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Anyhow, Im sure Dean Smith will have sweet dreams tonight 🤯 ⚒️⚒️⚒️
Moyes very honest as usual.
Thought Dec and Johnson’s interview was good - Happy Hammers!
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Fornals one was a 50-50 and lots of them saying Bowen should have been sent off for pushing over that nasty piece of work McGinn, even though McGinn fell over like a sack of root vegetables.
Delusional, horrible lot.
Get over it, Villa. Thought the ref was very good today in what was a tricky game in an intimidating atmosphere.
Hause - 100% a red, confused on this one not being given so wrong decision.
Konsa - I think people saying he's wide are reaching and this should be red, correct decision.
Fornals - I think it's a 50/50, I would give a yellow, I've seen these given as red though so given the air of the game I think we got a little lucky. But correct in my view.
McGinn - confrontational and aggressive behaviour, yellow, correct.
Bowen - push in the chest, yellow, correct.
Whoever it was on Antonio - not seen a close up replay, looked minimum yellow at full speed - unsure because no replays.
One bad decision out of 6.
Rightly talking up the Bowen goal as a great goal, and showing how well we work with and without the ball.
But having seen the goals again (for about the sixth time tonight), I'm surprised more people aren't talking about Johnson's goal. If Alexander-Arnold scored that it would be everywhere and Sky would have already made a documentary about it.
For me, the elbow was not only a stone cold red, it defies common sense with VAR that its not given.
However, as the two red card or not decisions were seconds apart and in the same sequence, if the referee let the elbow incident go (to come back to it later) to play the advantage for us (only for it to result in a clear goal scoring opportunity) one of the incidents wouldn't have existed without the advantage being played.
Normally, if the ref goes back after playing the advantage and dispenses a yellow card, this is pretty frequent...
Longwindedly (as I just dont have the brain cells to be concise today), going back after the passage of play has been stopped and making decisions on 2 red cards this, for me, is unprecedented in the Premier League VAR era, no?
All that said, he could've given the denial red and gone back and at least dispensed a yellow (although it WAS a red IMO) for the elbow/slam into Pablo.
Retrospective action because no yellow was dispensed anyone?????
Re the advantage and then sending of, we had that happen to us with Dawson against Newcastle last season. I’d never seen advantage played and the ref go back for a red, but clearly it can happen.
Johnson as a schoolboy. 😂
I would actually be disappointed if there was no retrospective action - although that would not actually benefit us.
Pleased for Johnson, how good is he, and Rice to score and Fornals efforts to get up with play for the third goal was magnificent. He's not blessed with electric pace but seems to get himself into good positions. Our fourth was an excellent team goal and really unselfish by Manu to lay it off.
Agree that there should have been 2 reds for Hause and Konsa. Even MOTD2 laughed at Nakumba rolling away from the Fornals tackle, which was a straight 50-50 imo. Dean Smith still believes that every penalty and card against Villa are the result of poor refereeing decisions, so deluded.
The players celebrated with the fans at the end with Johnson, Soucek, Antonio, Fab and Rice throwing shirts /gloves into the fans. Rice didn't want to leave the pitch, he was quite pumped.
Bring on Liverpool.
COYI