EPL - Matchweek 9 (we're back baby!)

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Hilarious from Romero lol

 

[bluesfan94]

Loloris

They say he walks on water
and turns it into wine
Oh I believe in Jesus
The Arsenal number 9.

Best striker in the match puts one home and doesn't even need the penalty spot to do so.

 

[hatterson]

Saliba might be the best CB in the EPL actually.

Top 3 for sure.

If Arteta hadn't kept him in Siberia for 2 years, there's a good chance Arsenal are in the CL right now.

 

[KJS14]

If Arteta hadn't kept him in Siberia for 2 years, there's a good chance Arsenal are in the CL right now.

Not defending that decision, but they should have made CL regardless. Bottled it.

 

[Satan]

ARRRRRRRSENAL

 

[King Makar19]

That was a clear Pen.

No respect.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Forster should have started. Lloris rushed back and having a mare.

 

[bluesfan94]

Looked like Jesus got clipped in the box there without a call, but I'm starting to make tailgating food and only caught one replay

 

[hatterson]

It's hilarious how Spurs have so many players back behind the ball and still get pried open by almost every single simple overlapping run.

Looked like Jesus got clipped in the box there without a call, but I'm starting to make tailgating food and only caught one replay

He had already well lost the ball and then went down, then Romero accidentally stepped on his foot. Just a random accident, no real appeals for a pen (nor should there have been)

 

[hatterson]

Emerson Royal is such an awful player. There is zero reason he should be starting for a top flight team.

Clear red to me.

 

[bluesfan94]

The ref actually gave a red for that??? It was orange but the ref had been calling nothing on Tottenham

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Very harsh red.

 

[bluesfan94]

He had already well lost the ball and then went down, then Romero accidentally stepped on his foot. Just a random accident, no real appeals for a pen (nor should there have been)

That makes sense. I saw it out of the corner of my eye while I was dicing onions

Very harsh red.

I don't think it was that harsh. Raked Martinelli's leg from behind with his studs

 

[hatterson]

On replay the red is maybe a bit harsh, but it's hard to complain when you go studs on a guys ankle 4 feet away from the ball.

 

[Satan]

XHAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[HoseEmDown]

I thought VAR checked all reds? What's the point of VAR, to check offsides by a few cm's?

 

[hatterson]

lmao Dier's defending is hilarious.

 

[maclean]

There we go

 

[bluesfan94]

I thought VAR checked all reds? What's the point of VAR, to check offsides by a few cm's?

It does check all reds. It wasn't a clear and obvious error to give a studs up challenge from behind into someone's leg a red card. Like I said, I thought it was orange and wouldn't have been upset if it only resulted in a yellow, but it was a pretty bad challenge

 

[hatterson]

I thought VAR checked all reds? What's the point of VAR, to check offsides by a few cm's?

They check everything. It's hard to argue that's a "clear and obvious error" though. You could argue it's harsh, but it's not a clear error.

 

[HoseEmDown]

They check everything. It's hard to argue that's a "clear and obvious error" though. You could argue it's harsh, but it's not a clear error.

So if they check it why didn't they have Taylor go back and look at the monitor? At first he looked like he wasn't even gonna give a yellow then Martinelli started acting like his ankle was broken so he gave the red.

 

[hatterson]

So if they check it why didn't they have Taylor go back and look at the monitor? At first he looked like he wasn't even gonna give a yellow then Martinelli started acting like his ankle was broken so he gave the red.

VAR only sends the referee to the monitor if it's a "clear and obvious" error. It doesn't matter if the official took 10 minutes to make the decision at first, if the actual decision wasn't a clear and obvious error (which this wouldn't have been either way) they're not sending him to the monitor.

 

[Blender]

 

[HoseEmDown]

It does check all reds. It wasn't a clear and obvious error to give a studs up challenge from behind into someone's leg a red card. Like I said, I thought it was orange and wouldn't have been upset if it only resulted in a yellow, but it was a pretty bad challenge

It wasn't studs up from behind. He was on the side of him and mistimed his attempt on the ball and got the ankle. Wasn't malicious and fouls like that happen a lot without a red. A yellow would have been fine.

 

[hatterson]

Kane is such a scumbag player.

It wasn't studs up from behind. He was on the side of him and mistimed his attempt on the ball and got the ankle. Wasn't malicious and fouls like that happen a lot without a red. A yellow would have been fine.

You could certainly argue that a yellow would have been fine, but in the end it was studs full on the back of the ankle a solid 3-4 feet away from where the ball was. It's not like he missed the ball by an inch, he wasn't even close to it. It's really hard to complain about a red when you do that.