In summary, 1. Estupinian playing further upfield to free up Mitoma and give Porro a problem, 2. Kulesevski having to do the DM work of two players because Maddison stood near the halfway line and watched from a distance instead of doing defensive work, 3. Rutter outfought three Tottenham players for the third goal because he wanted it more (as did all the other Brighton players), and 4. Romero and Porro stood like statues as Welbeck ran past them to head the winner.
Well... there's a band name if I ever saw one.
You also forgot Danny's header, which was only just wide.
The way you are arguing it every goal is due to a high like as we have one. It's like saying all the goals we conceed are due to having a goalkeeper.
I have all 3 of their Rough trade albums on vinyl, mate.
I wonder if we'll become a little more relaxed about the high line when the semi-automated offside detection comes in (after whichever international break that is) and these apparent breaks of the line are called back before the ball is in the back of the net. Watching the "goal" then hoping for the VAR decision is stressful for fans and can't be much fun for the keeper and defenders either.
Are you sure about that? I distinctly remember Hemed’s winning header spinning over the line in front of the North Stand after the keeper had blocked it.
The semi automated VAR doesn’t give offside in real time, does it? Goals will still be scored; it’ll just make the VAR check quicker.
Oh, maybe not. I didn't pay enough attention to that funny winter World Cup to see how it was used. From somewhere I got the impression that the technology was able to keep up with play and give an instant assessment of offside calls, so I imagined it working something like the goal-line decisions and signalling the linos when it was correct to flag for a marginal offside. They could still put up the fancy visuals to "prove" the correctness of the call while we wait for the resulting free kick.
