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In fact what CHO does particularly well is timing his run into a wider position. He’ll stand close to the fullback when the ball’s in the other side, then as it comes back to one of the midfielders like Jorginho, he’ll suddenly pull away from the defender and go as far wide as possible, in acres of space for the switch pass.

There was a good video Cmf linked about this. Yes, I know it’s Cmf.

comment by CSTP (U1453)
posted 13 minutes ago
In fact what CHO does particularly well is timing his run into a wider position. He’ll stand close to the fullback when the ball’s in the other side, then as it comes back to one of the midfielders like Jorginho, he’ll suddenly pull away from the defender and go as far wide as possible, in acres of space for the switch pass.

There was a good video Cmf linked about this. Yes, I know it’s Cmf.

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Thought RJ was quite good defensively against Liverpool, kept Robertson pretty quiet throughout. He's usually their main outlet too.

Some of his choices on the ball were negative though

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CHO as wb is fine against teams who are likely to sit back as he can provide the width etc.

And Chilwell>Alonso anyday

Saw a replay of that Arsenal penalty appeal. Can’t believe that wasn’t a handball. One of the clearest ones I’ve ever seen.

Arsenal should’ve had a penalty.

Beat me to it CSTP.

I thought not giving a pen against CHO was right
The Kante one, I think should’ve been a handball

The disallowed Fulham goal against Spurs was ridiculous

But this one was miles worse than all of those incidents

Yeah these handball and offside rules are ruining the season. VAR or no VAR it’s a massive issue.

Need to come up with something more clear cut while also taking into account practicalities of playing the game and whether or not there’s an actual unfair advantage from breaching the rules.

Having your arm offside doesn’t give you an unfair advance. But sticking your arm far out and the ball hitting your hand does.

BK it sounds like you joined Football Index at a bad time

comment by CSTP (U1453)
posted 15 minutes ago
Yeah these handball and offside rules are ruining the season. VAR or no VAR it’s a massive issue.

Need to come up with something more clear cut while also taking into account practicalities of playing the game and whether or not there’s an actual unfair advantage from breaching the rules.

Having your arm offside doesn’t give you an unfair advance. But sticking your arm far out and the ball hitting your hand does.
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It never used to be a problem. Decisions were based on a much simpler criteria. Scott Parker is not the most articulate of people, but he nailed it when he said the game is becomi g obsessed with purification. That's simply not attainable.

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comment by CSTP (U1453)
posted 18 minutes ago
BK it sounds like you joined Football Index at a bad time
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Yeah dunno wtf is going on haha, lucky I didn’t put too much in. So many stories though of people putting several thousands of pounds in, crazy.

My 42 shares in Mavropanos gone 😡

Ampadu concedes a pen, he was lucky imo not to concede another over the weekend

Has Football Index folded?

comment by Sideshow (U11809)
posted 42 minutes ago
Kante’s arm was tucked in. If common sense prevailed that wouldn’t even be debatable as handball.

Given the current state of the game though you could say we got away with one.

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Thank you!

Sometimes I feel like we sometimes say things just to appear unbiased but in this instance, even though his arm was raised, like you said his arm was tucked in and I feel only in that position for balance. Kante has done this a million times. It seems common sense prevailed that time and in the CHO call.

Morning

comment by Blarmy (U14547)
posted 16 minutes ago
Has Football Index folded?
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I don’t quite understand what they’ve done but they’ve changed some of the structure of the markets and transactions which a lot of their users didn’t like. And I think both from those changes and users selling all their shares as they’ve had enough and want out, the entire ‘market’ has dropped.

One of the most valuable players Jadon Sancho who’s shares just a few weeks ago cost around £7 now is around £2. Some users can have hundreds of shares in players

Happy Birthday, Timo

Monday match?? Ffs