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  1. Guess we're not the only team to do pathetic late collapses against this bunch. Rashford is one lucky, lucky footballer, given how many chances he wastes. Liverpool got a couple of reserves who just ain't really up to it (Endo, Tsimikas) and made some stupid errors in the closing stages.
  2. Yeah good cameo, nice finish (and crucially the movement to get in that position) and all-round play was good. His big achilles heel is discipline - could easily have got 2nd yellow in injury time for throwing ball away. First yellow was a bit handbags but once you got one, you have to be smarter and this is prob part of why he doesn't get many starts.
  3. Karma on the handballs for Ham with the pen not given. Hate VARs taking that long, but obv glad for the reprieve. As soon as they showed the correct angle shot, it was obvious so I don't know how it took so long to get there. Good fighting performance 2nd half, subs all did well, and a good point in the end.
  4. VAR will never overturn ones like that because the ref clearly saw it and made the call and there's enough wiggle-room with handball rule that they can just defer to on-pitch decision. If ref hadn't seen it, might have been a different story. for me, it is handball by the current wording of the rule because his arm is out in a way it doesn't need to be. "touches the ball with their hand/arm when it has made their body unnaturally bigger. A player is considered to have made their body unnaturally bigger when the position of their hand/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player’s body movement for that specific situation. By having their hand/arm in such a position, the player takes a risk of their hand/arm being hit by the ball and being penalised"
  5. You can tell there's not the same understanding with Duran/Rogers, players don't know where to make the passes, so they slow down and cycle again. Which is making it easy for West Ham to defend. Just couple moments with Watkins/Bailey trying to make something happen. It kind of is what is with the injuries, when you don't have McGinn/Kamara/Ramsey, we're missing a big chunk of our midfield so that's to be expected. The big disappointment was once more slack defending for a soft and easy goal similar to ones conceded against Fulham & Spurs. At 0-0 we might have grown into game, now we're chasing it and don't look like got the belief going forward to do anything.
  6. Perfect night other than injuries. Diaby or Bailey for MOTM
  7. Def no point appealing, they won't overturn one like that. Still I do think most times a foul like that would be given yellow, because it's not 2 footed, it's not high, it's essentially a trip but because he went in fast and because of the intense reaction from bench it tilted ref to give red. I'm thinking back to Tarkowski against us and I don't see a lot of difference, but he didn't even get a foul called against him, if I remember correctly.
  8. Game with basically zero positives, dire 2nd half obviously. Think the difference of having week off and full strength team vs European away game and no DM & half-fit CBs showed in the tired and mistake-ridden 2nd half. I do feel like the red would be given yellow 9/10 times but VAR never going to overturn - equally wouldn't have turned it red if the ref had said yellow. Van De Ven took Watkins leg in v similar way in the box early on and nothing given because of slightest brush on the ball.
  9. Annoyingly one is against Utd. We suffer him fouling all game, they get the reward of his ban.
  10. Big performance, all about getting the points today. Other results seem to have fallen nicely too. Martinez that save at the end, as valuable as a goal. Him and McGinn were the standouts, and Watkins for the goals
  11. Getting better in general play. But actually at fault for their winner in getting drawn to double up on Mainoo which left Dalot with space and time to pick his spot with the cross
  12. Need at minimum 7 from next 3 now to get back on track ahead of Spurs game
  13. Overall performance was decent but just utter failure in the crucial moments. We had to take this match when we equalised. Pissed away chances and let them score with first attack in ages. Emery has to take some blame because his changes did not work and it was collective failure not to win from 1-1 when they were completely there for taking. In a grinding battle for 5th now and we'll be the team falling away. Feels like there will be no happiness any more this season.
  14. Responded better to going behind than vs Newcastle and Chelsea, so there's some hope here. Feels like not getting the luck of the bounce when it's in the box.. McGinn seems more on it this week. Need to get Bailey into it more. Obviously danger we'll just get picked off on the break now, but we have to try get a something from this match. How little ratface isn't on a yellow is a recurring mystery. Vile excuse for a footballer.
  15. Pretty much carbon copy of Newcastle. We absolutely have to respond against Man Utd. Furious to be out of the cup so softly. Nothing good in any department of the pitch and they all seemed to feed off each other's apathy and errors. Diaby Motm for a goal that makes the scoreline slightly more respectable. Ref definitely needs a new watch. If we'd somehow snuck a 2nd from that corner to go 2-3 ~91 mins, we should have had at least 10 more mins to get a miracle. how can give 4 mins when there was 5 mins+ of subs in just the last 10 mins let alone all the other stops including him booking their GK for timewasting. like, did he have a lobotomy and miss all that?
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