Marcus Rashford's been benched for Utd, due to an internal disciplinary issue. Given what some of their players have been up to, I dread to think what he did! As I type this, Casemiro does his usual ****, deliberate foul and isn't booked. Standard.
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What? I was listening to Talkshite earlier on my walk back from town and they were saying that he is the second coming, or something like that. Personally I'm thinking it's easier to be a midfield destroyer if you don't get yellow cards when you do your destroying bit. Have to admit I haven't seen it but the BBC reports Lopetegui's annoyance that he didn't get a deserved second yellow in the match. But yellow cards are important. More subtle than not awarding or awarding penalties for favoured teams and similar VAR calls, but just as important. If certain teams can keep on doing yellow card challenges and not getting them it gives them a major advantage. Citeh do it all the time. Funnily enough never mentioned on Talkshite and similar, and certainly not mentioned in their earlier "analysis" of the player.
Same goes for Man Utd back when they were relevant, as Scholes and Keane would run around and kick people for fun and maybe get booked in the 88th minute But it's gotten so much worse since the ubermensch normalised machine gunning tactics, which Fraudiola also embraces
Yep, Fabinho does it for Varpool also, persistent professional fouls, elbows and general shietehousery etc, he gets away with most of it because Klopp will have a hissy fit if he is punished, he has never been sent off in 130 PL appearances despite being one of the leagues dirtiest players. When you add it all up it makes a huge difference having a midfield enforcer with free licence.
CK, don’t be obtuse. It didn’t get spotted in real time - which happens frequently as you well know - and then on replay, Mitoma was clearly offside in the build-up as seen on the footage. You’re talking as if it was some extremely tight, marginal, split-hair call when it wasn’t.
