Yeah, that's what I had assumed (and the highlights playing now the presenter says the same re: the offence), I was confused by Klopp complaining about a three game ban, so I was wondering if he was told something else by the officials.
Klopp was on SSN talking about a three match ban for Van Dijk.
Was that really deemed serious foul play? I can understand it as a red for denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity, but not as serious foul play.
He wasn't in the keeper's eyeline, he wasn't challenging the keeper, it didn't look to me that the keeper took him into account at all (i.e. he didn't move to cover the offside player - if he had, he may have saved the shot), he didn't stop the keeper from getting to where he needed to stop the...
Equaliser for Sheffield United. United player in an offside position, so will be deemed 'controversial', but I don't think he had any impact on the keeper, but City will claim he did.
And now City have retaken the lead.
No it wasn't. The West Ham players arm was down, preparing to brace himself as he slid to ground. The Sheffield Utd players arm was up in the air away from his body. It's a small difference, but it has been a key difference for quite a while.
(Yes, yesterday's was a lot more similar to the...
I wondered that. Replays show his heel scraped the ball. To me, that's not enough, the only way he makes contact with the ball is by going through the player and scissoring his leg out from under him, but with VAR, who knows what way they'd go. Contact with the ball enough for it not to be a...
11mins in, still 0-0. But I think most of the chat on todays game is gonna be in the Chelsea or Luton thread.
https://www.northstandchat.com/threads/chelsea-or-luton.403109/page-3