by jayramfootball » Sat May 14, 2022 8:32 am
DiamondGooner wrote:jayramfootball wrote:11 minutes in at 0-0
Like I said , we should have been playing against 10 men with 79 minutes left at 0-0.
Ref (and VAR who was Mike Dean by the way) 100% dictated the result.
There are no rational explanations as to why Son was not sent off.
There is no way an Arsenal player would have got away with that.
As usual we have 'Arsenal; fans' here delighted that we lost and loving bias refs against us.
Not at all.
We just focus on the fact that they scored 3 and we managed none, no referee decisions are going to help us attack properly, Saka was poor and the difference in level between him and a WC player in Son was on full display, a level difference I've had to spoon feed and educate you on the difference of what a "good" player and WC looks like as you seem to not know, I hope you learned something.
In the end of the day the penalty was soft, but again, that doesn't mean it won't be given, it means its a 50/50 chance it'll be given and Son did a good job of selling it and Cedric looked cynical.
Holding however has no defence whatsoever, he lost his head trying to mark a WC player, its that simple, there was no need whatsoever for rough housing Son half way up the bloody pitch its ridiculous.
Arteta should of seen Holding was in trouble after the yellow card and hauled him off, problem solved.
Not sure why you felt the need to deflect on behalf of Son and the ref.
Before Holdings red , Son should have been sent off for an elbow.
It’s that simple.
What Holding did later was irrelevant to that decision. Son should not even have been on the field for Holding to foul later.
We should have been playing vs 10 men from 11 minutes on - at 0-0.
In other words the ref dictated the winner of the game
The fact the ref gave one of the softest penalties you will ever see as well a few minutes later was no surprise at all. Once he has cheated so blatantly to allow Son to stay in the pitch, we had no chance.