Moment of the game? Look where he starts his run and where he ends up.
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And to add insult to injury he got a yellow for taking his shirt off
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Reported.
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Konate was said not to be too far away ā¦ he is expected to return this week - is likely to be in the team for United (assuming he wonāt be risked against Sparta even if he is ready by then).
CBs are rarely versatile. But Gomez is one that is. Well, in any case, Gomez is our most versatile player, our Swiss army knife, effectively taking Milnerās role this season. We know he can play CB, RB, LB, imverted full-back, no. 6 etc. We would have been doomed already if he was not so versatile.
But what is important: Trent should be back after the international break. So for the run-in - if no new injuries arise - we will have two RBs (Trent, Bradley), two LBs (Robbo, Tsimi) and three CBs (VVD, Ibou, Quansah), in addition to Gomez - who might be then able to play CB mostly. And if we can effectively rotate four CBs and four full-backs, no one would be run into the ground. Especially as defence was the only department where we at least had some rotational options in the last three weeks, unlike midfield and attack.
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Iām sure it must be VARs intervention to upgrade Jones yellow to a red (which also included a still image of the contact being made, which is against protocol).
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No. Despite how much we all hated it, all the authorities determined that was not an incorrect decision.
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Also, almost all VAR cases they have viewed to be incorrect were failures to overturn a decision. I think there were only 2 cases viewed to have been interventions that should not have been made.
I think we can all guess what boxset Doku watched Saturday night before Sundayās game -
I thought the independent panel ruled that it was a mistake and should have remained a yellow.
No. Maybe youāre thinking about Jota as they did determine that second yellow was a bad decision (as commented above, they didnt consider the first, as only second yellows are considered Key Match Events). Also remember that we appealed Jonesā red and it got immediately turned down. That is in contrast to Alexisā that was over turned on appeal.
I love that effort. heās my favorite right now.
There continue to be detractors of the āinverted FBā approach. There are people who still, even in his absence, seem to view it as a very TrentCentric approach designed to get him on the ball in the middle of the pitch. This thread here lays out the bigger point of it - itās about getting more bodies into the positions on the pitch where the counter pressing tends to happen
https://x.com/Jon_Mackenzie/status/1767239049394209152?s=20
The argument here: for most of the first half we were pretty traditional, one FB given licence to get forward (and stay wide) and the other staying back and pinching in. But the result was we often lacked enough players around the ball when we lost of counter press effectively. Sometime after Cityās goal we started pushing Gomez into midfield more (requiring Bradley to drop in more, possibly why he was taken off later in favour of Robbo), which then allowed Maca and Szobo the ability to push on when we didnt have the ball and the result was we made things a LOT harder for City to play from there on.
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Just watched ref watch what the hell is Gallagher on about 6 minutes of talking without saying nothing twat.
That was my favourite part in the game not counting the penaly we scored
The man who avoided 3 yellow cards says the ref who has a side gig for his clubās owner had a good game
https://x.com/SkySportsPL/status/1767219067201429827?s=20
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makes you wonder what they teach at his āacademyā.
better yet, who bankrolls it. 
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Oh shut up you breederā¦
You only have yourself to blame Iām afraid.
Thatās so French