devilsadvocate wrote:Looking forward to JTC's review of the city-clarets game. I thought the penalty was dubious - looked like the keeper got plenty of the ball?
Hard to hold City back the way they're playing, but that didn't help.
Aaron Mooy tek a boo son. What an absolutely class piece of play and peach of a finish. Who cares if he's not usain bolt, he is quality.
Massive opportunity for Spurs tonight.
Two disappointing decisions DA. The penalty happened at the other end of the ground to where we were sat, but even from there looked ropey. The Burnley lads are a pretty honest bunch of players in the scheme of things and their reaction suggested he dived. Watching it later on the gogglebox confirms City were very fortunate.
The other incident happened at our end when Woods broke through and the keeper came out to claim the ball. From behind the goals he clearly didn't have both hands on the ball and Arfield was well within his rights to take the ball and go for goal. The ref was blindsided and couldn't possibly tell if the keeper had the ball or not, but chose blow and signalled it was because the keeper had the ball. Had Arfield been allowed to play on as he should have been, he would have been in on an open goal with only a City defender on the line. In fact the reaction from the two City defenders who both ran goalwards just confirms that they didn't think the keeper had the ball either.
There's no doubt that City are probably the best side in the league this year, but one thing the Clarets are good at and that's parking the bus and defending at all costs. Take away the penalty goal and chalk one up to Arfield and it might have been a different result. We might have even got a draw.
