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It's a team game not an individual game. If the designated penalty taker is on the pitch he takes the penalties. Anyone who actually matters when making a decision is able to differentiate between a striker who has 25 goals but 10 were penalties vs a striker with 15 goals with 0 of them penalties without going OMG 25 goals vs 15 he's much better.

Was it Tonali in the second half where the ball bounced up into his arm? Never a penalty but at the same time was surprised it wasn't given. So presumably there's a line somewhere but obviously position well different than we're used to.

Positives to take from the game no doubt but conceding a goal to Qarabag? Questions have to be asked.

Wouldn't be surprised if Trafford pushed for it City sold him for the same price they paid.

Would snap your hand off for those sort of figures. That said it's getting harder to replace to a decent standard without paying too dollar these days.

Whilst technically by the rules it might be correct it's still a fundamental shift in how the rule is actually applied and on the results of games. People mention "buffers" for VAR but in reality that buffer has always existed in real life. Humans in real time can't see this type of microscopic offside and so 90% of the time won't flag for it. I don't think a buffer works for VAR itself. If we have decided that re-refereeing games with video replays is the way we want to go then I don't see any justification for not making the correct decision. "Oh, it's within 5cm so fuck it give it or don't who cares" isn't going to cut it. Ultimately in terms of offside VAR is an advantage to defenders and a disadvantage to attackers compared to how the game used to be. I assume most football fans would be against that.

Why wasn't Szoboszlai suspended? Didn't he get a straight red last game?

Never seen anything like this. It's not even Sunday league level.

Last year I would have understood the argument of Europa at least giving us some experience of European away nights and getting the club used to these trips, the reduced training time, etc. At this point however we have plenty of experience of that. If we're to miss out on CL/Europa next season I'd prefer we just got more time on the training pitch to maximise our chances of CL qualification. We've learned all we need to at this point.

We lost out on Ekitike twice to PSG and Liverpool. And for that amount of money abroad we might get lucky and get some decent players or we could easily end up with some duds.

Must be seen as really shit by other clubs to want to sack your manager afterwards.

Yeah fair enough but let's say 15 years ago then when i'm sure it was perfectly feasible. The point i'm making is "do we want to re-referree football games with video replays" is something that we could have been doing for a long time. That technology has existed for a long time and I don't accept the argument of "well the technology exists so it's inevitable that we carry on re-refereeing football games in this way".

The technology existed 30 years ago and we didn't bother with it then.

I don't think he was massively at fault for the goal but at the same time he didn't cover himself in glory either. That said I'm over him at this point at GK has to be a priority target this summer.

On replay I did think it was extraordinary that Thiaw was allowed to be in any position to score that goal as well taken as it was.

Not to forgive how static they were entirely but they're in a similar boat to us with an injury ravaged squad and a really congested fixture list. We've had a few more games than them but didn't they have only 3 proper first team players on the bench?

Just base it off the feet in all situations. Fed up of attackers and defenders being in line with each other but it's ruled offside because they're leaning different ways.

Jesus that rain looks awful. Can see this being awful.

I'd rather have Livramneto, Miley, or Krafth. Poor choice by Howe.

It's not though. Or it shouldn't be. Pretty much every sport will have an overriding "spirit of the game rule". And in this instance if there was no initial foul it would have clearly been a goal. Just give it.

Had to zoom the camera right out to get Haaland and Silva in the same shot there.

lols

That's put the cat amongst the chickens.

That was obscene.

Liverpool could be down to 10 if Marmoush had any balls.