Did you actually watch the replays. He clearly gets a nick on the ball before making the slightest of contact with the attackers foot, he also is trying to pull out his peg at this point. The attacker caused the contact just as much as the defender. This isn’t a foul anywhere on the pitch and shouldn’t be a foul ever. He wins the ball clean and only makes slight contact with the forward causing him no harm or danger whatsoever.
Nah its not the officials either its the actual rules of football. Far too many vague rules that can be interpreted differently to other people. Football really needs to get far better terminology in the rules and take away subjective much as possible. Like the joelinton foul last week I think it should go something like this. Did he put hands on opponents? Yes. did he impede or prevent opponent from getting the ball? Yes. Did his action effect the situation? Yes. Did he use too much force? Yes. So from that I can only take that to be a foul so moving forward we know that is a foul and why it’s a foul. Follow this process or similar each time and we will start getting more consistent decisions given. At the moment refs basically just make up there mind as they go along and 1 red will think it’s a foul and the other won’t. Football needs to change to rules so that there is simply no debating things like putting 2 hands on a defenders neck in his 6 yard box. I mean it’s so obvious that it’s a foul yet actual professionals in the world of football somehow think its OK to do this.
This argument is so old and so stupid imo. It’s like saying would like to see Lewis Hamilton win a grand prix in a skoda. Ok that’s prob a bad example but let’s flip your scenario how well would city do under emery? He would do nothing near what pep has done imo.
It’s almost as if xg is a pretty shitty stat to base things off
Palmer all day imo. Better technically and I feel Gordon is as good or just about ad hood as he will get where I feel palmer has the ability to just keep growing and be one top drawer
Is anyone actually surprised by this? Like when I heard he was going back to Palace yet again I just honestly felt sorry for Palace fans. Roy has seen better days and tbh managers have moved on a lot. The standard of managers in the pl is very high imo and Roy just falls way short of the mark. We have pep, klopp, then arteta, emery, howe, ten haag, de zerbi, ange all clearly better than Roy and that’s just of the top of my head. Palace need a newer manager to make use of some of the really talented players u have