To be fair both were potentially red. The rules go with the action and the outcome of the action. In the Jota foul, the foot was high, he made a forward movement with the studs showing and caught the face of the player drawing blood. Clear endangering the safety of a player. Malice or intent doesn’t come into it. Red card in most European competitions like CL. The Diaz incident again made clear contact with the ankle of the player. Reckless and could have broken a leg. The surprising thing about all this is VAR’s role. More and more it’s becoming apparent that the VAR official is trying his utmost not to overrule his colleague on the pitch. This concept of clear and obvious error is nonsense. If the decision is wrong or very dubious then VAR should ask the referee to look at it again. Like we said here many times clear key wrong decisions should be corrected even if the pitch referee could make an argument the other way in real time.
No one is disputing they were both red worthy but only one of them is getting attention in the media.
The two footed lunge with studs showing by Holberg on Elliott as gone completely under the radar too btw
Yep That entire officiating team should be being looked at And it should be public as their incompetence was public
No. Deliberate ? No !.Present games too fast .Diaz should have had a broken leg but lucky. I agree Jota was lucky.
Btw I don't think Richarlison got anything on that goal. It went over his shoulder and he nodded after it was on it's way in.
it was a free for crunching kane so fair enough but you don't let numbnuts run behind the line with one of theirs. nunez shouldn't be in that area and okays him on. Robertson was in behind the two cbs again playing son on. too.many basic errors really. when you introduce and extra body in to that line like we have then the dlcentralnone vvd has to be the last man all the time drive the other up.
I don’t think Robbo is doing welll in this new system. I also think he was regressing long before the change. I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re looking for his long term successor in the upcoming window
nah. no money. just going to buy.a couple and roll.put the propaganda machine before selling a couple to balance it and come out at about 20-30mil net spend
Robbo's strength has always been his wing play, not his defensive work - but with Trent in midfield he has to hold back a bit. It's not his best game, and it's another reason why I'm not convinced by the system.
it's borrowing a body to cover other areas deficiencies. borrow trent to play beside fabinho. create the base of this box malarcy. throw both other midfielders 20 yards up the park. top of the box but ahead of play and not influencing play unless found by trent and fabinho. they are pushed up there to create what is now a 5 man counter press as guess what? we can no longer do with with 4. we have in effect robbed right full to gamble on high pressing and hope that long ball into that channel is dealt with. this system requires in effect trent to hold in a very set space to drop into cb as the actual cb is off playing rb. yesterday trent though that game was won. he was swanning about over on the left tippy tippy passing and we then came out after ht and he was back playing rb. we in effect dropped the press, the energy dropped and it was a poor enough game by both sides being cagey at 3-1 one they scored no 2 via roberston getting behind the line all panic set in.
robbo has a lot of form for being behind the line playing people on. the issue for me is when you've two cbs they are partners and they keep their full backs up ahead and step up in unison. drop a third body in there and its.much more difficult to be that good and tight. it's really that simple. again we are borrowing from rb to make up for lack of press up top so we are relegating the record assisting full back in premier leavue history to a lcb role. oops. make no mistake, this system is designed to push on more bodies while.coviering central area as we fell we can't press with the front 3 plus 1.cm any more.
