if 7 is a reasonable number, it’s necessarily the minimum number required because of ball in play time. Which I guess doesn’t matter to you because reasons.
Which I’m sure was exclusively Arsenal and not Rodri faking an injury in the first minute, then actually getting injured, city getting carded for dissent, etc.
And that was the 2nd time in the game Haaland did it.
Stoppage time is not meant to make up for every second the ball is not live in play or else there would be 26 minutes of stoppage time added to the average half. Stoppage time to meant to make up for time above and beyond the ordinary for various situations.
I have a LOT of things in mind regarding Man City and their actions but I also feel Arsenal have some indiscipline to correct in their game.
Sure, but it’s disingenuous to complain about time wasting when the ball was in play more than average.
I have no problems with him getting a yellow for that body check. If it was for kicking the ball literally half a second after the whistle it's another stupid decision by Oliver.
Sure! It’s the same indiscipline every team has but only Arsenal gets punished and criticized for it. And we can see this. Haaland throws the ball at someone’s head and then tries chatting shit to a manager? Nothing from you. Trossard kicks the ball away when he didn’t hear a whistle? Indiscipline. Szobo does the same and it’s unpunished. Same with Joao Pedro. Also Doku. Havertz runs into Rodri who then fakes an Injury? Indiscipline. Haaland does the same? Silence. Dias runs 60 yards on a yellow to surround the ref? Nothing.
Yes and Haaland should have got a card too? I am not even questioning that. He is also a case of a guy that get away with a lot.
You also claim Partey is the one to rupture Rodri's ACL and have a "shut up and play" mentality with Vini Jr if he experiences racist remarks.
The problem with getting a yellow for the body check is that Haaland did that multiple times without a card. It’s about consistency and there’s a laughable lack of it.
This should have been the last action of the half. Or more accurately, the half should have been over well before that. The point is that in one case it’s indiscipline but when other teams do the same thing it’s frustration or whatever. It’s not like City was about to take a free kick with a ball that was midair.
Not when Arsenal literally wasted the most time of any game this season on goal kicks and the second highest average per stoppage (not counting injuries) of any game this season.
I’m not saying you are. I’m saying it’s disingenuous of the city players. They had more time with the ball in play than they would have during an “average” match.
Oh yea, the City players are being idiots. Whining about a team bunkering is dumb. If you go down a man at half, with a lead, against the 3 time running league champions, you're gonna bunker and shithouse. *Not* doing that would be stupid.
Nothing from me? What I am an authority or what? Should I start calling out all missed calls from all games (and it happen often). I have always felt that the officials in the EPL are the worst in the top 5 leagues. They are so bad and inconsistent same with the FA who never address their incompetence and only issue apologies letter.
Yeah, and it’s frustrating being on the shit end of those inconsistencies so often this early in the season. It happened to Liverpool once and a fan here went full truther and started stalking the refs
Fair enough, I think we were talking past each other, then.
Mate, you're wrong in this case. Look at the replay, Trossard is looking at where Saka's position was on the pitch because he was going to pass him the ball. Trossard gains no advantage whatsoever with delaying the restart at that location, all the Arsenal players were already in position.
