It was stopped because he gave a freekick.
There was no freekick on Freddie, you have to play on.
You can’t immediately stop a game everytime it looks like someone is injured that would kill the game completely.
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Well that’s more or less what he did every time a Palace player went down.
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Suarez can kill someone and still be regarded as a hero in our club by some but for some others in our club, all you need is to lose some games and you be treated like as if you killed someone.
First he was hurt and in pain from his foot getting caught in the turf. Luckily he was able to continue, but was clearly in pain.
2nd he tried to get back up and fell back down as Munoz shot…
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If anything Cody should have clouted Munoz harder.
The win was the important thing, some good individual performances,Particularly Woodman,Jones,and that decrepit old bugger Andy,didn’t have a bad one, either. 
otherwise not very inspiring.
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Yes, for a foul.
cant stop the game for anything thats not a head injury.
it wasnt a foul or a head injury.
30 years ago i would understand the outrage, but its the era of modern arsenal…players have bought this upon themselves by play acting every 5 minutes only to continue. they have no one to blame but themselves…ive seen Macca role around on the floor for 30 seconds whilst the game goes on around him only to get up and keep playing.
the more this shit costs teams…ourselves included, the quicker it will be stamped out.
im not going to praise Munoz…but in the end, he was probably doing us a favour, i hope we learn from it.
extending this further, itd be ironic if it was exactly this type of goal that Arsenal eventually concede from, that costs them the league… that would be justice in my mind…
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Moral is important in life and sport. Sadly we will not see things like this in modern football…
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The best thing about the game was the goals , obviously. Still I thought we were very lucky to go in two up at half time. I missed the first twenty of the second half , were we as shite in that period as I suspect we were ?
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Having managed to avoid the score all evening, I watched the game last night, and using my highly technical football compression technique or skipping the stream on by 30 seconds every time Palace had a dead ball, was able to get through the game in a tidy 50mins, giving mr plenty of time to catch up here.
A couple of reflections.
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Very surprised at the negativity here. There was nothing about the game that warranted the cynicism and whinging in the match threads. It was a very comfortable, routine win; and there was even some mitigation about their goal. Palace opened stronger and had the best of the first ten, but we took control after that and never looked in any real danger. It remains a little worrying how easy opposition find it to progress from their area to the final third. But we defended everything 30 yards from our goal very well. It now seems that anything less than twatting a team 5-0 isn’t good enough. This season has properly broken us.
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Curtis Jones was absolutely outstanding. I said that in the Derby he was equally brilliant and infuriating. Today he cut out all the annoying shit, and just delivered a really mature, commanding performance from right back.
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Freddie Woodman was also great, did what he needed to do, made a couple of saves and wasn’t really exposed. Only criticism was that his longer distribution was appalling, but what do you want from a third choice?
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Three league wins on the bounce, and we find ourselves eight points clear of Brighton, with four to play. I think three more points from the last twelve would do it, but we should definitely be looking up the table at this point rather than down it.
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On that goal, I’m not having that Munoz should be doing anything other than putting the ball in the net in that situation. They are 2-0 down and we would expect no less of our players. But refereeing is inconsistent on this, and they have stopped play in similar situation for injured keepers this season.
Our players were clearly expecting the game to stop, and were probably trying to force it that way, and maybe need a reminder to play to the whistle.
The problem with stopping the game for injured keepers is that you’ll have keepers like Raya and Pickford dropping like flies at any kind of knock, in order to force a stoppage, and footballers and managers have shown how thick they are with matters of safety and welfare with the head injury protocol. It would become another matter for them to game.
Thankfully it was academic in the end.
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Exactly correct. Just happy that it didn’t matter in the end.
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That is easily delt with by the M.O’s adding time for these stoppages.
Don’t personally give a fuck if Added Time goes from 5 minutes to 25-30 minutes for games if keepers want to try fucking around like that.
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The problem is that you would get keepers feigning death to cause the game to be stopped in an attacking phase.
I think with Woodman, it hit his knee, which is a bit like banging your elbow: it takes a minute or two for the nerve endings to reset.
It’s bad enough with players feigning head injuries to stop play. In fact, I would like to see a yellow card when they do that with no contact because it is abusing an important safety protocol.
Yesterday, one of our players should have had the gumption to cover the goalline when it was obviously exposed.
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You must have fast forwarded the bit where he needlessly lost possession in our box and nearly handed them a goal then.
He was good, but far from perfect. Lovely pass to Robbo though.
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I have mixed feelings about this.
We were playing a team that has caused us problems in the past and we coped well with their threat. Konaté for example I felt did well enough yet he gets criticised in the same manner as for other games where he was awful.
My biggest problem with this match was how much better CP were moving the ball at the back. We on the other hand struggled and played long balls far too much. Our midfielders just don’t push the ball forward. Do they even know where each other are on the pitch let alone our attackers.
Isak did nothing but score a goal (from an atrocious attempt from Macca) and a little tussle with Mateta at a CP corner.
Nice to see Wirtz stay on for 90 minutes.
Robbo’s goal was fantastic 
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So a weak first 20 minutes and last 10 minutes. It’s worrying we can not keep any real domination or pressure on for more than 5 minutes.
So imo an improved performance however how much is that forced by our restricted selection possibilities?
More importantly why are we at this stage soon late in the season.
There’s only 2 teams in the title race and neither of them looks good, yet the quality is still there? 
Whilst possible, if the time is added onto the end of the game, then the chance of the attacking team gaining another opportunity would make it a tactic that only gets used a couple of times until they are forced to play a game with 15-20 added minutes and managers will realise it is a fucked tactic when outfield players start having to be rested more due to fatigue.
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Munoz goal is a tough call. On the one hand he does nothing wrong but at the same time you’d hope for a bit more sportsmanship.
This isn’t one of those where there’s an attacker lying on the floor in the other box where there’s little chance of them influencing the goal. He has the time to take a touch, look at the keeper on the floor obviously in some distress and then shoot. It’s a very conscious decision to take advantage of the keeper being hurt.
It’s obvious Woodman hasn’t gone down in the hope of getting play stopped because they’ve got this great chance. There’s no reason for him to stop other than he’s hurt.
Saying that, you play to the whistle and we didn’t.
The fact he celebrated the goal makes him an even bigger prick imo.
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