Skrtel is probably the worst at it if I'm honest, so I'm not saying it like you probably read it
But for 2 players to do it and not be seen, was very lucky. No question every team has a man handler, but consideing Shawcross got ****ed over by it I was surprised to have not seen anything given. I think Skrtel has been spoken to about it recently as he doesn't seem as bad, but at one point he has doing it at every chance possible.
Imo I think Shawcross was the one treated harshly.
In both cases the attacking player was shoving the defender and the defender was largely trying to maintain their balance. The defender is essentially powerless, as either they allow the attacker to push them off balance and score, or they try and fight back and it gets picked up by the ref and / or pundits.
If Smalling had just fallen over when Ivanovic gave him the first shove then we would have conceded a goal and everyone would now be saying he should have been stronger. No chance we'd have gotten a free kick for that, so I can certainly see why Chelsea wouldn't get a penalty.
) was MOTM, Hazard skipped round your players for fun most of the game - just got greedy when a few times could have played someone in on goal, which often is his downfall tbh.
