I don't like Mike Dean reffing our games, I thought he was as poor as ever today and I think because he is from the Liverpool area and doesn't want to be seen as favouring us in anyway, he takes it completely the opposite way.
Today he
Gave Brighton the kind of soft free kicks for going to ground feigning injury without sufficient contact and with no contact in some instances that refs are supposed to not be giving and haven't been giving as a rule
Let Oxlade get fouled by a couple of their players, then when Oxlade got free of both and we had a significant advantage from that, blew his whistle
Still not convinced there is compelling and clear evidence the ball hits Mane's arm, but, we got the benefit of a couple v City and this season so far has been pretty decent refereeing and VAR wise without the raft of stitch ups we suffered last season so no real complaints about that
All in all, having watched the extended highlights and getting a better view than the poxy stream on small screen I watched the game on we only had ourselves to blame, the failure to invest in another No6 who can play LCM or RCM controller as when necessary in the summer cost us points today, the game changed when Naby had to go off and unlike in most games this season in attack, we were very wasteful today, lots of poor decision making from the forwards and 2 or 3 from Robbo
Most notably after Brighton's equaliser Robbo made a double error for, when Hendo fed him in space inside left a little deep and burst into the box along with Mo, both in positions to connect with the short low ball in they were looking for from Robbo ahead of their defenders in a 2v2 but both our lads in the box seat, and Robbo plays it wide to fucking Ox, there were a few instances from other players when it was on all day long to play a low ball into the centre and they went wide, something Jurgen commented on specifically post match also. A couple that were played in Mo took a touch on, when he could have and the last few weeks would have hit first time for the bottom left, defender might have got something on it, it might have sneaked past them and if it had, it's a goal
Bad day at the office, Brighton are our Premier League Atletico the last 2 seasons, Potter seems able to give Jurgen real problems he struggles to get on top of, surely top of the list for the filthy job
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