Most people turned to congratulate Chelsea for the fascinating game, but indeed Manchester City has a few advantages over key decisions. The most apparent controversies were the soft penalty awarded again, and no foul for the handball. Sadly if the standard of refereeing is normal, Chelsea should deserve a win.
It’s hard to not see corruption of the refs regarding man city. The season they didn’t give a clear penalty in the box to Everton, obvious not offside goal disallowed to Luis Diaz, and countless other calls are in favor of Man City. These weren’t wrong decisions that were somehow missed, we had video of them as clear as day and the calls were the opposite of what would be expected by any normal human being with working eyes. I guess when you can pay 100M for bench players, paying off a couple refs is no problem as well.
You can’t just blame city every time a team with an outside chance of winning the league has a call go against them. It’s tinfoil hat territory….
. I guess when you can pay 100M
name them
Not a word about how Cucarella avoids a second yellow for clear simulation or how Dias gets the ball first for the penalty
The bias on Reddit forums is insane
The city pen was a fucking joke.
Shall we talk about the decision against city this season or shall we ignore them because it doesn’t suit your opinion or agenda. Soft pens maybe but pens yes by the letter of the law they are pens, shall we talk about the 5/6 sending off players should of seen against city?
But you know what, I love mostly that Chelsea didn’t whine about it. Coach didn’t whine, players didn’t whine. That’s a focused team.
The 21st century is the age of paranoia, conspiracy theories and the weak minded feeling like completely hopeless victims. State of this world.
The Cucarella penalty was a testament to how officiating has been for City all season.
I think Chelsea played quite well but a lot of what they created was off city mistakes , Sterling goal off a terrible composure from gvardiol
And the Jackson goal was awful goalkeeping from ederson.
For me peps gotta take a lot of blame here , you need to shut up shop and control the game but city never did
For City to make mistakes Chelsea MUST play REALLY well… I just love this way of “seeing” the game. Same as Spurs just got “unlucky” to go down to 9 and not because they just simply couldn’t keep up after the first 15 minutes. Mate, we played so well yesterday that we forced City to start making mistakes and was much closer to winning the game that City was. That is all.
Jackson’s goal was a result of the power behind connors shot. He had no time to react, he could only block it and hope his defenders go to the rebound first.
Football is game of mistakes, city goals were eveb worse- bullshit pen, Silva mistake with akanji, penis goal by haaland and last goal was off silva
I share this same sentiment about those two goals. Silva’s was a corner kick, and Ruben had a mistimed tackle due to the rain, I suppose. It’s not like Chelsea carved City open. City also had the better chances. Sanchez had better saves
Yeh I think city created two great goals from open play
- akanji header
- haaland tap in
And the. Had the fortune deflection for Rodri’s goal
Is it that much of a reach to say that Chelsea just played really well and made City play the game they wanted them to? This rhetoric that City only lose because they don’t play their best is just lazy.
I feel like anytime I go in to check the scores in a City game, Haaland had scored a penalty. Are there any statistics behind this?
I’m sure Ruben dias shared your sentiment, and that’s probably why he basically gave chelsea 2 goals
If you genuinely think the penalty at the end wasn’t a penalty then please stop watching football and remove yourself from this sub
I think he slipped due to the rain. I don’t think it was a moronic tackle as it looks like
Doesn’t mean that Dias is justified in thinking the ref decision in him was poor. He clattered the guy in the penalty area without getting the ball. As stone wall as it gets and the original reply was wrong to imply that the ref was unfair to city
Short of sheikh mansour actually reffing a couple of matches in person, it’s tough to see how the refs could make it easier for city…
Gallagher was somehow not booked the entire game and Cucurella should have seen a second card for simulation.
The ref was right in front of Cucurella. If your agenda was true, he would have been sent off.
We’re city late on payments last year when they had that ridiculous goal given against them at old Trafford?
Or when foden had a gol ruled out at anfield for a foul by haaland in buildup ?
Now do rodris handball!
Didn’t you get the memo?
Giving credit to City doesn’t exist in football subs lol
City are an excellent team, possibly best in world. Pep is a generational talent as a manger.
Does it change the fact that they are facing over 100 counts of financial impropriety? Does it look extremely dodgy that referees manage matches on the side at the expense of city’s owners?
LOL.
Oh woe is you
Well here’s the thing , other fans cannot digest the fact that one team is dominating the league whilst their team can just sit and watch . United fans are unable to digest the fact that their own neighbours who were once dominated by them are now dominating them . The other teams are just whining bcs they can’t beat us .
Call us scamsters , frauds , oil money or whatever the fck ull want to , but we’re one team to beat in this league
The penalty wasn’t soft though, it was idiotic. Idiotic from cucurella, absolutely braindead foul after losing position.
Your bitterness is clouding your sense and judgement
But he is right. The ball was perfectly covered by Silva. And most probably Haaland would make a foul on his as he was not even close to that ball. Cucu just panicked and put his hands on him for no particular reason. But i do understand Cucu as well. It was a split second decision and it was the wrong one nevertheless.
Did you actually watch the same game as the rest of us or are you blind?
I dont see any issue with the refereeing in this match. It could be argued that the penalty was soft, but from the perspective of a Chelsea fan I genuinely think the VAR had a good process for that one.
The on field decision was penalty, because that was genuinely what it looked like from a referees perspective. Haaland got ahead of Cucurella so Cucurella pulled him down.
Looking at the replays, yes, they both had a hold of each other, but cucurella didn’t let go. From the angle that we had it looks like Cucurella panics after Haaland gets ahead of him and just doesn’t let go, and Haaland makes a meal out of the situation. In that position its either Cucurella gets flamed for losing his man (if Haaland gets to the ball and scores) or he manages to at least slow him down enough to allow Silva an easy clearance without Haaland trying to jump ahead.
It wasn’t a good process because they didn’t judge the whole thing. The replays they seemed to use only showed the end of the incident, when cucarella undoubtedly pulled Haaland down. They did not show the start - They both had hold of each other. Haaland then clearly pulls cucarella back so that he can get in front of him. Cucarella doesn’t let go and bundles him over. It’s six of one, Haaland foul of the other.
Cucurella had hold of his shirt for ages, it was a clear pen lol
Where as Haaland only had hold of Cucurella’s short for a short period?
Yeah. Cucurella has hold of him first, Haaland grabs him second, let’s go, Cucurella still has hold of his shirt the whole time it’s a pen
Why the hell did VAR not show Haaland fouling Cucurella first? It’s so baffling what var choose to show and not show something that literally preceeded the penalty appeal
Haaland did not foul Cucurella first though?
Cucurella grabbed Haalands arm and Haaland grabs his arm then let go a second later whilst Cucurella panicked because Haaland made a move and got infront of him so he pulled him down.