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comment by Busby (U19985)

posted on 3/9/23

The offside was certainly not clear, the angle made it impossible to tell to be honest. I’ve looked at it a few times and can only come to the conclusion his shoulder is offside?

comment by Busby (U19985)

posted on 3/9/23

comment by merrysupersteve (relaxed about the situation) (U1132)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 1 minute ago
I never watch United, unless I absolutely have to, however, apparently the Havertz penalty today was very similar to one Rashford was given last week?
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I'm not sure about that. Rashford was clipped by the Forest defender, whereas Havertz clearly deliberately initiates the slight contact today before throwing himself down. Having said that, AWB shouldn't have left his leg out and I am surprised it was overturned
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He didn’t leave his leg out, he pulled it away and that’s why it was overturned I reckon.

posted on 3/9/23

comment by 50 No longer trusting the process (U1147)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Arctic Monkey (U14534)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by 50 No longer trusting the process (U1147)
posted 49 seconds ago
The offside decision was correct but the offside rule is BS. In that situation you can’t rule a goal out but that’s the law. The penalty one I’ll never understand why it got turned over. Havertz is ahead of his defender, how is he even able to tell where the defender’s leg is? AWB leg is clearly in the way. Awful decision. But it’s a good job Arsenal are a much better team than Man Utd. Any other PL opposition and I doubt we’d get the winner.
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You'll never understand how a dive was overturned? Ok mate lol. He was expecting contact so was ready to go down, the replay was pretty clear
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Ok so Havertz has eyes at the back of his head now? The fact it’s even a discussion shows it’s not even a clear and obvious decision which is what VAR is for.
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The ref thought AWB caught him when he put his leg in, the replay showed it was Havertz that made contact after that........ It was very minimal contact anyway, certainly not enough to bring him down

posted on 3/9/23

Offside decision was correct, can see that clearly from both angles.

Only Arsenal get that penalty overturned against them though.

When you push the ball forward and accelerate in to space it doesn't take much to knock you off balance so you fall over. Two defenders cutting across you from both sides, clothes-lining you with their legs and clipping yours will do it for sure.

That wouldn't be overturned against Man Utd in a million years.

posted on 3/9/23

Get up, brush yourselves off, study what really went wrong, work 5x harder in midweek, come back stronger. That's what great clubs do.

When you have an excuse every time something goes wrong, you end up breeding a losing mentality. United need to steer well clear of that path.

comment by Busby (U19985)

posted on 3/9/23

comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 9 seconds ago
Offside decision was correct, can see that clearly from both angles.

Only Arsenal get that penalty overturned against them though.

When you push the ball forward and accelerate in to space it doesn't take much to knock you off balance so you fall over. Two defenders cutting across you from both sides, clothes-lining you with their legs and clipping yours will do it for sure.

That wouldn't be overturned against Man Utd in a million years.
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Which part of him is “clearly offside”

https://twitter.com/nathanaelgeb/status/1698392154723205505/photo/1

posted on 3/9/23

comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 9 seconds ago
Offside decision was correct, can see that clearly from both angles.

Only Arsenal get that penalty overturned against them though.

When you push the ball forward and accelerate in to space it doesn't take much to knock you off balance so you fall over. Two defenders cutting across you from both sides, clothes-lining you with their legs and clipping yours will do it for sure.

That wouldn't be overturned against Man Utd in a million years.
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Which part of him is “clearly offside”

https://twitter.com/nathanaelgeb/status/1698392154723205505/photo/1
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All the parts I saw live and in the post match decision review analysis.

comment by Busby (U19985)

posted on 3/9/23

comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 9 seconds ago
Offside decision was correct, can see that clearly from both angles.

Only Arsenal get that penalty overturned against them though.

When you push the ball forward and accelerate in to space it doesn't take much to knock you off balance so you fall over. Two defenders cutting across you from both sides, clothes-lining you with their legs and clipping yours will do it for sure.

That wouldn't be overturned against Man Utd in a million years.
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Which part of him is “clearly offside”

https://twitter.com/nathanaelgeb/status/1698392154723205505/photo/1
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All the parts I saw live and in the post match decision review analysis.
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Then look at the angle that is in line with play, and tell me that anybody can definitively say that’s offside.

The angle VAR had does look more offside than the actual line.

posted on 3/9/23

comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 9 seconds ago
Offside decision was correct, can see that clearly from both angles.

Only Arsenal get that penalty overturned against them though.

When you push the ball forward and accelerate in to space it doesn't take much to knock you off balance so you fall over. Two defenders cutting across you from both sides, clothes-lining you with their legs and clipping yours will do it for sure.

