Match Thread Everton v Manchester City - Team Prediction, Match Report & MotM Poll

[TheNinja]

Brentford had only won one of their previous 6 before tonight, they’re badly out of form

Wolves are in very good form.

 

[Baileys perm]

The penalty call you can freely disagree with, but the decision as made was a completely reasonable one and screaming corruption on something like that is really self defeating.

The ref isn’t changing his mind because of City players he’s asking his assistant which is imo pretty easy to see if you watch the video.

It sucks, there are maybe some days we get away with it, but today we didn’t. Move on.

1rule for 1 and a different rule for others there’s no excuse it’s just blatant

 

[ToffeeTim]

The penalty call you can freely disagree with, but the decision as made was a completely reasonable one and screaming corruption on something like that is really self defeating.

The ref isn’t changing his mind because of City players he’s asking his assistant which is imo pretty easy to see if you watch the video.

It sucks, there are maybe some days we get away with it, but today we didn’t. Move on.

Zero consistency

We don't get those, big sides do.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Zero consistency

We don't get those, big sides do.

Yep there’s no consistency.

I’m just tired of this every week. It happens. Next match.

 

[TheBigIguana]

1rule for 1 and a different rule for others there’s no excuse it’s just blatant

This is an entirely different situation. And yeah the Rodri one was wrong, but we’re just talking about different things so who cares?

 

[ToffeeTim]

Yep there’s no consistency.

I’m just tired of this every week. It happens. Next match.

The only consistency is which sides do get those decisions on a regular basis

 

[TheBigIguana]

The only consistency is which sides do get those decisions on a regular basis

That’s not even true really

 

[ToffeeTim]

That’s not even true really

The decisions this City side get are absolutely crazy.

I'm not even afraid to say they get more than the reds, because they do.

Refs appear to be scared to give decisions against City

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

Guess who we got next? They warmed up with a 4-1 win at Brentford....

Brentford spent the entire game passing the ball to opposing strikers to tap in. I would have beaten them tonight on my own. Wolves confidence should be shattered because they barely created anything for themselves.

 

[Mashtray]

The penalty call you can freely disagree with, but the decision as made was a completely reasonable one and screaming corruption on something like that is really self defeating.

The ref isn’t changing his mind because of City players he’s asking his assistant which is imo pretty easy to see if you watch the video.

It sucks, there are maybe some days we get away with it, but today we didn’t. Move on.

Since when have linesman had the confidence to call handball in the last 6 years? First I've seen since then.

If that as a non penalty goes to var it shouldn't be overturned

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

1rule for 1 and a different rule for others there’s no excuse it’s just blatant

Annoyingly the handball rule has actually changed since then. But no one knows what it’s changed too. They probably wouldn’t even apologise for that one any more as he wasn’t blocking a shot and it took a slightly distracting spinny bounce. Probably apologise to Rodri.

 

[Rodebaard]

The penalty call you can freely disagree with, but the decision as made was a completely reasonable one and screaming corruption on something like that is really self defeating.

The ref isn’t changing his mind because of City players he’s asking his assistant which is imo pretty easy to see if you watch the video.

It sucks, there are maybe some days we get away with it, but today we didn’t. Move on.

Agree with this. Lot of people complaining about the pen, but I don't think it was that bad a decision really. He did block a shot with his arm, and we'd be sick if we didn't get the decision at the other end.
I feel like the handball rule is mess anyway. Easier just to assume everything that hits your arm is handball. All the stuff about unnatural arm positions is just way too subjective for me

 

[carolinablue232]

The penalty call you can freely disagree with, but the decision as made was a completely reasonable one and screaming corruption on something like that is really self defeating.

The ref isn’t changing his mind because of City players he’s asking his assistant which is imo pretty easy to see if you watch the video.

It sucks, there are maybe some days we get away with it, but today we didn’t. Move on.

It’s only reasonable if there is consistency. Those point blank shots onto hands/arms are almost never given these days. When they are given it’s because there’s a hand so outstretched it can be considered unnatural…It’s not a penalty this year in other circumstances so of course folks are going to look at who it’s given to and who it’s given against when something unusual or against the grain is called.

 

[GH_1982]

Foden's strike was fantastic and would've gone in against anyone.

The pen was a sham that should never have been given.

Silva's was a great opportunistic goal based on Pickford allowing himself to be harried out of position and into passing a poor pass.

That last one is the only City goal that we might've prevented, so I'm taking the positives rather than the negatives from this game.

I think this is a fair summary - though I wish (beto I think,,) closed him down by putting pressure on him.

The lads are putting in serious effort which wasn't there every game in previous years so difficult to be critical of them.

Penalties at this stage are beyond a joke how the linesman saw it is beyond me.


Oh and I hate the gee bag jack grealish!!

 

[dannyboy]

We had a spell in the first half, where we got a goal and could’ve pushed on.

But on balance, I thought we gave it a decent crack.

For a team who'd won 1 in 6 in the league together with missing a couple of star players I thought we would've done more. Probably a unfair expectation because our recent run of form has been above where we are actually at right now.