It will be a 3 game ban for Granit correct ? Next domestic game available the NLD ?
I donât know, but I donât think heâd start the nld over Coq anyway. Things can happen in three weeks ofc, I guess weâll see.
Has been a stupid tackle, for me the red card has been a right decision by the Ref. He could have stopped Barrow with a shove, not with a kick on his calf. Apart this, he has played a bad game. He was totally out of game, not focused and a little bit tired.
Never a red.
If these types of decisions are consistent from now on, then iâm fine with that, but they wonât be.
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I still donât think it was a red but it was one of them ones where Iâm not surprised he got sent off. For me the way he made Barrow clip his own heel made it look a whole lot worse than it was, especially cause Barrowâs rapid.
Nevertheless fair play to Xhaka though at least he was in position to stop the counter attack (4 on 2) took one for the team nicely, barring his mistake that lead to Sigurdssonâs goal I thought he had a good game too.
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There game ban is only for violent conduct. I donât think this counts as that tbh but it will depend on what the ref puts in his reportâŚ
Did he go studs up? I donât think so and if he didnât then no red card.
Chelsea, Liverpool and United get away with similar for yellows.
Poor stuff by John Moss.
Hmm, I remember reading about the new rules that were introduced this season but I donât remember this one. Like the cards for offensive language and contesting decisions, this will be enforced so rarely that whenever it is, itâll cause confusion and debate.
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Tbh, when you watch it live the deliberateness of the foul was just so blatant that I was kinda fearing it would be a red from the moment it happened. Canât remember a foul so deliberate done with the legs, he was literally just trying to get enough of him to trip him up. Also, he tries to hold him up with his arms but misses, so thatâs why he goes in with his legs. Dunno, think he just had to let him beat him/run with him the best he could once he missed with his arms.
The real question is wtf is Coquelin doing there, talk about poor positioning.
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Its a good rule⌠as Cuellar said, it was as deliberate and cynical as they come, without even the remotest hope of looking anything other than what it was. When grabbing a nearby player, that is one thing, when they are literally sprinting by you and you only chance is to karate kick the back of their leg to trip them up, it should be red.
Itâs debatable. I reckon if he slid normally making contact with Barrowâs foot solely and just tripped him up, it would have been a yellow.
Because Xhakaâs foot was high making contact with his shin area, thereâs an argument for red.
Such tackles should be red, so if there is a rule which makes it a red; I am delighted.
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Even if that rule exists weâll unfortunately only see it enforced this one time.
I donât really agree with this fouls being more deliberate than others. I dont think a deliberate foul has degrees, itâs either deliberate or it isnât by the rules of the game. If thatâs now a red card offence, fine but I think we all know weâll see worse deliberate tackles than that go unpunished next weekend, never mind the rest of the season.
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No doubt when it happens to us it will be a caution or at worst a yellow.
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If he had let him go and they ended up scoring an equaliser everyone would be screaming he should have taken him out taking one for the team and stoping the counter attack before it began
For all we know if he hadnât fouled him their the game could have ended 3-3
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No doubt. In reality the situation is a bad one, thanks to Coquelinâs poor decision making, leaving him on an island, and Xhaka getting turned by Barrow perhaps too easily, and heâs faced with two bad decisions. I think the best of the bad decisions wouldâve been to run with him and at least try to provide some pressure, but yeah, bad situation.
It was a bad play from seconds before the incident, so no way should we give him pass and say âwhat if they had scored?â
It was a really bad read compounded by the red (maybe Le Coq was complicit, but a great player reads that earlier and plays it smart, getting in proper position and with proper movement to not let it get to the point that it did). Given that he was involved in 2 crucial (BAD) incidents, it was a game to forget for Xhaka. Just one game though - hopefully he can come back soon more settled in the team, but for now back to you, Le Coq.
Pulling someoneâs shirt from behind is deliberate and sometimes too blatant as well but is always punished with a yellow. Why should a tackle be any different? It wasnât malicious or dangerous, I donât see why he was red-carded.
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The difference, for me, is that to pull someoneâs shirt you have to be near him. Granit wasnât able to get him with his arms and so resorted to a flying kung fu trip.
The play itself took seconds from the Monrealâs cross to the foul, and yes fact that Swansea would have a great chance to score. In fact I would expect any player to foul the attacker there if they felt they couldnât recover.
No, is not a maybe, Coquelin idiotic charge for a loss cause is a big reason why the play is so dangerous.
It took about 6 seconds between Monreal terrible cross(who shouldnât have been in that position since he was the only wide player on the left wing by then) and the foul, so that whole thing youâre describing⌠itâs just fantasy and it doesnât happens in the real world.
Not even that, I mean seeing the video Xhaka could have tried to grab his shirt after the first attempt but he just said fuck it and when to the ground.
I would expect any player going to ground like that to get carded, if one add the context of the foul (that cutting a play like that it another yellow card offense) then the red card isnât a big surprise. The play was at minimum an âorangeâ card.
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