[Albion] You're Lewis Dunk...

[zeetha]

Was probably instinctive to reach out and grab but I think its better to let the player go and trust your goalie. Especially with so long in the match to go

 

[vagabond]

Yes and no. 7 red cards in 4 seasons in the PL isn’t a great record, especially for our captain

He needs to assault fans in the stands like Dier or be arrested and imprisoned like Harry to live up to Southgate’s England’s disciplinary standards.

 

[Springal]

He needs to assault fans in the stands like Dier or be arrested and imprisoned like Harry to live up to Southgate’s high class England’s disciplinary standards.

Hmmm not sure Dunk has always had exemplary disciplinary standards off the pitch like Dier or Maguire but let’s not get into that…


Either way even before today or even this season Dunk was never going to be first or second choice CB for Southgate so who cares if he goes as a benchwarmer [emoji2375]

 

[Robinjakarta]

Let him go. Unforgivable foul costing us 3 points

With everything he's done for us, of course it's forgivable. Stupid, though.

We'll never know, but I fear you're right about the three points.

 

[warmleyseagull]

That early in the game you have to let him go, especially as it's by no means certain he would score. You leave your team a man short and you're banned for two games. .

I think it is one match ban. Correction 2 as second offence

 

[Springal]

I think it is one match ban

It 2 - as it’s his second red of the season

 

[warmleyseagull]

Fall over and "ACCIDENTLY" push the player.

Or dance a jig on the spot and hope to distract him?

 

[GT49er]

Pull him back all day long.

I'm not going along with the 84% majority, many of whom are voting with hindsight.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Ha, had Brighton won 0-1 everyone saying let him through would now be saying 'dunk was right to do it'.

No, they wouldn't. I'm one of those saying he was wrong and would have said the same and lucky for him if we'd still won.

 

[Robinjakarta]

This. There was every chance Sanchez could have saved a goal or Silva missed.

Yes. Or Dunk recovering and outmaneuvering him.

 

[1066familyman]

I don't think logical thinking plays any part here, you make your decision and live with it - Dunk has more in the bank than any other player out there...

Can you imagine the dogs abuse almost any other of our players would have got on here had he made the decision Dunk did today.

I agree with you completely. In terms of fans' reaction, Dunk is well in credit to not be hung drawn and quartered.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

...do you pull him back or let him go?


(Not criticising Dunk, nor suggesting he made the wrong call)

Let him go, it’s not a guaranteed goal

Wolves starting to play well and they will open us up further when Traore comes on, it’s better to have 11 on the field


If it was in the last 5 minutes then that justifies a different approach



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[Jimmy Come Lately]

I would have let him go. If you can't win the ball fairly you don't deserve to win it: it's kind of the point of sport to determine that. But that sort of honesty would no doubt have seen us relegated and is one reason why nobody would let me near a Premier League squad (along with being 45 years old and absolutely woeful at football, among others).

Still, I was a bit disappointed to see it. I thought Lewis had grown out of instinctively lunging at a player who had got away from him.

 

[Blackadder]

If it had been the 92nd minute, I would have accepted it, taking one for the team,

I wonder how many millions that will cost the club when it comes to final table positions to the club?

But it's football as others have mentioned. This is all in hindsight,

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Spilt second instinctive thing. No one on here can say they wouldn’t have done exactly the same in the heat of that moment.

 

[beorhthelm]

Spilt second instinctive thing. No one on here can say they wouldn’t have done exactly the same in the heat of that moment..

but why is it an "instinct" to grab a players shirt? where is this picked up as a legitimate part of the game?

 

[NooBHA]

Can I not choose both ?

I think he did the right thing to pull him back and advert the goal . But once he went off I would have had everyone behind the ball for the rest of the match. And brought more defenders on .

If you want to still try and attack and they did which was very brave. So if still gonna try and attack then the answer is let him go and take your chances he might miss.

So I can't criticise Lewis for what he did. There isn't a 100% right answer.

 

[perseus]

Fall over and "ACCIDENTLY" push the player.

Just like the Wolves player did to BURN in the penalty area in the first half

 

[METALMICKY]

Trust your keeper and we still have way more of a chance to get a result with 11 men. Fortunately for Dunk he has credit in the bank and up to that point had been brilliant.

I'm probably more concerned about Maupay's decision making

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Utterly unfair to judge this one from the comfort of our sofas. Lewis Dunk is the genuine Albion All Or Nothing. Lewis Dunk