Brighton vs Arsenal | January 4, 17:30 GMT: Page 10 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Brighton vs Arsenal | January 4, 17:30 GMT

GooneriC

That's never a penalty in a million years , why didn't Var overrule it? Saliba makes contact with the ball before the heads clash. Just seen The post match , didn't notice that before , but Saliba makes contact with the ball first

Panda

GooneriC I'm afraid VARs job is to check the ref can justify his decision rather than to correct his mistake.

Just automate the offsides and get rid of them too.

naz

DiabyKungFu Arteta goes into defensive mode in every away CL knock out match that I can remember. I don't see us beating the likes of Liverpool or Real or even Atletico in a two match knock out without Saka, Odegaard and White back firing on all cylinders.

awooga83

naz yeah we haven't been nearly consistent enough in that tournament either particularly we are weak away from home.

DiabyKungFu

naz Arteta goes into defensive mode in every away CL knock out match that I can remember.

To be clear, the sample size here is 2 and I also don't even agree with the framing.

flobaba

Panda at least have the ref go take a look right? At least. It’s a big moment in the game and in the title race. Everyone understands this. And that’s the best that the pgmol can do with this incident. Just look on and say nothing. Smh.

I mentally checked out I think when Odegaard got injured. It has made it easier to cope with this season. Very disappointed today though. If we are going to fade out then let us fade out, don’t just blatantly derail us.

awooga83

Panda I don't think that's the same scenario personally. I think we were hard done by for the ref to give it in the moment but maybe just good positioning very close directly on it was bad luck.

When I was equally annoyed in it's awarding I was thinking through a challenge like an attacking player knocking the ball ahead of the defender trying to play it but instead contacting the attacking player and that made me think it's probably one that 'could' be given. I don't think they are going to occur very often we were just unlucky it got awarded.

Panda

awooga83 It was a clash of heads in the box. How many times do you see a player head the ball and get hit by another player tryna head it and go down and get a penalty? Happens 5 times a game and penalties are never given.

I think your argument is that Pedro knocked the ball past Saliba with the head and then got taken down by Saliba with his head? But they were both just going for the ball and Saliba got a little nick on him and he went down like he'd been shot. Saliba didn't take him out like Kulu did Gordon and that contact was deemed accidental so why wasn't Saliba's???

naz

Brighton are winless in 8 matches. They weren't even at their best. Oh well. We move on

DiabyKungFu

awooga83 naz yeah we haven't been nearly consistent enough in that tournament either particularly we are weak away from home

I think there are only two teams in that competition that are even arguably better than us (Liverpool and Inter) and we've already played one of them away this season and I thought we generally played them off the park even without Odegaard. Unless we're decimated with injuries, there really isn't a single team in football that particularly scares me.

naz

DiabyKungFu mate, he'd have to break his stubborn insistence on playing a certain way then do it 3x more against increasingly difficult competition. I don't see him doing it and the team won't do it themselves. Would love to be proven wrong

QuincyAbeyie

DiabyKungFu if you really think Inter are second or first favorites the bookies are handing you a giant gift on that one with 16/1.

lorddulaarsenal

DiabyKungFu he has clown feet though

awooga83

Panda a player can be going for the ball and is late.. That's still often given as a penalty if someone caught them on the feet. I didn't really think it was the same type of challenge as the Newcastle one personally. It was harsh no doubt but I think it can be within the law around just being a late challenge.

MistaT

I can’t be bothered by the penalty when we struggle to create enough chances to score two goals. Fuck all created in the second half and we’ve been incredibly lucky this season with so many goals coming from set pieces…..which was never going to be sustainable

Qwiss

Turns out the Nwaneri sub was enforced and he's out for a while now too.

We are fucked.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Qwiss no fucking way!

daredevil

Turns out Saliba won the ball. I thought it was a pen but new footage shows he won the ball.

DiabyKungFu

QuincyAbeyie if you really think Inter are second or first favorites the bookies are handing you a giant gift on that one with 16/1.

Interesting. I was looking at http://clubelo.com/ and https://elofootball.com/ which have us, Liverpool and Inter as the top three teams in Europe. I might look into doing some sort of relative value betting on Inter relative to Bayern. Bayern > Inter specifically doesn't make a ton of sense to me. As it pertains to the main point I was making, bookmakers have us as having the second best odds to win the CL which goes to what I was saying.

lorddulaarsenal

We missed Havertz a lot today

Claudius

Tam tam?. Partey is playing because White, timber and Tomi aren’t available. Should we have bought another right back?

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