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Both penalties but as I said originally you can get away with a little nibble which is what Robinson did to Morrison, but you can’t wrap both arms around a player for 4/5 seconds and expect to get away with it.
If that was on the halfway line and a player is trying to wriggle free but defender has BOTH arms around him then it’s given as a foul.
Don’t get why Morrison fell for it; Salah was going nowhere. He backed in and then did a twisting dive with hands flailing which that ref bought. The ref was poor all game.
Manga made some great defensive moves on him.
It’s either a foul or not though.
If it is then it’s a pen- at both ends and countless other times.
Don’t think it is a free kick elsewhere, don’t remember too many like that given.
Salah is sneaky, he backs in and falls over.
It’s inconsistency again
Not that it would have made much difference, we MAY have equalised, but it was more likely they would score next by that point
Not going to dwell on it, but I really dislike Salah anyway- he’s a diving little cheat
Commentator on MOTD seemed surprised.
Known and Jenas both said pen, although their justifications wee a bit odd.
I like them though and they are generally fair.
Pity they weren’t asked about the one on Morrison at the other end. ( which imho is soft, but is still a foul, so a pen)
Not sure what else he can do there.
Where does his hands go ?
Salah is backing into him and he’s towering over Salah.
Also at one point Salah has hold of Morrison’s hand too.
I can see where you are coming from, Morrison was all over him.. but the dive - bloody hell mun, I thought the ref was going to book him.
And again, it grates because we don’t get these when Morrison is assaulted at corners
Morrison does get a raw deal at set pieces-Agreed. Maybe he should've put his arms out and used them in a way that stopped Salah from turning, i don't think he was being that clever by wrapping himself around Salah with the ref so close. I sort of get why he did it as Salah can turn very quickly. Doesn't really matter though, i don't think we would have got back into the game.
Salah realised he wasn't going anywhere and threw himself to the ground, unfortunately the ref bought it
I thought it was a pen at the time and it probably was. So I'll park that.
In the balance of fairness, Robertson's pull back on Morrison in the 48th minute is therefore 100% a penalty. With the score at 0-0, it was a pivotal error by the officials not to give penalty.
It's definitely a pen, anyone saying otherwise has bought into this nonsense corrupt ref nonsense. Morrison's shit attempt of a header along with his embarrassing WWE match with Salah is the reason we lost the game. If we stay up big money is needed to reinforce the defence
What annoys me most is at nearly every attacking set piece Morrison gets pretty much the same treatment yet never gets a pen.
I think it’s a nailed on pen, he’s wrapped his arms right round him for a good 5 seconds. What is he even thinking doing that.
People say Salah went down easy but if you don’t go down the ref doesn’t give it.
It was a pen.
Morrison didn't need to put his arms all over Salah like that, despite some on this thread trying to argue that he had little choice with a smaller player backing up against him - you don't NEED to put your arms around a player like that!