Obviously it's very early days, but Keith Andrews must be a strong candidate to be the first manager to lose his job. Really weird appointment, and losing Mbuemo (and probably Wissa) will be painful.
Yep, losing Frank, Bryan and Yohan, along the odd internal appointment risks putting 'em in jeopardy. I wonder if the fact that over the past two seasons, 6 out of 6 of the promoted teams going straight back down without much of ripple, has made them somewhat less risk adverse?
They absolutely have no idea, but I am glad they are having a hard time at the moment. Remember one of them crying online about how terrible David Moyes was and how no other club could possibly understand how bad they had it. This was the summer after they won the Conference League by the way. Their fan base deserves it.
The Disallowed Eze goal is an interesting one. It feels like they've used one rule to punish a different action. Pushing the defender out of the way to clear a path for the ball but the they've penalised him for ending up too close to the wall. If he'd just jumped to the side without touching a defender I suspect the goal would have stood. Another rule that was changed for a specific reason and then ends up being used to take some joy out of the game.
Definitely the correct call. Firstly, the rules about the wall have been in place for several seasons and secondly Guehi literally pushed people out of the way so a foul anyway.
It’s the second point that needs addressing. As you say he clearly pushed a player out of the way, so that in itself should have been enough to rule the goal out without needing to use the 1 metre rule and VAR. I think the officials and VAR got two decisions wrong at Old Trafford too. I thought the Arsenal goal could have been ruled out because of the player backing into the keeper and then the penalty that wasn’t given despite the Arsenal player definitely kicking a United player’s foot and not the ball. Didn’t there used to be a rule that bodily contact, such as a shoulder barge, was only legal when the ball was within reach of the players? At set pieces, especially corners, players are pushing, pulling or holding before the ball has even been kicked, which is why I get annoyed when a ref stops a corner from being taken to talk to the guilty players. He should let the corner be taken and then penalise the first player he sees committing a foul, imo.
Arsenal goal was fine - didn't see the penaty incident. The keeper wasn't strong enough for the goal, simple as that.
Did the ref allow the crowd to give that penalty? Seemed to be a slow decision and a little bit iffy imo. His arm was actually tucked behind his back and tucked right into his body.
