[Albion] Manchester City vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[1066familyman]

I'm afraid it was.

That's outrageous! Silva purposely dangled his leg out. Never a penalty in a million years.

How long did it take to bring it back for the ref to have a look? Must have been a good 2 minutes?

 

[willalbion]

Agree it was not exactly a crazy call. Some clumsy defending. Sanchez tackle on Haaland could also have been a penalty. Two 50/50s, one decision went well for Brighton and the other didn't. It is what it is.

If that was in the other penalty area, with Tross or someone not getting a penalty, people here would have been furious about the decision.

Naturally - it’s a partisan sport. My city supporting mate is insisting all 3 were stonewall pens.

 

[jcdenton08]

I thought it was a very poor penalty decision, and I’m not one for judging referees/VAR too harshly. I think we’ve been given a raw deal there.

No problem with the first goal, Haaland is just stronger and quicker than Webster, who is having a bit of a nightmare out there.

Welbeck very poor yet again, how is he the first name on the team sheet?

Let’s keep it to a 3-goal loss with no injuries or suspensions and get Undav on at half time for a proper look. Be nice to see Enciso or Sarmiento too.

 

[raymondo]

The joke with the second goal was the ref blowing to go and look at the screen, wait until it goes out of play FFS.

Yeah but we might have scored... that would have been tricky for the ref

 

[Justice]

Just clocked it’s Lee Mason on VAR this clown shouldn’t be anywhere near PL football

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Man City are one of the best teams in the world. EPL championes-in-waiting. As always - apart from the BDB match winnah at the Amex - we'll do well to hold them to the traditional 4-0 reversal. Them's the rules

 

[maltaseagull]

The joke with the second goal was the ref blowing to go and look at the screen, wait until it goes out of play FFS.

He was in a hurry to be conned by Da Silva.

 

[trueblue]

The joke with the second goal was the ref blowing to go and look at the screen, wait until it goes out of play FFS.

But as the whole screen thing is a charade and they give the VAR's decision 99.9% of the time, why wait? If we score in the meantime and then they disallow it to give City a penalty, it would be even worse.

 

[raymondo]

Naturally - it’s a partisan sport. My city supporting mate is insisting all 3 were stonewall pens.

You need new mates

 

[banjo]

Never a pen.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Naturally - it’s a partisan sport. My city supporting mate is insisting all 3 were stonewall pens.

He's a wanker then

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Apart from the mistake I thought we have played relatively well first half, RDZ ball seems to be coming through, more fluid and faster and we have broken the press a number of times.

The question is where do we go from here.

Maybe time to inject some flair get in their box more down the sides and look for contact. If we get a couple of weak penalties f*** em.

 

[boik]

We've played OK and not been embrarrassed so far. About as much as you can hope for really. VAR is grating but won't actually affect the result in this one.

 

[Dibdab]

I really don’t think it was a foul on Webster and Sanchez has let us down big time for the first but that pen was pathetic. Silva has left his leg out to deliberately contact Dunk. No way should VAR have called that an obvious error.

Other than that we’ve done ok but in the few opportunities in the final third of the pitch our decision making and quality has been bad. Gross and Trossard very poor yet again.

 

[trueblue]

Not sure why people are moaning, yes, a dodgy pen decision, but they should have had one earlier in the game.

Not really. What VAR should have done was go with the on-field ref's decision as it was borderline. As they did earlier and for the first goal, where they decided Haaland knocking over Webster wasn't clear enough to intervene.

 

[maltaseagull]

Apart from the mistake I thought we have played relatively well first half, RDZ ball seems to be coming through, more fluid and faster and we have broken the press a number of times.

The question is where do we go from here.

Maybe time to inject some flair get in their box more down the sides and look for contact. If we get a couple of weak penalties f*** em.

US?
Get a penalty at the Etihad?

No way on Earth.

 

[1066familyman]

What a heap of shit that second goal was. Looked a nailed on penalty in real time, var then spends an eternity while play still goes on to review it, has the benefit of seeing Silva stick his leg out and decides to send the ref to the monitor. WTF took it so long?! What would have happened if we had scored in the time it took var to decide it was a penalty?

I'm not convinced it was a penalty but I can live with it being one but why did it take so long to decide? It's bollocks.

Apart from that we've been ok although we're at risk of getting turned over. Do we try and get back in the game and get done on the counter or do we try and minimise the damage and invite the best team in Europe to attack us at will? What a choice!

It's a fecking joke decision! And even more of a joke for the amount of time it must have taken to bring it back. Dodgy stream isn't helping me here.

Keep playing the way we're playing. We're doing ok. I don't care if we lose by 2 or 4 or 5. I'm pleased we play without fear that really isn't tipping over into naivety.

 

[SweatyMexican]

Oooh look at me, I’m Haaland and I score lots of goals!

What a sad little life mate, grow up.

 

[highflyer]

Regardless of whether these decisions were right or wrong, if the half ends with three VAR decisions that JC & WA can argue were all wrong, then VAR is not making decisions any less subjective than they were without technology. As this was the reason it was introduced, it is doing nothing. Get rid of the whole charade and just admit that referees will do their best, but are fallible.

Why do they keep it? And indeed, have introduced it in Scotland. When the vast majority of fans, pundits players would say its not working, get rid. Who benefits from keeping it? Is it a pride thing? Is there money involved? There seems to be an assumption that it's here to stay. But why?
It's obviously making the game worse.

 

[raymondo]

Apart from the mistake I thought we have played relatively well first half, RDZ ball seems to be coming through, more fluid and faster and we have broken the press a number of times.

The question is where do we go from here.

Maybe time to inject some flair get in their box more down the sides and look for contact. If we get a couple of weak penalties f*** em.

Good plan, but sadly I don't think we'll get any weak pens today... we're wearing the wrong colour shirts