Enough to draw blood though. The old saying is: “You can’t raise your hands.” Stupid of Thiago.
Exactly. KLP penalty against Sunderland, Yarmoliuk red card against Liverpool, and Thiago today. All initiated by the opponents. Are we supposed to roll over? Yarmoliuk and Thiago weren't even looking at their man so can't be considered intentional contact to the face. Refs need to recognise some context and stop letting the actual aggressors get away with it, instead of harshly punishing reactive behaviours.
Yes. Brighton had fashioned very few decent chances for themselves after the red. We’ve held our defensive shape well and defended our box pretty well. To throw all the hard work away with that penalty is so frustrating.
Mad that our best footballer no longer plays any real minutes. A rare mis step / blind spot for the manager.
Exactly. This is the point. It was hammered by Liverpool after the Villa match. And since then we’ve had 3 red cards.
Thiago puts his forearm in the bloke’s face. If it’s the other way round we’d expect a red card all day long.
Spot on -- get the best players on the pitch. Damsgaard is acknoweldged as Denmark's stand-out player yet he can't start for us. Baffling, unless it's because his injury is still having an effect. The fluent football from early season has vanished and we need to get back to it asap.
Goodness me there is no anti Brentford conspiracy, they aren’t all meeting behind our backs to gossip about us. Just stupid footballers giving officials easy decisions.
That is a ridiculous comment. The media haven’t told our players to commit violent conduct.
It does if ref gives it. Had he not VAR would not intervene imho. Once ref gives it it was never getting over turned.
I'm not continuing with this.
Agree we have to learn all over the pitch - easy to say but far harder to do in the heat of the game. I maintain KLPs is a 40/60 decision but he simply has to stop and find another way because two refs now don't like it whatever we think.
Good question! Presumably it's come from the manager but who knows. Although I think being more physical isn't an issue as long we keep our discipline!!
Thiago-judged as violent conduct, got a red.
It’s just seems so soft, he didn’t strike him directly on the face, he pushed on the chest area with his forearm and it moved up. Drawing blood is not a marker of if it should be a red.
The ‘dark arts’ are an integral part of the game at this level and many teams are very good at it clearly coached or encouraged by coaching staff.
You need to get a life, seriously. He was stupid and he was sent off. Just let it go and watch some football
Annoying thing is it's the Brighton player who gets up and goes at Thiago aggressively so he pushes him away. I think he meant to get his chest/shoulder but his arms went up.
Maybe, just possibly, the players you blindly continue to defend to an insufferable and delusional level who have given the ref an easy decision to make yet again.
Yep this is my take too - clearly catches him in the face but no way he has intended to do that, was trying to get him out of his face. There was force so red card albeit unfortunate.
