The pen that wasn't vs Southampton

holdsteady

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One of the worst calls I've ever seen. VAR is a joke.

IF goal difference comes into play at the end of the year it will be one of the worst decisions of all time.
 

Sandikan

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It was odd, as Cavani has a huge foot, and had about 15% of it on the line, but the foul was on the bit of the foot outside the box.

They seem to compartmentalise even bits of limbs now!
 

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I thought it was a free kick but clearly I don't know the rules.
 

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It's where the offence took place. Cavani's toe was on the line but the part that made contact was not.
 

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It's where the offence took place. Cavani's toe was on the line but the part that made contact was not.
That's insane. So if an attacker is running in the box but is pulled back by his arm which is outside the box then it's a freekick?
 

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We were about to score, the ref pulled it back. Ridiculous, considering they let obvious off sides play on for ever before they blow.
 

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It's never clear and obvious so can't see why it was overturned.
 

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Happy with the win of course but that was no way a penalty. Martial dived 100%. Why didn't he celebrate his goal afterwoods? He looked sick leaving the field? Bad conscience written all over his face.
 

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Don't care about the pen as much as the advabtage not being played. Greenwood scored
 

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Happy with the win of course but that was no way a penalty. Martial dived 100%. Why didn't he celebrate his goal afterwoods? He looked sick leaving the field? Bad conscience written all over his face.
Martial did nothing wrong. All players would have gone down in that situation.

Mike Dean gonna Mike Dean. He saw his opportunity for another celebrity ref moment, and he seized on it.
 

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The entire game was a farce from VAR. A VARce?

The only unquestionably correct call was the first red card. And, well, that didn't need much of a review.
 

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Not giving the advantage there was brutal! What was Dean thinking? Greenwood buries that 9 times of 10!
 

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It was odd, as Cavani has a huge foot, and had about 15% of it on the line, but the foul was on the bit of the foot outside the box.

They seem to compartmentalise even bits of limbs now!
I mean the plantar aspect of the first metatarsal was clearly outside the box, no idea what everyone’s complaining about.
 

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Happy with the win of course but that was no way a penalty. Martial dived 100%. Why didn't he celebrate his goal afterwoods? He looked sick leaving the field? Bad conscience written all over his face.
Martial didn't celebrate his goal before the penalty shout either, so either he's psychic, or your point is dross.
 

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Martial did nothing wrong. All players would have gone down in that situation.

Mike Dean gonna Mike Dean. He saw his opportunity for another celebrity ref moment, and he seized on it.
Martial not doing anything wrong shows you where we're at in todays football. Mike Dean should get reprimanded for that decision. After seeing it himself on VAR I wouldn't have agued if he'd given Martial a yellow.
 

Tom Cato

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Happy with the win of course but that was no way a penalty. Martial dived 100%. Why didn't he celebrate his goal afterwoods? He looked sick leaving the field? Bad conscience written all over his face.
Well going by what was heard on the pitchside mic, even Martial told Bednarek that it wasnt a penalty. The problem is that Mike Dean's hands are completely tied the moment he looks at the screen and jduges it IS a foul.
 

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Oh, FFS, do we have dipper fans pretending to be United fans on this forum?

We've been getting shafted, denied a clear goal for 5-0 in the first half and somehow you whine we had an unjust pen?
 

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Football is a game right...
So Martial goes down easily and got a pen.
He chose the easier route, he got it.

So..why is it a problem? A slight touch is a touch, according to the rules.