Just catching up on the Man City game. Not sure about that offside decision. I know they used a reverse angle but that had Clyne deeper than Grealish but the other side had Grealish ahead of Clyne - and neither angle was directly in line with the play…
Ederson yellow card probably just about the right call as Mateta’s touch took him away from goal but if they called that a DGSO I don’t think Man City could have complained, it wasn’t a desperately difficult task for Mateta to turn and shoot on that ball into an empty goal. In fact now I’m watching it a second time and I think it should have been red. I don’t think that was a genuine attempt to play the ball by Ederson and the touch by Mateta - while away from goal - was still a good one that kept the ball close to his feet. He would have a reasonable expectation to score from there. Man City got very lucky.
No question on the offside goal for City, Rodri clearly interferring with play by attempting to touch the ball.
Palace first goal is very poor by Dias, allows himself to get ran past way too easily, little pressure on Palace to play out from the back either. Just looked complacent.
Definite penalty for Palace, embarrassing to see Guardiola complaining about it.
Finally, I know its been said often before, but that stadium literally had hundreds of visibly empty seats in the front rows behind the goal. That’s not a good look for the PL that their “best” team cannot fill a stadium. Oh but they ha e the highest commercial revenue of any club in the world, of course
More of a obvious goalscoring chance, with no keeper, than Virg’s one when Isak has then gotta beat Ali.
The issue is with the moving toward goal etc. part of the reasoning, as everyone would say it was a better opportunity to score than my reference above.
Yeah rule seems to assume that a Premier League footballer is not capable of redirecting the ball goalwards without breaking stride - which is clearly pretty laughable.
I’d prefer Mateta’s chance at my level rather than having to beat a goalie at Isak’s angle, then counter in that it is a super human keeper and really Isak’s isn’t really a chance lol
I have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and it blows my mind some of these guys are still playing after collapses. I was told to stop playing when I was 10 with no symptoms!
I think people tend to over-romanticise our title-winning/challenging teams and forget how rubbish they were at times. No doubt, the same will be done of this season once it’s behind us.
