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Yeah he was getting himself into dangerous positions which is when he's actually worth a squad place. When he's hanging out wide and dawdling on the ball I'm worried for him

With Murphy it's usually his poor/slow decision making on the ball when he's having a shitter, when his tail is up he's direct and causes problems, he's one of our better crosses of the ball and one of our better finishers. His finishing obviously let him down before the goal but it wasn't a surprise to see him open the scoring, he was looking sharp.

Overturned by VAR

Loves The Toon

Bruno should be off with 2 yellows like

He wasn't even playing bad before the goal

Murphy's actually a fairly good finisher usually. Playing well imo, he was horrific first few games but he's been decent since Edit: lol

Probably this:

He's not playing the way he wants to is the main reason. We want to be set up on the halfway line and keep the opposition penned in. We'll get there again but we need to refresh the squad.

Bruno has an absurd engine, probably helped by the fact he doesn't sprint loads. I think going forwards Tonali will only be dropped if his fitness levels are dropping, he should be able to start Monday then Saturday like.

Fair enough. They scored from a floated freekick that evaded about 3 of our players though. Schar was mistiming the flight of the ball all half. I don't think it was the personel more that we dealt with the winds picking up terribly.

Storms do effect football like

Why? The game went to shit probably due to the insane winds tbh.

Pretty clear it's not cut out for playing with the intensity we need week in week out though and the RW issue has left us massively lacking up top. It's partly Howe's fault, he has a good eye for a player for a manager but we should have brought someone like Mitchell in years ago.

We get around the PSR mess and buy new players? Whover cones in wouod still inherit the squad.

Brentford are spawny as fuck

Good job every pundit keeps twisting on about linesmen letting offsides go on in dangerous positions.

Was excellent by their keeper tbf, recovered really quick.

Massive deflection

Won 5 after us then lost their next 5. I think it took a little while for teams to properly come to terms with not fearing them without Rodri, but I think Pep will sort something out soon and things will revert back to normal with them methodically boring the shite out of everyone to death.

So annoying we're going to miss playing Man City during the only period they'll ever be a free hit.

I think this is part of the point of what Webb has done though, "clear and obvious" makes the rulebook vague without actually touching the rules and takes the pressure off refs. It's completely ruined the sport, but I do think we're seeing more and more excuses bleeding in from fans and pundits as to why stonewall penalties aren't given. The Fraser example in the image, as it was away from the ball, there was this sort of stuff"yeah the ref has missed a foul, but VAR shouldn't overturn it as he wouldn't have gotten to the ball anyway." Nothing in the rules says that, but fans will accept it and even start repeating it themselves. Same with VVD, it's an 'orange card', he could have walked, yet it's not even a penalty because you could make the argument VVD was expecting a collision himself, or something to sort of explain the decision.

Said it in the match thread but VAR has essentially just conned people into accepting poor decisions by adding an extra layer to them. People now discuss whether blatant fouls in the box are penalties or not, rather than if the referee and linesmen are shite/blind. Nobody with any seriousness can tell me Liverpool didn't foul us twice in the box. "It's just VAR's 'high bar', if it was really, really, really a penalty they would have given it." I swear there's more stonewall penalties waved away now than ever before as referees know they're no longer raked over the coals, they're happy to let VAR take the rap.

A few times I thought we'd won a call but it was just their fans like. Definitely louder than normal.

Explain to me why he should referee a top level game again? Cheers.