This is what pisses me off. Klopp was over the top and deserved a sanction (and I'm sure he'd have accepted a ban if it was forthcoming), but Guardiola was equally as bad and not a word has been said about it in the media that I've seen.
Everton 2 points from drop zone. No pressure on lampard??? Lfc only 2 points ahead of them. Pressure on klopp. Funnily enough.
How can VAR confirm that. Even if there's contact, there is no need to fling himself in the air. Contact does not mean a foul.
This is yet another problem with all the technology in the game, imo. Only in real time can you tell if contact is sufficient to impede a player, and even then it's a subjective decision as to whether it's enough to warrant penalising. Slow-motion and freeze-frame is no way to judge. It doesn't seem all that far off before football becomes a non-contact sport. I watched MotD tonight, and I realised just how many decisions I disagreed with - in good faith, I wasn't just being contrary. Imo, the only use VAR has is to alert the officials to things that happen outside of their vision at set pieces and situations where there is too much going on at once for them to keep an eye on. For as long as football is played by and watched by humans we'll disagree over arbitrary decisions.
Apart from when Salah is rugby tackled to the ground. Id love to put some side by side clips together and put them infront of all the referees and ask them to explain how this scenario where Salah is rugby tackled isn’t s foul. But this one where de bruyne is tapped on the ankle is. How about this one where Gabriel has his arm up in the air and stops a cross isn’t a pen, but all these other pens are? And it’s not even just these big decisions. How many times does a defender fall over in their own defensive corner under absolute minimal contact and a foul is given, then you see shirt pulls, holding, pushing from a defender on an attacker and nothing is given.
What can you expect when you hear all the so called "experts" say "he felt contact so he's entitled to go down"? These people influence kids growing up loving football who don't realise how wrong that statement is. All of this stuff, and bad touchline behaviour by coaches (Klopp included) is bringing kids up to play a game I hardly recognise sometimes.
Great shout on Salah tbf. I don't understand why he doesn't get them either, he's never had a 'Gareth Bale' scenario where he got massive media attention for diving so referees stopped giving them, he just never gets them.
