Taiwo looks like he's on speed compared to last year. Very impressive, and his reputation will help us get up the pitch alone. Glass very much half full. The performance with ten men was very good. They wanted that game to end.
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You need to watch the red card offence from the camera angle behind the ball. As Joe falls he has a fistful of Fernandez's shirt and pulls him down; it's clearly a foul. The only argument is whether it was denying a clear goalscoring opportunity.
The fact that Joe didn't at any point argue or claim innocence was telling, I think.
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I think I have changed me mind
VAR should have picked up on this. Shocking that they didn’t..
Chicago: Cross
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Again, you're not looking at the right angle. From behind it's clear that Danilo makes contact.
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This angle is correct. It shows that Man Utd are cheating cunts.
See also wolves game…
Chicago: Watching in slow mo.
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The penalty was well won by Rashford. Unlucky on Danilo, but he put his leg there and Rashford didn’t do anything to manufacture the contact.. maybe he could have avoided it, but nowt wrong with not doing so. I think we’d have been awarded that kick either on-field or after VAR.
Red card was Bollocks. Definitely a foul, but both keeper and defender were covering. If the sides are reversed, I don’t think it’s red.
I reckon we lose that game even if both of those decisions go the other way, so in some sense they might have helped us because instead of chucking away a lead, we got close to a result despite much adversity. If we come out of these early games with the expected points, but an encouraging narrative, that’s good with me.
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Apparently Mr M is furious over the referees performance and is going to complain to the PGMOL.
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Loves a complaint to PGMOL doesn’t he.
The problem is that both the big calls are defensible. The red card is a very orange shade of yellow at best and the penalty isn’t a foul for me but we’ve now been conditioned to accept that that sort of incident is given. Blame the Alan Shearers of this world and their ‘felt contact so entitled to go down/clever play by the striker’ nonsense.
There’s no way we get those calls at the other end but that’s a whole can of worms that the Premier League is never going to open because it kills their product. Especially when they’re still doing damage limitation after Mike Dean’s comments in the week screwed all other refs and (unfairly) brought the theory of conspiracy rather than cock-up into play for every controversial call.
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I preferred VAR last season, where all big moments in the game were thoroughly reviewed. This season they barely seem to bother.
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I dont think VAR could change those, they weren’t clear and obvious errors, just contentious. I thought the penalty was expected in the current interpretation of the rules. I don't think it was a straight red though due to the lack of control and Boly.
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Nah. Last season we started away to Newcastle and Everton and home to West Ham. ManU and Arsenal away are a different level. Also, we spent much of last season threatening the record for fewest away goals- we’ve got three already.
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He set up our first goal by inexplicably giving away a corner which Man Utd then fucked up and led to Taiwo steam-rollering them on the break. Maybe he's playing chess in 4D.
Or maybe he has poor handling, is timid on crosses and, rangey/plastic-man style stretchy shot-stopping aside, isn't quite up to the level.
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Or maybe he’s still settling after barely playing for his last club. Forest fans start writing a player off after 3 games? About as surprising as marginal decisions going to the home team at Old Trafford
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I worry a bit that he doesn’t seem to have the big personality that most of our better goalkeepers have had.
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I will be surprised if we don’t bring in a second new keeper this week
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To be fair I wrote him off after 0 games based on his CV. I'm open to being proved wrong though, as I was with MGW, but I haven't seen anything yet to suggest his arrival represents progress in the goalkeeping position from where we were last season with an England International with cast-iron confidence (not quite as good as he thought maybe, but good enough for us) and a champions league winner.
