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Indeed, as have those who reckon the tackle wasn't high. Bennett's studs were closer to Sane's knee than his feet! Had the ball been involved, Bennett would have been over the top of it, but apparently it can't be described as a high tackle because it was Sane's ankle that got injured. The lad's fortunate his foot wasn't firmly planted when Bennett came flying in or the injury would certainly have been a whole lot worse.
Thats odd because Bennett wasn't even marking Sterling, who was playing through the middle, at all. Manga lost Sterling for the goal. Bernado Silva was on Bennetts side and was a handful all match but I thought Bennett did ok. i think people who try to claim that Bennett deliberately tried to injure Sane have got just as 'serious issues' as you put it. All the evidence (including the evidence of my own eyes watching him play) is that Bennett is not that type of player (only sent off twice before in 9 years).
Look - I agree it was a bad tackle and could have been a sending off but in real time during the game it looked fairly innocuous - just a trip, which is why I think the ref didnt send him off. It was only when slowed down in replay that it could be clearly seen, as everyone was moving so fast. Also, the Man City physios as well as the player obviously didnt think it was too bad at the time because the player came straight back on the pitch and played on - that in itself could have caused more damage. I wouldnt be surprised if he reappears in one or two weeks. When Sane was running with the ball towards our penalty box, loads of people were screaming for someone to tackle him or bring him down, so there is some hypocrisy going on here in my opinion.
Feels like there's more people on here who support man city more then they support Cardiff city.
Don't be such a drama queen.
It was a bad tackle, but over the years I e seen or been involved in hundreds worse.
Tackles when a player comes flying in with the intention of hurting the opponent, ones where they can hit the ball but choose to go over the top.
I've had shin pads broken clean in half, I've had as a 16 year old a grown man smash me time and again in a friendly game just because I was a bit quick . I've been elbowed in the face many times with clear intent and seen it ignored by the ref and seen players punch, kick and head but others.
I've put in plenty of similar challenges to Bennett and I've seen hundreds out in both in games I've played in and watched ..
To me the games goung to get to the point where players will be afraid to go to ground and I LOVE a sliding tackle.
By the way , I don't moan when it happens to us either.
I'd like to see a few Opponents sent off, of course... anything to help, but I'm more likely to complain about us ALLOWING the opposition to bully us than blame them for doing so.
The stick Bennett has had over this is ridiculous
Quite the opposite really.
The reason he has damaged ankle ligaments is BECAUSE all his weight was on the foot that Bennett caught.
The other one is in the air.
If he hadn't had his weight on it then he most likely would have just gone over it and not hurt himself.
I would also say that Bennett probably tried to take the near foot rather than the far one as well.
Sane also managed to stay on for a few minutes which is quite impressive.
When I did mine I couldn't move and was in a cast and crutches for 3 weeks ( although I was back playing in a similar time to that expected of Sane).
Makes me think either he's got an incredible pain threshold or he'll be back well before the 6 weeks Pep is estimating.. possibly to back his 'protection' point up
Anyway. More importantly. Jazz to left back , Bruno right back and Bamba back in the middle.
Whats Bennett got a 1 game ban for 2 yellow?
this ^^^^
he had to make the Tackle, he made a hash of it, but lets not forget, this is football, you can make tackles in the sport ( for the time being )
We have all seen worse tackle that have only had a yellow card
You can bet if this tackle had happened in the previous round and it was a Mansfield player, we wouldnt be having this discussion
Guess we won't be media darlings this season then. Some of the over-reaction from not just social media, but traditional print media is ridiculous
Sterling is up the right in the build-up to the second goal. When he passes it on and moves inside, Bennett tracks him but gets distracted and ends up in no-man's land. I'll agree that Manga was probably more at fault but the point I was making was that maybe Bennett was frustrated at the second goal and took some of that frustration out on Sane, I don't know. It was a mad challenge for the second booking too for someone who's not 'that kind of player'.
I haven't seen anyone claim he was trying to injure Sane but only he knows what he was thinking. I agreed that it was most likely that he wasn't but if you go into a challenge in that way then it's pretty hard to plead innocence afterwards. Choice and consequence. I've seen people trying to trip others up since I was in the school playground but I've never seen anyone do it like that.
The referees need to protect players - why on earth the ref didn't see what was going to happen and bodychecked Bennett to the floor I have no idea.