Most people turned to congratulate Chelsea for the fascinating game, but indeed Manchester City has a few advantages over key decisions. The most apparent controversies were the soft penalty awarded again, and no foul for the handball. Sadly if the standard of refereeing is normal, Chelsea should deserve a win.
Handball on Walker ?
Not giving that was the right decision and if it was anyone but city, no one would mention it.
this is becoming a weekly occurrence for City. the bias for them has been bad for the last couple of seasons but it seems like they’ve benefitted from huge calls every week now since the Arsenal match (Kovacic).
Or maybe, just maybe your team are the biggest bottlers in europe who cant cope with the pressure of being in a title race
log off, nephew. football existed before September 2008.
Your banter club still has 0 ucl before 2008😂😂. Cry more
When was the last time you saw a controversial call go *against* City?
The city pen was a fucking joke.
But you know what, I love mostly that Chelsea didn’t whine about it. Coach didn’t whine, players didn’t whine. That’s a focused team.
The Cucarella penalty was a testament to how officiating has been for City all season.
Chelsea are good guys now? Ken Bates opened the box for what the EPL has become and Roman paved the road with no remorse. He left the club in £2bn debt which was wiped off and a whole load of financial accounts which would leave Man City in awe.
It wasn’t a soft pen, it was a foul by Haaland 1st
People will say “oh the defender touched him 1st”, yes he touched him and that’s not a foul what he did but Haaland yanked him to gain position which was
r/titlegore
I am getting a bit done with refereeing this season, it’s been worse than ever.
The Haaland Cucurella incident is just another one in the list of very soft penalties for city alone this season. It’s also another one where Dermot Shitforbrains is arguing it was a penalty for the same reasons he said whatever wasn’t a penalty last week. He’s an embarrassment, it’s remarkable Sky are yet to realise.
The handball incident(s) probably aren’t worth consideration.
But, as OP states. It would have been an injustice for Chelsea to come away with nothing yesterday.
Have a look at the first Chelsea goal. Cucurella likes holding and doing all sorts of rubbish. That was a penalty. Haaland would have gotten to that ball
He was behind the man who did get to that ball, zero chance of him getting to it.
To quote the brain dead twat that is Dermot Gallagher; it’s just good, physical defending.
I, like others presume you have never played football. Defending is not losing your man, whilst not losing sight of the ball. That’s what Cucurella did, Haaland tried to pull him over and Cucurella stood his ground.
Your lot (I presume you’re a new fan) have already had a lot of decisions your way this season. Liverpool get them because they’re scared of Klopp, try to give me an answer why they’re going your way?
The funny thing in this, Pep is one of my favourite people in football and always has been (not so much as a player, I was too young and the match fixing is a bit of a red flag).
So, I’m a United fan who is actually obsessed with Pep and his take on football. So, in a weird non-direct way I don’t entirely dislike the club I played for until I was 14, all of which despite being a United fan. But, there’s something at play this season. Rules seem to be being bent far too regularly and far too often in your favour.
Liverpool who had a red rescinded, and a second red called incorrect by an independent panel?
Liverpool who had a goal stolen due to incompetence/straight up match fixing?
Liverpool who didn’t get an opponent sent off because Soboslai was “facing sideways rather than forward “when yanked to the floor by the last defender with the ball at his feet getting ready to shoot from 10 yards out?
You really picked the wrong club to say “some get decisions because xyz…
😂
I played Center and left back for most of my time playing, the first tug from both was an equal foul canceling foul type moment but then he was wrapping his arms on him when pulling him down. I think ultimately it’s a call that can go either way and the refs chose the penalty. I probably would have said it shouldn’t have been a penalty but the foul is there so it isn’t wrong to call the pen.
Deluded take. Also the call was soft af.
Sterling not sent off for endangering Foden, Cucurella not sent off with second yellow for some of the most egregious simulation you will ever see (right after Doku was given a yellow for simulation), Caicedo being allowed to foul repeatedly on a yellow, Gallagher not getting a yellow after committing six or more fouls (at least one of them worthy of a yellow on its own), and Chelsea awarded a penalty at the death to equalise (I think it was an obvious penalty, but if City are paying off the refs surely Taylor doesn’t give it on the technicality of Dias getting the ball).
But yeah, there is a conspiracy to help City that is so clandestine every Tom, Dick, and Bertrand not only knows about it, but start five threads a day in this sub to discuss it.
^ Clutching at straws. You guys got gifted a goal. Nothing compares against that. Just admit that you would have lost without Taylor and enjoy your league position
I honestly hate the trend of where if public opinion states that one team got the rub of the green from the refs in a match their fans come out and try and sensationalise literally any decision that could possibly have gone against them to ‘both sides’ it.
Sterling’s was never a red, yellow all day long and he was booked for it. Cucurella was dodging a bad tackle and literally didn’t even appeal for a free kick. Caicedo committed a whopping 3 fouls in the entire match etc.
Don’t get me wrong people banging on about conspiracies is dumb, but City in this match did get the rub of the green, and I can see why people are funny about them considering the financial fuckery on top of referees going off to the middle east to get paid on the side.
Cucurella is a dickhead
It’s hard to not see corruption of the refs regarding man city. The season they didn’t give a clear penalty in the box to Everton, obvious not offside goal disallowed to Luis Diaz, and countless other calls are in favor of Man City. These weren’t wrong decisions that were somehow missed, we had video of them as clear as day and the calls were the opposite of what would be expected by any normal human being with working eyes. I guess when you can pay 100M for bench players, paying off a couple refs is no problem as well.
. I guess when you can pay 100M
name them
You can’t just blame city every time a team with an outside chance of winning the league has a call go against them. It’s tinfoil hat territory….
There’s no handball because it’s Ederson who shoots at Walker. There’s no benefit for City as Walker blocks the clearance. If he blocks a Chelsea player’s ball, then it’s a handball.
We should’ve beaten all 3 of Arsenal, Liverpool, and City. This is Chelsea no where near its full strength.
Liverpool is never not tying with Chelsea, it is written in the stars
To be fair, City were missing KDB and Stones so neither side was really at full strength for this one.
The 21st century is the age of paranoia, conspiracy theories and the weak minded feeling like completely hopeless victims. State of this world.