No way. If you're going to give reds for a foul on the halfway line we'll be playing 7 a side soon enough. The xG of that must have been 0.2 at best.Ref bottled it, should be a red. Open goal means it is a clear goal scoring opportunity.
No way. If you're going to give reds for a foul on the halfway line we'll be playing 7 a side soon enough. The xG of that must have been 0.2 at best.Ref bottled it, should be a red. Open goal means it is a clear goal scoring opportunity.
Agreed.Were those commentators paid by the Welsh FA to drool all over the very average Welsh side.
"Oh it had to be Bale, he writes his own scripts". "The Welsh fans and the players are like a team together". "Yes that's the Welsh crowd you can hear". f*** sake
Don't forget he scores when he wants......which is not strictly true as every game would be 9-0 to Wales...Were those commentators paid by the Welsh FA to drool all over the very average Welsh side.
"Oh it had to be Bale, he writes his own scripts". "The Welsh fans and the players are like a team together". "Yes that's the Welsh crowd you can hear". f*** sake
Me too, preventing a goalscoring opportunity.Good foul, but I'd have given him a red
What's silly? It was a goal scoring opportunity.Don’t be silly
A reckless tackle by a tired second/third rate US defender and suddenly Bale goes from “not noticed” to a super hero (altho I suppose compared to his Welsh team mates he is)A proper 'Gareth' of the Rovers performance with players playing with heart
Nowhere near that even…….No way. If you're going to give reds for a foul on the halfway line we'll be playing 7 a side soon enough. The xG of that must have been 0.2 at best.
Using that logic so is almost every free touch of the ball.What's silly? It was a goal scoring opportunity.
Wales were down and out at half time , second half much better but nothing really decisive he then wins them a point by 'winning' the penalty and then scoring from the spot. So yes a super hero cause he got them a result.....A reckless tackle by a tired second/third rate US defender and suddenly Bale goes from “not noticed” to a super hero (altho I suppose compared to his Welsh team mates he is)
Don't be daft. We all know Bale had a chance to score because it was within shooting range and there was no keeper in the goal.Using that logic so is almost every free touch of the ball.
Yeah, because goalkeepers are usually in their goal. You only have to go back to the Euros to see Scotland's keeper on sabbatical, followed by some comedic chasing the ball into his own net.There's a reason that halfway line goals make headlines for weeks - because they're as rare as rocking horse shit.
Hope you wiped up afterwards.I had a bit of a dabble watching this.
I hate to break it to but this is exactly what happens when England are playing but you don't notice it thenAgreed.
"HE'S A FREAK. HE'S A GENIUS. HE SCORES WHEN HE WANTS"
Err. He scored a pen, mate
I don't really understand the outrage. Why shouldn't they celebrate winning a point against more fancied opponents when at half time they were behind and playing shit?Bloody hell the BBC this morning is impossible anyone would think Wales had won the World Cup. They scraped a draw against the US of A.
The big difference is that the keeper was near the half way line, and there were no defenders in front of Bale. That makes that situation considerably less rare than rocking horse shit. I think it was clearly a goal scoring opportunity, which is something different from a nailed-on goal.Using that logic so is almost every free touch of the ball.
Blocking a keeper from kicking it out of his hands? Red card all day long ref. After all, the other keeper was out of his box and it might have bounced over him.
There's a reason that halfway line goals make headlines for weeks - because they're as rare as rocking horse shit. Sidwell's is the only one I know we've scored since 1901 and after he scored it.