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goon

What the fuck did Gundogun do there? I swear he just froze with the goal gaping? 😆

What a game.

goon

Grealish is incredible, looks like he has no options with two players in close proximity and picks out the only guy in the box in space.

Unreal goalmouth action.

Clrnc

That is a good goal. Bernardo Silva with a stunner

lorddulaarsenal

Get in

GooneriC

Wasn't he offside?

goon

That's offside surely? Migns gets tackled by the guy who was around 10 yards offside, I don't think you can argue it's a different phase. I think Villa are right to be angry.

GooneriC

Dean Smith calling Moss a fat prick hahaha

goon

That's genuinely one of the worst decisions I've seen, officials have no clue.

Clrnc

THat was seriously unfair on Villa. How did the VAR not check that?

goon

Clrnc wrote:
THat was seriously unfair on Villa. How did the VAR not check that?

They did, they just don't know the rules.

GooneriC

The Var did check it and decided it was OK.Surely the ref should have had another look though, that's offside although we have seen past scenes with GK blunders where players run from behind them and nick the ball. Same thing?

Clrnc

Haha VAR just said its a different phase of play 😆

Literally 0.5s after Mings got dispossessed Bernardo took the ball and scored.

GooneriC

That's nonsense.

goon

Apparently it's because Mings played the ball, fair enough. It was shit defending.

Clrnc

goon wrote:
Apparently it's because Mings played the ball, fair enough. It was shit defending.

Can't be fair because if Rodri didn't tackle him Mings wouldn't need to tackle/pass that ball away. Can't say Rodri didn't affect play at all

EDIT: Dermot Gallagher says it's because of a new IFAB law this year. As long as Mings take control of the ball Rodri can tackle him as he is not deemed offside anymore. It's a new phase. That is the new law.

For Rodri to be offside, Mings must not touch the ball and leave it and let Rodri touch it first from an offside position.

Ok...

goon

I think the issue is that Mings takes it down and then turns into Rodri. If he just tried to chest it and then Rodri challenged from behind I reckon it's given as offside.

Refs should use a bit of common sense, it's clearly against the spirit of the law. But ultimately it's just shit defending from Mings.

Clrnc

Kinda annoying other club oldie signings like Cavani and Thiago Silva is successful from other leagues and then we tried the safest option with Willian and he's so bloody bad

GooneriC

Stupid from Fulham , standing off Pogba. Great strike though.

Klaus

I really don't like that Solskjaer has gotten Pogba to fire again. He's never really reached top form in England before, but if he does he's potentially the best player in the league. Hopefully this is just a small purple patch and he'll go back to being inconsistent soon.

goon

Pogba was on fire for a few weeks when Solskjaer first took over, much better than he's playing now.

He's been ok recently, few more telling contributions, but his general play is still all over the place. Loses the ball a ridiculous number of times.

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