No it wasn't. The West Ham players arm was down, preparing to brace himself as he slid to ground. The Sheffield Utd players arm was up in the air away from his body. It's a small difference, but it has been a key difference for quite a while.
Surely if he is that close to the keeper, he must be interfering with play?
He wasn't in the keeper's eyeline, he wasn't challenging the keeper, it didn't look to me that the keeper took him into account at all (i.e. he didn't move to cover the offside player - if he had, he may have saved the shot), he didn't stop the keeper from getting to where he needed to stop the shot, the shot was just placed in outside the keeper's reach.
I thought that last week with two Wolves players in front of Steele when Wolves scored, it would 100% have distracted him.
Kicked his ankle and he was through on goal.
Through on goal, hacked him down, awful challenge denying a clear goalscoring opportunity imo……..right decision
Didn’t have control of the ball so how can it be a goal scoring opportunity? That’s a yellow card all day, never a red.
Clear red. Liverpool should be down to 9 as ref bottled sending off TAA for a clear second yellow.
Newcastle probably would have asked the ref to keep him on anyway ..error prone today
It's usually the games we fear the most we do the best at these days !!
just based on my observations… they’re not pressing too aggressively, they’re stronger in all the duels and they’re lightning quick on the counter. recipe for disaster as far as we’re concerned
