by Snowflake Royal »
19 Sep 2020 22:17
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Same could be used to counter the ‘we’d never have won if they hadn’t had 2 sent off’. They did, and one of the cards seems to have been the direct result of a tactical ploy by the manager !
Absolutely, which is why I don't think you'll find me saying we wouldn't have won without the reds, but that we were somewhat lucky to get the reds and took advantage of them.
And why no one suggested you did...
Not sure why luck was involved. First one Joao was tripped by the last defender with a clear run on goal, second one was handball when ona yellow....
Last defender is an irrelevance.
For me, Joao was never beating the keeper to the ball, which makes it not a clear goalscoring opportunity, which makes it not a red.
I think what tipped the ref into the red is that there had already been one challenge taking down a player (Olise) trying to break through on goal (but who had absolutely no chance of getting to the ball first), so given this was closer and he'd already got a hard time from us on the first one he took the slightly easier option.
Also think it's hard to say the second was an arm in an unnatural position, but the game was already done by that point.