GWT: EPL - Matchweek 11

[Wee Baby Seamus]

I get that one. If you're offsides and in the goalie's line of sight, you are impacting the play. The BuLi calls those too.

I agree with that being the rule and generally support those calls. But Jackson was about 15 yards in front of Vicario, that wasn't a screen and the bar for "impacting the play" gets lower and lower.

 

[hatterson]

Why not an indirect free kick?

Because, by rule, physical fouls are direct free kicks. Whether it was an attempt at the ball or karate kicking someone 50 feet from the ball doesn't change the fact that a physical foul results in a direct free kick (and a direct free kick foul within the penalty area is a pen)

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Jesus Christ what is this game

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Wonder how much extra time.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Disaster first half for Tottenham.

 

[Evilo]

Where's the Spurs supposed luck here?

 

[hatterson]

Losing Van De Ven for a long time would be a disaster for Spurs season.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

VAR sucks so much. I don't care about getting every call 100% right to the point where the entertainment product is this much worse. I miss the days when you could celebrate when your favorite team scored a goal, instead of having to wait 10 seconds minimum to make sure there's no VAR checks.

I'll continue to beat this drum. Keep VAR for when a ref calls an on-field pen, and for head injuries anytime a play is stopped because of one (obvious embellishments are punished).

Abolish it everywhere else.

 

[cgf]

I agree with that being the rule and generally support those calls. But Jackson was about 15 yards in front of Vicario, that wasn't a screen and the bar for "impacting the play" gets lower and lower.

That certainly isn't the most clearcut of interferences, but if the ball goes through an attacking player's legs while he's offsides, I expect the call. It's the attacker's responsibility to not be offsides and to not interfere with the play at all when they are.

 

[Evilo]

Losing Van De Ven for a long time would be a disaster for Spurs season.

4 weeks minimum

 

[hatterson]

Spurs now playing Emerson Royal and Eric Dier at CB....That's not great.

 

[HoseEmDown]

Because, by rule, physical fouls are direct free kicks. Whether it was an attempt at the ball or karate kicking someone 50 feet from the ball doesn't change the fact that a physical foul results in a direct free kick (and a direct free kick foul within the penalty area is a pen)

I get rules and all but it seems harsh to give both. You see refs give a goalie just a yellow and a pen on a foul in the box because they don't want to do double the punishment.

 

[luiginb]

Who does Spurs play next?

 

[HeHateMeFrisbee]

This has been a disaster. If we hold out for a draw it will be a victory.

 

[Evilo]

Who does Spurs play next?

A lucky team

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Our great start to the season is unfolding in one half lol.

 

[cgf]

VAR sucks so much. I don't care about getting every call 100% right to the point where the entertainment product is this much worse. I miss the days when you could celebrate when your favorite team scored a goal, instead of having to wait 10 seconds minimum to make sure there's no VAR checks.

I only mind VAR when it takes a long time and they still can't consistently get calls right. I'm glad we have it in the BuLi

Our great start to the season is unfolding in one half lol.

This game really has been like watching Union play Union...

 

[Jersey Fresh]

That didn’t look like a short hamstring for Van de Ven, that looked like 3-4 months. Guy couldn’t put any weight in his leg.

 

[luiginb]

As a small team fan VAR is the best thing that could have happened to football. My hometown team Farul Constanta were never higher than 4 in the league without VAR, first year with VAR we won the league.

 

[hatterson]

I get rules and all but it seems harsh to give both. You see refs give a goalie just a yellow and a pen on a foul in the box because they don't want to do double the punishment.

The double punishment bit is part of the DOGSO rule which wasn't applicable here since Romero wasn't denying an goal scoring opportunity with the specific conduct that earned him the red.

The referee *could* have said that Romero's challenge was only worth a yellow if he felt like it, but if he believes it was a foul, regardless of any color card the challenge earns (if any), it has to be a pen.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

1) I think Udogie was not a red but at the sametime why the f*** is he sliding with two feet in front? Any decent contact and it's a red with possibly extented suspension.

2) Romero is a red if you stay consistent with how they have been interpreted the red card since the beginning of the year.

3) The goal from Caicedo should have stood. These offside call from shot from afar are a bit too much and quite subjective on how it impacts the goal.

 

[cgf]

I get rules and all but it seems harsh to give both. You see refs give a goalie just a yellow and a pen on a foul in the box because they don't want to do double the punishment.

Even if you feel the pen is harsh, you can't not give Romero a red after those two incidents and he did it in the box, so the ref really couldn't do anything else.

 

[hatterson]

1) I think Udogie was not a red but at the sametime why the f*** is he sliding with two feet?

2) Romero is a red if you stay consistent with how they have been interpreted the red card since the beginning of the year.

3) The goal from Caicedo should have stood. These offside call from shot from afar are a bit too much and quite subjective on how it impacts the goal.

Part of me thinks Udogie should be a red simply because of how unnecessary it is to go with two feet and the fact that he had the audacity to be upset at being whistled for it.

 

[cgf]

1) I think Udogie was not a red but at the sametime why the f*** is he sliding with two feet?

I don't know the EPL's rules, but I think that should be a red every time. You shouldn't have to break someone's leg to get a red for a wildly reckless challenge.

 

[JPBolts]

Who does Spurs play next?

Next 5 are
Wolves
Villa
City
West Ham
Newcastle