Ange Postecoglou is getting a lot of love for his tactics v Chelsea but they were suicidal. Mails on that and lots on VAR here.
Let’s just quote the man with the magic hat, Chelsea legend Cesc Fabregas: “Football is F**ing unbelievable”
But a team lost their heads, lost players to avoidable red cards, and STILL defended with a ridiculously high line – despite having a possibly 3rd or 4th choice centre back partnership! AND… lost by 3 goals at home. Turns out, that was the manager’s call.Everyone knows how weak Chelsea are – in strength and mentality. He could have told his team to camp out, nine men, low block. Possibly could have nicked a point. Stayed undefeated. Given his squad untameable impetus.
…Well I’m sure this morning’s sack will bulge bigger than Santa’s . What a match for the neutral, I’ll not be one of those who shoves in a 15-paragraph mail to you. Besides the obvious VAR discussion for me it’s this deifying of Ange Postecoglou. Now he is a breath of fresh air, common sense and balanced view point. It’s not hard to like the man.
I do hope we don’t get any Spurs fans complaining today. I am sure they are frustrated that they just got spanked at home and had their first team potentially decimated, but thems the breaks, chaps. The game may have been a freak, but the result is inarguable and you did it to yourselves. If VAR is there to spot clear and obvious mistakes then we shouldn’t have to slow it down or freeze frame it. Once we get to that point we get these ridiculous situations where we are looking for the precise image that will support our view. The game is played in real time, it is refereed in real time and should be VAR’d in real time.As an Arsenal fan – it’s been a mixed weekend. Last night should have made me feel a little better but it didn’t.
All VAR has done is to drive the arguments about referee decisions to a microscopic level of analysis that is impacting matches negatively. As Ange said, if we just accept the decision and get on with the game, things might improve from the absolute shower that it is at the moment.
‘In its own intrusive and irritating way, VAR almost enhanced the experience of this one as we all pored over slow-motion replay after still image after slow-motion replay’ It says it all that at one point both fans joined together to sing “F*** VAR”. Some games it will benefit your team, others it won’t- but it can’t carry on like this forever.From a match where there was so much to be discussed, I want to mention one issue that was not discussed. The Van de Ven hamstring injury – it was a result of players going cold during the long VAR stoppages. It is something I always thought would happen, maybe it has already happened before.
And was it handball…it goes from his chest to his arm then off the defenders back, but his arms are in front of him, this is again a completely subjective decision. The ball bounced up and hit Saka’s hand very clearly in one open play sequence, wasn’t given a foul. This happens multiple times in a game, not all are fouls, so again you only have your disagreement to go with.
3) Ref comms need to be made available, live. That will force referees to speak properly, clearly and decisively. And hopefully that will translate on to their field decisions. The NBA does that and it is great. Even if the players may not agree with the on field decisions, if the refs explain them to the public, you bet the backlash won’t be so severe because more people will understand their logic of their decisions, if there was any.
7) I actually think Havertz is a decent player. Just not for 65m. He has great attributes on paper but rarely is that seen to be applied or utilised on the pitch, and something tells me that is not down to the coach but the player himself. He does not seem to have the confidence of desire to realise his potential. The anti Jesse Lingard if you will.
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