First of all, Man City were the better team and deserved to win. BUT we were completely robbed by 2 awful offside decisions.
I see the media are justifying the poor decisions by the fact that we didn't play well. BUT should a team that doesn't play well lose unfairly? no. We have seen million of times, teams have a bad day but then get a draw or even a win. It's even referred to as the sign of champions.
If we had got a draw playing like that then everyone would say it's a good point. The fact is we were 1-0 up and City won by not scoring a legitimate goal. You can understand Arsene's frustrations. To make 2 huge errors in a game of this magnitude is unforgivable.
Trapping forwards offside requires great skill and blaming defenders for those goals when they did their jobs is just stupid
Next time we are playing well against a team that isn't playing well, should we handle the ball into the net and it will count as a goal?.
Hypocrisy
posted on 19/12/16
comment by Blue_mooning (U12093)
posted 1 minute ago
The 1st was lq
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The defenders leg played him onside I have seen the replays and I think onside was the correct decision, my opinion though.
posted on 19/12/16
But the rule is there. Apparently, no one gets given offside for it. Except stones goal v soton
posted on 19/12/16
comment by Micky Tyrion #freepalestine (U19221)
posted 5 minutes ago
Just like bellerin against musa, koscielny goal against Burnley, pen against soton.
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Have no idea why people keep mentioning our goal against Burnley. If that was a deliberate handball then we should have had 1-2 clear pens when our players hit the ball against the burnley defenders arm from a much bigger distance or does that not count.
Pen against saints was soft but how many of these soft pens have been given against us?
posted on 19/12/16
comment by LQ (U6305)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Blue_mooning (U12093)
posted 1 minute ago
The 1st was lq
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The defenders leg played him onside I have seen the replays and I think onside was the correct decision, my opinion though.
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Fair enough. Will have to see it again then, great play by him after regardless
posted on 19/12/16
@Scruttocks
...indeed. We won against Chelsea at home when we pressed them high up. Think as well that should be our tactics against City like Leicester done it with success. The only one who tries to press is Sanchez but he is alone.
posted on 19/12/16
comment by Blue_mooning (U12093)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by LQ (U6305)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Blue_mooning (U12093)
posted 1 minute ago
The 1st was lq
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The defenders leg played him onside I have seen the replays and I think onside was the correct decision, my opinion though.
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Fair enough. Will have to see it again then, great play by him after regardless
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No worries.
posted on 19/12/16
Two goals correctly given is the general opinion by many outside of Arsenal.
Considering Wenger is famed for his poor eyesight and not seeing certain things then it's remarkable that so quickly after the game both goals were certainly offside.
posted on 19/12/16
Yeah he must have had laser eye surgery
posted on 19/12/16
posted on 20/12/16
comment by Komakino (U7809)
posted 23 hours, 44 minutes ago
Two goals correctly given is the general opinion by many outside of Arsenal.
Considering Wenger is famed for his poor eyesight and not seeing certain things then it's remarkable that so quickly after the game both goals were certainly offside.
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By the letter of the law, the first goal was marginally (centimetres) offside. It would be interesting to see how that would have panned out, had the lineman been level and not slightly behind play.
If you look at the linesman's position, any decision would have been pure guesswork. In that instance he has to let it go.
The second one for me is completely open to your interpretation. I said at the time. after seeing a replay, that I was surprised the flag didn't go up against Silva.
That said, after I saw Gary Neville discuss it last night with the aid of virtual reality I can see an argument for and against.
He isn't in the line of Cech's sight at any point whatsoever but he did have a little kick out.
I suppose it's all down to whether you feel that action affected the outcome and distracted Cech in any way.
I think, in both circumstances, the goals were correctly given.