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No one saw Arsenal lose 4-1 to Manchester City and gave VAR even a passing consideration. However, national newspapers cannot let it go.
Rune Eclipse
History at the top The Sun Website At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, I missed the point a bit:
‘ARSENAL goalkeeper Alex Runarsson deleted his Twitter account after last night’s clash with Man City’
Poor guy. But it feels a bit like you miss a ‘because you got attacked with social media abuse’ between ‘account’ and ‘after’ there. He didn’t delete it because he had a bad game. He removed it because people were crazy about it.
Fortunately, the headline was changed in time for the increased lunchtime traffic:
‘Arsenal goalkeeper Alex Runarsson deletes Twitter account after social media abuse following Man City’s mistake’
Best.
Account capacity
The same cannot be said for the Daily Mirror …
‘Arsenal goalkeeper Alex Runarsson deletes Twitter account after Manchester City nightmare’
…or Soccer – London:
‘Arsenal goalkeeper Runar Alex Runarsson deletes Twitter account after mistake against Man City’
It’s useless. It is inaccurate. And it’s important to reflect the real situation: the abuse forced him to leave social media, not to mishandle a free kick from Riyad Mahrez.
Spurred on
Darren lewis accumulates in the Arsenal For him Daily mirror:
“These Carabao Cup quarter-finals were like most matches at the Emirates this season – for the visitors.”
In the Premier League, Arsenal have won as many home games as Manchester United and lost as many as Leicester.
“The Gunners are now the nightclub that used to be the most popular ticket in town. People get excited these days with the action on the other side of the street. ‘
Are you talking about the team with a point from their last three Premier League games here or has Mediawatch finally gone nuts?
Tottenham are obviously better than Arsenal at the moment, but they have actually scored nine goals in six games this month compared to the Gunners’ 11 in seven. The moral of this story is that none of the nightclubs are particularly “hot” or “exciting” right now.
Redden the envelope
The country’s largest newspaper is appalled by Phil Foden’s goal so Manchester City can be on their feet on Tuesday.
“ Television replays showed the young England star to be half a meter out of play when he played, but without the VAR to intervene, there was no one to forgive linesman Stuart Burt’s blush .”– Mark Irwin Sun.
How incredibly embarrassing for him to not have been confident enough to make this incredibly fringe call from across the field.
Phil Foden appeared to be offside when he made it 3-1 for Man City Arsenal.
VAR is not used in the Carabao Cup 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/SdEYg70DHE
– ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) December 22, 2020
If only there were someone who would ‘forgive the blushes’ from Irwin as he describes Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli as ‘the 19-year-old Argentine’ elsewhere in his match report. It is a pity that the VAR could not intervene there.
Clearly and obviously silly
“The double hit was completed when Phil Foden passed Runnarsson to make it 3-1 and put an end to Arsenal’s already slim hopes … only for replays to show the youngster from England was clearly offside” – Josh Graham, Sun.
That still image above doesn’t even show Foden is ‘clearly out of the game’; From that angle, no one can say with absolute certainty that no part of Shkodran Mustafi’s body is ahead of Foden.
Then you take into account that the decision had to be made in real time and you really start to wonder what people are expecting.
‘VAR annoying. You never know what you have until it’s over. ”
Indeed. And one of the main reasons we have it in the first place is because close incidents like these are described in terms like ‘clearly offside’ and it is worth ‘blushing’ by the referees rather than being accepted as simply part of the game.
If Foden was really offside, it was marginal and probably didn’t affect the actual result, so stop being childish and stop the obsession of carefully studying referee calls that could actually go either way.
Mail order
The absence of the VAR is also mentioned by most writers because of the situation of Fernandinho and Dani Ceballos, the latter falling to the ground after an apparent altercation with the former in the City penalty area.
As Matt Barlow writes in the Daily mail:
City seemed ready to flee with him and Arsenal’s desperation was summed up by Dani Ceballos throwing himself to the ground when he barely touched Fernandinho’s face as he pushed himself for space in a corner.
“Unlike the Premier League, there was no running VAR and referee Stuart Attwell was rightly not interested in Ceballos’ performance.”
How does he Mail online reflect this act of ‘despair’? What is your opinion on Ceballos’ ‘performance’ after being ‘barely touched’?
‘Fernandinho escapes punishment for slapping Dani Ceballos in the face during Manchester City’s 4-1 Carabao Cup quarter-final victory against Arsenal’
Congratulations on having your cake and eating it. And to the national newspapers for complaining about the VAR in every game since its inception and then trying to stoke the controversy over perceived errors in the referees as soon as it does not appear. Damn fools.
Jota pad
the Echo of Liverpool The headline of ‘Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo gets Diogo Jota admitted to transfer after Liverpool play’ promises something pretty big.
Is this ‘transfer admission’ that Michael Edwards is an unstoppable force of nature? Let’s find out from the actual quote itself.
“No, it doesn’t surprise me at all. Diogo’s quality, talent and dedication is amazing. I am pleased that Diogo is having an impact on Liverpool. I believe he is in the right place at the right time in his career, so I wish him all the best. At the same time, we thank him for all the good things he did for the Wolves. “
No No idea.
Rod to nowhere
‘Why José Mourinho can’t play Joe Rodon in Tottenham’s Carabao Cup tie against Stoke City’ – Soccer – London.
Is it because it is tied to a glass?
It takes eight paragraphs to clarify, but yeah, it’s surprising because it’s tied up. And that absolutely requires a 447 word explanation.
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