Watch it again the Wolves player doesn't collide with Onana he is jumping for the ball when Onana takes him out by diving at him and the ball hits the Wolves player on the head, its doesn't go wide it goes off the side of his head across the box.
That's clearly not what happened. Kalajdzic isn't moving towards Onana. He's slightly moving away from him. It's not a collision. Onana just steams into him. Dawson doesn't head it wide, either. The ball's put back into the middle of the box.
Just before that , Wolves had a shout for a penalty. The commentators even said that there needs to be two checks. We never saw VAR look at the previous incident. Why?
Deffo penalty. Keeper just clears him out. In a similar incident (maybe slightly not so bad) but vicario cleared out one of the brentford players just as he shoots (might have been saved cause the ball goes over). On another day that might have been a pen. Similar ish circumstances player cleaned out after ball has been played because of a late challenge. Just intrigued what you make of it
Late challenges after a shot rarely get penalised...I've never understood why. In the Vicario incident he stopped just in time so the Brentford player ran into him.
The ball was headed out of play for the Vicario challenge, so there was little chance of that being a penalty call outside of the same incident happening at Anfield or Old Trafford With Onana the ball was very much headed back into play when he took out Kalajdzic, and there's little doubt if the challenge happened at the other end the VAR ref would have put down his complimentary prawn sandwich and made the call
I must admit I thought Vicario’s challenge was far worse than Son’s. I hate the fact minor clips count enough for a foul, the tap from Son to Jensen does not send a grown man to the ground. Vicario’s though was just reckless, the ball may have gone but it was stupidity on his part. Wiped the player out. How Onana’s weren’t given though, full on clotheslined the Wolves player. Saturday is gonna be interesting, Onana vs Vicario in battle of the lunatics.
I agree with PowerSpurs. Vicario shouldn't have given him the opportunity, though. It's the last clip in this highlight video: The forward makes a theatrical leap after playing the ball. Should be a warning for the keeper. He was doing risky **** all day. Part of that is down to the system. Postecoglou wants it.
The ref, VAR official and VAR assistant from last night's game have all been dropped for the weekend. I'm sure that will help Wolves a lot.
No idea why this was posted today: Just a reminder that we went 65 years without getting a penalty at Old Trafford. 1955 to 2020, when we finally got one with the score at 5-1 to us, so it didn't matter. That was our first against Utd in all competitions during the Premier League era, IIRC.
The disallowed Pedro Mendes lob against United will always be my favourite. Before goal line technology of course. Was like 3 feet behind the line
I really don't get why refs are so intimidated by the home crowds at Old Trafford or Anfield so are afraid to give decisions against them It's not like there's a history of their fans storming the pitch trying to get their hands on the referee at full time after points were dropped (for, you know, the away team scoring more goals than the home team, or the home team players fouling away team players in the penalty area...) so there's no logical reason for them to act like they're refereeing a Boca Juniors vs River Plate derby with their address being displayed on the scoreboard
Well,I've been a Spurs fan since 1953-4. For the first time I've had to write the team names down.Who are most of them? How embarrassing?
