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Originally Posted by Cummon
Hindsight  Had we won the game many will say Rafa got it right. Looked at what he & some of our players say before the game, confident but not arrogant. Jinx or mental block, while playing against the scums, we seemed to concede goals that were not too difficult to defend. |
Agreed bro. I have no complaints we were poor before the red. But actually the Inter game at the San Siro was the same, we just stepped it up a bit in the second half. Remember, Cruz was wrecking all sorts of havoc with our defence then.
Skrtel has been a solid player so far but the defence is not properly organised (set piece, holding the line, playing offside etc).
On the other hand, Bennett has to take a lot of blame for the result. He knows very well by sending a player off for dissent he has really decided the game there and then (and perhaps the league title). This is complete bullshit.
The refs got to realise you don't win respect for the men in black by sending off players for 'asking'. WTF it was not as if we had a whole bunch of players in his face!!
Ok, the man is sent off, result is done. Let's see if the refs are consistent about this dissent issue. Unless the FA passes some kind of rule against it, I'm sure there is going to be a lot of inconsistency among the refs, some of whom are not willing to book players easily. So it's just shite that it happened to us on a big day.