In some other very important game we didn’t even got a freekick for studs to the chest so we should think ourselves lucky 
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to be fair McCallister did enter the space (or some other garbage)
best one i remember about arse covering was the ‘you can see Jota slow down to initiate the contact’…he slowed down to shoot FFS
greatest comment of all time…‘good process lads’
bah.
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Wirtz is a lucky boy he didn’t get a red for coming into Gomez’s space like that
https://x.com/onescouse/status/2000053348087840871?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g
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Actually, he was OK apart from the fact that he didn’t show him the yellow immediately. It looked like he was consulting with VAR before he decided on which card to give, whereas I believe he is meant to make a decision first and VAR can check.
Edit - I suppose he could have been consulting with his pitch-side assistant. The delay still seemed weird. It was only confirmed by the commentators at half time.
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Well, referee has only applied the same criterion as in situations when Mings went kung-fu on Gakpo or when Doku did the same to Mac Allister. This is actually a positive development when it comes to the improvement of refereeing performance and consistency, so I’m not really sure what you’re getting at here.
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The ball was gone before he lifted his leg. Even if he was trying to slow his own momentum, don’t do it with a foot high up on the opponent’s chest. That looked awful, so dangerous.
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Im generally ok with Pawson it’s not a great decision.
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