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He had plenty of chances tonight...and fluffed his lines.
He didn't get the service.Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
The referee didn't protect him.
He's young, he'll improve.
He had an off day.
Actually, he's garbage, though [on this board] it's just you and me who think that. Funny enough, everyone at the game tonight around me, also think he's completely useless.
this could've just been posted in the match day thread..
It could have been lost in the match thread. I made a separate post to highlight our problem...we haven't a good enough striker in the squad.
As an aside, KM scores a hat trick last night.
he did well for the goal that was disallowed, really good centre forward play.
And we haven't had one for many many years.
The referee blew the whistle just as we crossed the ball, it wasn't a disallowed goal.
He blew the whistle after Salech had taken his shot, it's semantics as to whether it was a disallowed goal or not.
My lad thought something Salech may have done something wrong because he, and other players, didn't surround the ref after but as the whistle had gone before the ball crossed the line there wouldn't have been any point. As far as I can make out it was good centre forward play to get ahead of the defender and an accurate shot after. I'm not sure what 'KM' or any other forward could've done better.
The biggest problem with Salech at the moment is he seemingly wants to engage in a physical battle with the opposition at every opportunity and he commits a lot of fouls while doing so - he's frequently wrestling with opponents and pulling their shirts. He's also grizzling to referees on a regular basis, often from very early on in games.
I like his aggression and commitment, but he does seem to take things too far on occasions. He's not particularly subtle and isn't doing himself any favours.
Just reading Paul's blog. In it he said:
"City, especially Yousef Salech, will feel that referee Jacob Miles’ decision to disallow his first half goal changed the game. Certainly, it was the sort of decision Salech just doesn’t get given in his favour in this division and I thought it was a poor call by the ref to rule that our centre forward had committed a foul.
"However, I’m not too sympathetic towards our striker this time because he’d already had two headed chances that he could have done better with and there were a couple more opportunities he got wrong in a second half where, at times, it looked like he was more concerned with carrying on a running battle with Burton defenders or arguing the toss with the officials."
Paul's nailed it there I reckon, and last night wasn't an isolated situation by any means.
https://x.com/ccfcinsiderr/status/19...Qe5-yx9CQ&s=08
that's good centre forward play in my books
Can’t see a lot wrong with that.
Chambers, Turnbull and now Salech. Who's next player to be drawn out of the CCMB Scapegoat Bingo?
There is nothing wrong with it, it’s good centre forward play
He initially has two hands on the defender - that's a no-no nowadays whatever we may think. The referee blew pretty much as the cross was delivered.
Ashford is up next it seems
You're on fire at the minute, fair play.
Ashford, as Blue Army says. I don't think he's been given his own thread yet but it's coming. Some guys behind me last night were screaming at him that he was rubbish, I was thinking they had to be posters on here.
Oh come on. Forget 9 times out of 10, thats not given 99 times out of 100. Terrible decision.
The only excuse I can see for the referee giving the foul is that he only saw Salech "fouling" the defender rather than seeing the entire passage of play where the defender was grabbing Salech first. Not sure I agree that Salech is looking for the physical battle with the defenders this season, it seems it's the other way round, and they are looking to grab/ assault him from the get-go. If we put in more crosses to him, surely the law of averages would mean more of his attempts would go unpunished for perceived fouls and he'd score more?
90 out of a 100
I was referring to the headed efforts...if KM had had those crosses, he would've put them in.
Salech is a 4th Division striker at best.
Ifs,ifs,ifs. If Ken Dodds dads dog had whiskers and claws hed be a cat.
Easy to forget he’s a young lad too with lots to learn.
He’s younger than Isaak Davies for example, and only a few months older than Rubin.
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