By Tony Attwood
I can’t believe how the players felt, but I was absolutely exhausted and satisfied, although arguably not as satisfied as Leandro Trossard, who is now only the third player to score in each of his first three Champions League home games for Arsenal. two were Alexis Sanchez and Bukayo Saka.
And I guess we have to keep waiting for Ødegaard’s assists. It’s seven this season, as many as he’s missed all season and we’ve been given at least 12 games to play. Our Martin has seven assists for Arsenal this season in total. competitions, with his first in the Champions League last night. And he scored nine goals. I wonder why Real Madrid let him go.
But the mistakes we noticed in the articles after the first game and the build-up to that game continued. With 74 fouls between the two games, it’s the most fouls in a Champions League match in 8 years, almost matching the 76. between Bayern Munich and Juventus in a remarkable match in the past. At least Arsenal were supposedly more prepared this time, either for fouls or referee reactions.
And, of course, something must be said about Pepe, who has become the first outfield player over the age of 40 to take part in a Champions League match; It’s hard to find a word that’s rarely so rude, it might give the most sensitive readers pause. Look somewhere else.
Because here we have the guy who attacked Javi Casquero with what he called a mockery and who, according to the court, deserved a 10-game suspension. The Telegraph will offer him “a certain degree of grudging admiration”, which is much more. of what I’m offering you.
But the challenge for Porto is that their main activity is what the media calls “black magic” to hide the fact that it is necessarily about cheating and deceiving the referee. The “dark arts” can make it look as pretty as possible, which in fact, it isn’t. God knows how long they’ve been in control of any kind of set-piece, but if that’s how things are going in their league games, they’ve got to be the worst team to stick to during the week. and week off.
Perhaps that’s why itinerants focused most of their efforts on smuggling flares into the ground, which they once did with wonderful success. But the statistics are troubling. Arsenal commit an average of 9. 5 fouls per game according to PGMO referees, but in this match they were deemed to have committed 17, at most double their overall average. Of course, I suppose they will have to commit a little more given that Porto committed 20 fouls.
The Telegraph called the Portuguese technique “black magic,” which is one way of putting it, but fundamentally it’s a foul and an attempt to get away with protesting every single whistle. At least the Telegraph explained what was going on by calling the rival “an intriguing and simply despicable Porto team”. His technique, led by Pepe, is obvious: he argues with the referee before the first whistle until after the last, but he gets away with it one way or another. Just as Pepe escaped from a fall when an Arsenal player came within five yards. It will be smart to return to football soon.
Perhaps most worryingly, some lower-tier Premier League clubs will watch the film of that game and think, “We can’t beat them in football, but Porto beat them in a Champions League game. . . “Let’s take a look at this strategy. I’m not sure the PGMO is willing to stand up to them.
Chelsea commit an average of 12. 4 fouls per game in the league, compared to 37 this season. One can only hope that Chelsea and their comrades in the lower leagues were not watching and that instead seeing this as anti-football, a survival plan. Again, I’m not sure the PMS knows how to deal with this.
So it’s all over and we can look forward (???) to the next competition war. I suppose it’s football, but not football as we know it.
Rinus Michels, coach of the Dutch national team in 1974, once said: “Football is war. “I, Porto, played with that a bit. . . I’m glad he won football.
I just listened to the nasty TNT commentators as I listened to Arsenal. com’s commentary, and every time I did, they would congratulate the referee on his performance and tell us how much each would have to appreciate his performance when he left it. The game unfolds. ?
I really?
Allowing one team to kick the other isn’t allowing the game to play out, it’s allowing the other team to cheat. They have continually praised the left-back for the way he “handled” Saka. MANAGED! He was expelled from one pillar to another without any protection. Luckily for us, Saka is an incredibly difficult cookie, but it’s understandable that when those attacks go unchecked, they affect his gameplay.
In addition, allowing groups to kick each other has precisely the opposite effect of “letting the game go on” as it is interrupted when players are actually injured and down, or faking injury and down.
I don’t know how long the ball was in play, but I think it was similar to the first leg.
I like this referee, but I think he was mediocre last night.
Okay, Nitram. La response from Saka in the opening minutes of the game deserved to have been a yellow card and then they would know they couldn’t get away with it. Now he just let it go and that was the signal for more kicks. But overall he was much better than the referee in the first leg, who was actually awful.
Walter
Accept.
Like I said, I think he’s a smart referee and I think we can all see that his confidence and communication with the players is exceptional. I just think they gave it the wrong balance.
It is conceivable that he saw how badly the first match had been treated with endless interruptions and made the decision that he was indeed going to “let the match unfold”. Unfortunately, this only gave Porto even more leeway to employ those famous “black forces”. And we ended up with so many stops.
The conclusion is. Porto’s tactics are “destructive” and no matter how the referee decided to take care of the game, he would still try to destroy it.
No other than the one contracted through Stoke and West Brom, etc. , then.
It’s a team that’s maturing every week, every game, in front of our eyes. The players are improving. Find answers as a team. And what impresses me a lot is the way in which the “mix” that Mr. Arteta puts on the pitch ends up being to solve the puzzles.
Who would have imagined that Jorginho would be like that in certain games?Or that Kiwior would end up being so good?
I just wish Eddie and ESR could get back to the top. . . Again, puts are expensive and I sense how confusing it is. Changing a winning team is undeniable. It’s Fantasy Football
According to statistics, one team whistled 20 times and the other 17. Let the game unfold?
goonersince72
Precisely, “letting the game develop” gave Porto even more room for manoeuvre to do their job.
The only way to deal with the tactics contracted through groups like Porto is as Walter said before. That first Saka inauguration deserved to have been a card. It was not issued.
From that moment on, they knew they had the freedom to do what they wanted, and in the end, this attempt to “let the game play out” had precisely the opposite effect.
Cris
Well said
It has been, and indeed is, an absolute pleasure to see this evolve.
I had to cut the comment. Ally McCoist couldn’t keep her mouth shut. If I thought Turpin had made a smart game, then I have to question his judgment of the referees. Did you think waving an imaginary card and carelessly returning the ball was an appropriate course of action?Turpin allowed the same old thing. Knocking down Saka’s ankles and legs will be routine. I’m very pleased to have been able to beat a Porto team that gave Mourinho a masterclass.
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