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.
The penalty call was a joke, Haaland is in front of cucu because he yanked him out of the way.
The handball is kind of a could care less. It’s accidental so no card, and outside the box so just a free kick (and that close to the box almost never results in a goal). Most people aren’t going to care about it as it very unlikely amounts to anything.
Also he prevents Ederson booting it clear and City gained no advantage at all.
Fucking exactly. Drove me crazy watching it live that the commentators completely ignored the fact that Haaland clearly yanks him off balance initially
I dont see any issue with the refereeing in this match. It could be argued that the penalty was soft, but from the perspective of a Chelsea fan I genuinely think the VAR had a good process for that one.
The on field decision was penalty, because that was genuinely what it looked like from a referees perspective. Haaland got ahead of Cucurella so Cucurella pulled him down.
Looking at the replays, yes, they both had a hold of each other, but cucurella didn’t let go. From the angle that we had it looks like Cucurella panics after Haaland gets ahead of him and just doesn’t let go, and Haaland makes a meal out of the situation. In that position its either Cucurella gets flamed for losing his man (if Haaland gets to the ball and scores) or he manages to at least slow him down enough to allow Silva an easy clearance without Haaland trying to jump ahead.
It wasn’t a good process because they didn’t judge the whole thing. The replays they seemed to use only showed the end of the incident, when cucarella undoubtedly pulled Haaland down. They did not show the start - They both had hold of each other. Haaland then clearly pulls cucarella back so that he can get in front of him. Cucarella doesn’t let go and bundles him over. It’s six of one, Haaland foul of the other.
Not a word about how Cucarella avoids a second yellow for clear simulation or how Dias gets the ball first for the penalty
The bias on Reddit forums is insane
I think Chelsea played quite well but a lot of what they created was off city mistakes , Sterling goal off a terrible composure from gvardiol
And the Jackson goal was awful goalkeeping from ederson.
For me peps gotta take a lot of blame here , you need to shut up shop and control the game but city never did
Jackson’s goal was a result of the power behind connors shot. He had no time to react, he could only block it and hope his defenders go to the rebound first.
For City to make mistakes Chelsea MUST play REALLY well… I just love this way of “seeing” the game. Same as Spurs just got “unlucky” to go down to 9 and not because they just simply couldn’t keep up after the first 15 minutes. Mate, we played so well yesterday that we forced City to start making mistakes and was much closer to winning the game that City was. That is all.
I share this same sentiment about those two goals. Silva’s was a corner kick, and Ruben had a mistimed tackle due to the rain, I suppose. It’s not like Chelsea carved City open. City also had the better chances. Sanchez had better saves
Yeh I think city created two great goals from open play
- akanji header
- haaland tap in
And the. Had the fortune deflection for Rodri’s goal
Is it that much of a reach to say that Chelsea just played really well and made City play the game they wanted them to? This rhetoric that City only lose because they don’t play their best is just lazy.
Football is game of mistakes, city goals were eveb worse- bullshit pen, Silva mistake with akanji, penis goal by haaland and last goal was off silva
We’d never get that Haaland penalty awarded to us. Never, not in a million years.
Why the hell did VAR not show Haaland fouling Cucurella first? It’s so baffling what var choose to show and not show something that literally preceeded the penalty appeal
Haaland did not foul Cucurella first though?
Cucurella grabbed Haalands arm and Haaland grabs his arm then let go a second later whilst Cucurella panicked because Haaland made a move and got infront of him so he pulled him down.
Last week joelinton push was not enough they said 😂 but this is a pen
I still don’t understand how Haaland received a penalty for initiating contact with Cucurella first
City had the same penalty for two weeks in a row while no one else in the league got that penalty even though it happens every game Jota did the same thing twice against Brentford and nothing happened
Tbh I just think there’s corruption going on but I can only point fingers
Always city and Newcastle on the right end of var.
So Cucurella should get away with manhandled players in the box. He also held Rodri for the first Chelsea goal, otherwise he was odds on to get to the ball before Silva
if Rodri would have thrown himself at the ground VAR would 100% take a look at it… and I think I’d known the decision they would take
So Cucurella should get away with manhandling players in the box. He also held Rodri for the first Chelsea goal, otherwise he was odds on to get to the ball before Silva
That game was officiated well, get over it. There is fair criticism going around for quite a few games this year but this was not one of them.
For the most part, the penalty was inexcusable.
Both players tussled, then Haaland gets by and Cucurella pulls him, Haaland goes down. Sure it’s soft but it is a foul. Had Cucurella not touched him he was in for a contested header with Thiago Silva. Does that foul not get called all the time? Sure. Is it still a foul? Yes.
The problem with VAR is that it takes these medium fouls, could go either way depending on the referee, and it lets un analyze them. This is a medium call, be okay with these sorts of calls, and only complain when major decisions, like the Sheffield penalty vs. Wolves and Liverpool VAR goal.
Haaland is not about to contest Silva for that header whatsoever. And there is a worse foul by Doku seconds before.
Man city’s Arab money bought the league a long time ago
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
Deluded take. Also the call was soft af.
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.
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.
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…
😂
Handball outside the box not being called seems to happen almost every game - from the hard to notice to blindingly obvious like Walker, and Saka the other week.
However, with the “soft penalty” Haaland won, no one seems to be talking about the handball by Caicedo (?) In the box immediately beforehand. Why wasn’t it called for that? Granted, he was pushed but if that wasn’t considered a foul then why wasn’t it given as handball?
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.
To be fair, City were missing KDB and Stones so neither side was really at full strength for this one.
Liverpool is never not tying with Chelsea, it is written in the stars