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tomw24 said:
Players have known for years that if you raise your hands to a player's face it's a sending off. Got no sympathy for Martial. Lamela is a cock however for making such a meal of it.
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Yeah, fair enough. You're right though, if martial goes then Lamela has to go too. No idea what the ref/VAR were thinking. Lamela's elbow was more dangerous than Martial's poke, let alone the dive
 
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tomw24 said:
Players have known for years that if you raise your hands to a player's face it's a sending off. Got no sympathy for Martial. Lamela is a cock however for making such a meal of it.
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What about Shaw? If Martial’s was a red, how on Earth was that only a yellow?
 
tomw24 said:
Because I don't think he got anywhere near that standard in his last season with us.
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He did in other seasons and I believe he had been high in winning back possession last season too.

He became a scapegoat at our place.

he is now in a team with some better quality around him and he can focus on his job. Winning the ball back and giving it to someone to play
 
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fatletiss said:
He did in other seasons and I believe he had been high in winning back possession last season too.

He became a scapegoat at our place.

he is now in a team with some better quality around him and he can focus on his job. Winning the ball back and giving it to someone to play
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True, we never really played him as a pure lone CDM. He looked good, that disciplined role really suits him as he isn't very creative, so can just run around and keep it simple.
 
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fatletiss said:
He did in other seasons and I believe he had been high in winning back possession last season too.

He became a scapegoat at our place.

he is now in a team with some better quality around him and he can focus on his job. Winning the ball back and giving it to someone to play
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We really had a lack of clear role definition at times in midfield. Hojbjerg can be a good ball-winner, and I think he demonstrated in his first season with the club that he can be more of an aggressive, box-to-box type as well. He just can't do both at the same time, and in a two-man midfield with JWP you really need the other person to be more Wanyama than Schneiderlin.
 
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