all count!
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott Agree with you on this and I think we both agree the PL is in dire need of seriously improving their reffing standards across the board.
I know we’ve been arguing for a while lmao but I’m gonna have to call it here and go on with my day. Have a good one
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott IMO the 2023 city league was just as ref-influenced with some huge calls against us. Villa, the refs “Forgetting to draw offside lines” v Brentford, Christie no call leg breaker on Saka, etc
Regardless, I think we’ll be in the mix for the title no matter what this year.
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott I think it should have been a penalty but if the prem is okay not giving it when it happens to us I’m not upset about other teams not getting it when we do it as far as Saliba goes
Hopefully reffing is better this year. I think the corner rules will help us actually so I’m hype
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott Well maybe instead of introducing a panel to say “Oh yeah our refs are shit” but can’t do anything about it but say “we were wrong” and apologize they should work on fixing the state of reffing lol
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott Gabriel one is fairs he’s lucky Woltemade didn’t go down.
Referees seem to not give pens like the Saliba one is what I was saying. They didn’t give a pen for us vs Villa in 23. Lost us the league actually
Merino none of us know how it would affect the game.
@RayzSar@Richiegold_6 Madueke is super frustrating to watch at times because his final ball is so inconsistent but let’s be real he’s still comfortably above these guys lol.
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott Watched the Martinelli-Wieffer call back as well and contact like that in the box imo should be a pen but they’ve always been poor about calling box scrambles. (E.x: Brentford goal where Ramsdale is getting held in 2023? I think)
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott My takes:
Merino should’ve been off with we still win that game considering the score
Gabriel vs Newcastle came off his body first so no pen, but vs City he shoulda been off
Not sure how I feel about Saliba-Everton Luiz did the same to Jesus a ~2 yrs ago in a title race
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott There’s just a lot of stuff that I thought was odd in the panel- for example they said Rice against Chelsea should have been a penalty but VAR was right to stay outta it.
Then they gave Chelsea a goal for the pen and the corner that they scored from when the pen wasn’t given?
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott I’m saying their process was bad and some of the results they came up with don’t make sense.
I even used Spurs as an example so you wouldn’t call me biased lol. Take a breath dude I’m not attacking you just giving my opinion
@ChrisPi53289533@Matt5cott That panel was dross tbf. Made of up refs basically checking their own homework and saying they did well- not even about Arsenal specifically. Distinctly remember them saying Tottenham had 0 Var errors against which is just not true if you ask any spurs fan lol
@yourfbiman@BladeVixen1@xdqhcvbn If you wanna see a midfield get ran through so bad just go watch United lol
There’s a reason we focus on stability first here and it’s because teams with a weak spine get run through in the prem.
@koma_AFC@scrapytweets IMO the assist was intentional- there’s clips of him practicing the same fake shot pass in practice.
The goal was definitely a shank, you could tell by the way he was jokingly covering his mouth before celebrating. Not complaining though he deserves a couple lucky goals lol
@Alex_Berwick@7ontheshirt And what do you want to do about this? This has been a thing in football since television was introduced and athletes started making crazy money.
Man United in the 90s broke spending records all the time and dominated. Rich clubs have always had an advantage