Comisserations on your loss last night. Thought you guys showed some real fight and were the better team overall. Hopefully it stands you in good stead for taking 4th place.
What I wanted to discuss is not Kepa or Sarri but the linesman in yesterday’s game. They’ve been instructed to keep their flags down for any offsides (unless blatant) to allow VAR to make the correct decision. There was a ball played from Luiz (I think) to Hazard to run onto leaving him 1v1 with Ederson. You’d have thought Eden would have tucked it away and you’d have been 1-0 up and no doubt seen the game through.
That one tiny decision which should have been left to VAr would have seen Chelsea no doubt winning the cup, the Kepa incident no happen and save Sarri his job.
It’s a shame because you guys really took it to City and were left looking an embarrassment.
VAR VAR VAR
posted on 25/2/19
comment by Tablighi Jamaat (U15973)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 16 minutes ago
Again, was at the game, did hazard get motm in the end? I know they don’t usually give It to a player on the losing side.
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Can't remember anyone getting MOTM yesterday. Would have given it to Kante, he was immense yesterday.
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Bernardo Silva
Although, all things being equal I thought Hazard was the outstanding player on the pitch. Heads and tails above everyone else on the day.
posted on 25/2/19
comment by FishMCFC (U16301)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Tablighi Jamaat (U15973)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 16 minutes ago
Again, was at the game, did hazard get motm in the end? I know they don’t usually give It to a player on the losing side.
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Can't remember anyone getting MOTM yesterday. Would have given it to Kante, he was immense yesterday.
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Bernardo Silva
Although, all things being equal I thought Hazard was the outstanding player on the pitch. Heads and tails above everyone else on the day.
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Quality player, Bernardo Silva. He was really good in the 1st half but then didn't see much from him after that. Thought Emerson handled him well considering how difficult it is to get the ball off him and how badly Alonso played vs him in the 6-0.
posted on 25/2/19
Silva is a great player. They really are stacked with talent in that department
posted on 25/2/19
City also had a dubious goal not seen by VAR op
posted on 25/2/19
comment by Prankster (U6283)
posted 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
That was bizarre as it went against the VAR protocol set out for the refs.
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Exactly, it was no way clear enough for the lino to automatically flag that. Even if it was very close, in real time I actually thought he was well onside. It may have been a kind of instinctive response due to years of officiating without VAR, very much a beginner's mistake, but a very bad one nonetheless.
I'd expect the referee committee to pull him up on that privately.
posted on 25/2/19
comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 14 minutes ago
City also had a dubious goal not seen by VAR op
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Aguero?
Looked clearly offside from my vantage point.
posted on 25/2/19
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Prankster (U6283)
posted 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
That was bizarre as it went against the VAR protocol set out for the refs.
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Exactly, it was no way clear enough for the lino to automatically flag that. Even if it was very close, in real time I actually thought he was well onside. It may have been a kind of instinctive response due to years of officiating without VAR, very much a beginner's mistake, but a very bad one nonetheless.
I'd expect the referee committee to pull him up on that privately.
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Hazard?
I was literally right in line with that and it looked onside to me and everyone around me
Apparently he was just offside but it must have been tight.
posted on 25/2/19
I think officials haven't quite got used to working with VAR yet. I also thought linesmen were instructed to keep their flags down in situations like that - and then VAR could clear up the situation afterwards. After working with VAR for a while I bet assistant refs will get used to keeping their flag down and using VAR to verify later. It just didn't go Chelsea's way yesterday.
posted on 25/2/19
Fish, both instances in real time on the telly looked to me exactly as you described them, yet replays showed them both to be very, very tight calls.
More evidence, if any were needed, of just how tricky a lino's job is. I really can't understand why people are against providing them with technological aids to help them make the right decisions.
posted on 28/2/19
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 2 days, 14 hours ago
Fish, both instances in real time on the telly looked to me exactly as you described them, yet replays showed them both to be very, very tight calls.
More evidence, if any were needed, of just how tricky a lino's job is. I really can't understand why people are against providing them with technological aids to help them make the right decisions.
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I have seen the Aguero one on telly and was genuinely surprised at how close it was
He looked about 2 yards off from where I was, in the stands but it was more like a foot / foot and a half
I'm all for the technology. Should clear plenty up and if some decisions are tight or the evidence isn't clear cut, go with the on-field decision.