Today’s Football 2020/21 Season

[Bullens Rd]

Happens to Salah or Mane...nailed on pen

Unfortunately so, yes.

For people saying "but he got the man!" - is the defender supposed to make his leg disappear after winning the ball? Never a penalty, unless you're Liverpool, United or Leicester.

 

[Chegsy]

Exactly. That accidental flick of the ball is irrelevant

Would prefer to see trezeguet booked tbh. Was an embarrassing dive. Players trained to lash themselves to the floor if they feel anything.

 

[TheBigIguana]

FFS the entire build up to this match is going to be about freaking Mourinho and Pep. Not sure I'll be able to watch this crap.

 

[Death]

Then kicked him in the shin

Indeed. No penalty.

 

[maccavennie]

Never a pen in a 1000 years that. The fella should be booked for diving as well.

 

[Billy Dean]

Would prefer to see trezeguet booked tbh. Was an embarrassing dive. Players trained to lash themselves to the floor if they feel anything.

Yeah he was way too theatrical. But if you stay on your feet you don’t get the foul as has been shown in other recent games

 

[TheBigIguana]

Unfortunately so, yes.

For people saying "but he got the man!" - is the defender supposed to make his leg disappear after winning the ball? Never a penalty, unless you're Liverpool, United or Leicester.

People say this but it isn't really an argument. If you can't make the tackle successfully without getting a significant amount of the man then you don't need to make anything disappear you just need to not make the tackle and if you do it is a foul.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Salah gets that pen everytime

Defo.

And I can't see it getting overturned by VAR at OT either

 

[DanEFC92]

Never a pen in a 1000 years that. The fella should be booked for diving as well.

If he wears red of Liverpool or United it gets given.

 

[superkeeper]

The problem for me is saying he "wins" the ball is wrong as he's wound up to really hack it and we're letting him "win" it by having a little slice while most of his force is into the shins of the opponent. Getting the ball doesn't immediately make it not a foul and that's just my feeling here.

The thing for me is that he moves his foot out to the side to get a touch on the ball and not swinging it out in front of him and so I don’t think there was that much force when he caught him on the follow through and for me not enough to warrant it as a penalty. If he’d swing his leg out in front of him and caught him that way, then yes I’d be inclined to say that’s a foul regardless of whether he won the ball.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Yeah he was way too theatrical. But if you stay on your feet you don’t get the foul as has been shown in other recent games

Or maybe they could give the penalty but afterwards, a commitee could decide that, while it was a penalty, Trezeguet had exaggerated and ban him.

I think that happened once. Can't remember who to.

 

[carlos21]

Who is winning this game guys.

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

If he wears red of Liverpool or United it gets given.

There would also be no mention or inclination that the ball was touched first, it would just be a clear cut pen

 

[Chegsy]

If he wears red of Liverpool or United it gets given.

That’s the problem with VAR. End of the day if the decision is contentious it’s still someone’s opinion. Even in this thread some think it’s a pen and some don’t. 100% agree if that’s a Salah or a Fernandes they will say he took the man as well and it’s a pen.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

What’s strange is that VAR overturned it with clear contact. Makes you wonder what in world they am were looking at with Keane last year vs Brighton

and on this one, if it’s not a penalty, then for sure he needs to get a yellow for making the contact look like the defender took a baseball bat to his shin