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How the fuck wasn't that a goal

This football just looks like someone has spilt loads of ink on it.

Against anyone other than man Utd that's a free kick for Liverpool there.

Man Utd turned up for a game of basketball again.

Lineker was suggesting something similar on MOTD yesterday. I'm not sure how a challenge system would work in practice though in terms of relaying that you wish to challenge in the right timeframes. The other issue is the subjective mess (that's an autocorrect for subjectiveness but I think it works) of the calls. Say a team rightly thinks they should have a penalty but VAR is like nah, you have a case but stick with on field decision. You've now lost your challenge and don't get to go for the stone wallers. Just bin the whole thing. I don't see how they can keep going like this. I'm still not sure what problem it was designed to solve.

The fundamental issue with VAR and ruling goals out is that it approaches the issue with the mindset of "I need to find a reason to disallow this goal". See us and Wolves today. Instead they should be looking for reasons why the goal should be allowed to stand and give the benefit of the doubt to the attacking team and should only interject when there has been an obvious error. For a good example of this approach see our goal Vs Arsenal earlier in the season.

Their player jumps back into Burn. If anything he's the one that was fouled. Burn just pushes him away so he doesn't go over himself.

Pahahahah

This is the best result for us isn't it? Keeps man Utd in check and Chelsea (who have a game over us) a bit further back.

lols

This is just basketball

Thought that should have been a clear yellow for Antony.

They really need to give Palmer his how not to be a twat training.

Nice to know we don't have the worst keeper in the league.

Fuck this guy. Get him out of the club asap.

We're now 4th in Expected Points on Understat: https://understat.com/league/EPL CL confirmed! Man Utd 14th. The one thing they've got going for them in finishing 6th is they've somehow already got points on the board. But this current incarnation are a solidly mid-table team. They're by no means a shoe in for 6th.

Almost like it's his position.

Never mind the game he's kept them in the league.

Our injury crisis suddenly makes perfect sense.

I view you lot away as being comparable to any other mid table away match. It's only when you get to Spurs and above that I'd be thinking happy with a point here. We should be going for all 3 against you.

Murphy is similar to Almiron in that he can put a shift in and produce some good stuff but overall is below the standard required to be at the top. Like Almiron it's hard not to like him so long as he isn't getting too many minutes at which point we'll start to be sick of the sight of him. For a current example see Sean Longstaff.

I mean jesus christ people are going on like west ham battered us and we were lucky to get anything from the game. We were clearly the better team and were good value for our win. There's obvious defensive issues but it's mainly showing how much worse our number 2 keeper is from our first choice. We could change our entire system around this but it won't magically mean we are better. And still... We got knocked out of the CL via corruption (whilst admittedly being battered but the players gave it their all). We got knocked out of LC via freak individual error. We got knocked out of FAC via drawing Man City away (and lord the way people went on about losing to the best team in the world). And despite all the injuries and everything else we've endured this season we are still very much in contention for top 6. Not where we really want to be but given we've gone basically all season with an entire 11 out injured I find it pretty fucking impressive. You'd think we were battling for relegation the way some people are going on.

I know why the forum doesn't have a dislike button but still I have to ask: why don't we have a dislike button?

The confusion was gold tbf. When they said Gordon's coming off my first thought was hang on we've used all our subs, then onto he better not fucking be injured, and then finally we worked out it was a red card. As some others have said despite being one of our best players I'm not overly upset with him having a rest.

Wood His goal yesterday was lovely in fairness.