That wouldn't be overturned against Man Utd in a million years.
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Which part of him is “clearly offside”

https://twitter.com/nathanaelgeb/status/1698392154723205505/photo/1
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All the parts I saw live and in the post match decision review analysis.
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Then look at the angle that is in line with play, and tell me that anybody can definitively say that’s offside.

The angle VAR had does look more offside than the actual line.
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It's certainly less offside than the one when Rashford scored against Liverpool last season when they came out after the game saying they had made the lines bigger and if they touch, offside won't be given due to the bigger margin they implemented. I've never seen one the same since it.

posted on 3/9/23

I don't believe that screenshot is correctly in line with Gabriel and Garnacho. Looks slightly out of place

posted on 3/9/23

comment by There'sOne7-0Reds (U1721)
posted 8 seconds ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 9 seconds ago
Offside decision was correct, can see that clearly from both angles.

Only Arsenal get that penalty overturned against them though.

When you push the ball forward and accelerate in to space it doesn't take much to knock you off balance so you fall over. Two defenders cutting across you from both sides, clothes-lining you with their legs and clipping yours will do it for sure.

That wouldn't be overturned against Man Utd in a million years.
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Which part of him is “clearly offside”

https://twitter.com/nathanaelgeb/status/1698392154723205505/photo/1
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All the parts I saw live and in the post match decision review analysis.
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Then look at the angle that is in line with play, and tell me that anybody can definitively say that’s offside.

The angle VAR had does look more offside than the actual line.
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It's certainly less offside than the one when Rashford scored against Liverpool last season when they came out after the game saying they had made the lines bigger and if they touch, offside won't be given due to the bigger margin they implemented. I've never seen one the same since it.
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Well at least they remembered to draw the lines on, we lost two points to Brentford because of that in a title race...

posted on 3/9/23

Tbh it's very tight but in these situations, we don't have access to all angles and I think you just have to assume those with that access have come to the correct decision. Clearly it's very close but no point crying over what is presumably a correct decision, it won't impact the result anyway

posted on 3/9/23

comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 2 seconds ago
I don't believe that screenshot is correctly in line with Gabriel and Garnacho. Looks slightly out of place
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I think this is a straighter angle than the VAR one, maybe a phone in the stadium?

posted on 3/9/23

comment by Arctic Monkey (U14534)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 2 seconds ago
I don't believe that screenshot is correctly in line with Gabriel and Garnacho. Looks slightly out of place
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I think this is a straighter angle than the VAR one, maybe a phone in the stadium?
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I don't think it is. Look at the angle of the half way line.

posted on 3/9/23

Agreed it's very tight but all I can say is, on a very large 4K TV I said offside when I saw it live immediately and all the images I saw on Sky in the VAR/analysis after looked reasonably clear to me too.

posted on 3/9/23

From what I saw live I was surprised how tight it ended up looking on review

posted on 3/9/23

comment by There'sOne7-0Reds (U1721)
posted 39 seconds ago
comment by Arctic Monkey (U14534)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by You Can't Buy Class ¯\_/^v^\_/¯ (U12019)
posted 2 seconds ago
I don't believe that screenshot is correctly in line with Gabriel and Garnacho. Looks slightly out of place
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I think this is a straighter angle than the VAR one, maybe a phone in the stadium?
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I don't think it is. Look at the angle of the half way line.
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What I meant was more inline (taken passed the halfway line). The VAR camera angle is on the halfway line, so that looks straight, this looks further up the pitch.

posted on 3/9/23

On the first replay it was clear he is offside. Watching live I didn’t think he was offside at all.

posted on 3/9/23

comment by Vladimikel Artutin - committing war crimes aga... (U18355)
posted 8 minutes ago
On the first replay it was clear he is offside. Watching live I didn’t think he was offside at all.
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I thought it was the other way round.

Called it as offside on the live thread immediately, wasn't too sure until I saw the last angle on the replays.

posted on 3/9/23

Yeah, I am with Stinky Boris. Live I was confident it was off, as soon as they showed the replay I thought we were facked.

comment by Busby (U19985)

posted on 3/9/23

It was very close and I think VAR shouldn’t get involved in this situation. That ain’t even a bias view, I’ve said the same with use of VAR since it began.

We’ve had our own luck with VAR against Wolves so I don’t want to sing and dance about it; the officials are crap, whoever you support:

posted on 3/9/23

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 minutes ago
Yeah, I am with Stinky Boris. Live I was confident it was off, as soon as they showed the replay I thought we were facked.
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wtf?

posted on 3/9/23

I mean Inky Boris. Autocorrect.

posted on 3/9/23

Yeah, right.

posted on 3/9/23

If Shady things ahooen in that VAR room I'm sure it's not CGI moving players so that they're offside

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