This season we recently had the burnley game, all of our close opponents except chelsea had played and dropped points, we were at home and only managed the win due to
an offside penalty decision, basically we bottled it, but got away with it through a lot of luck.
Not exact matches
We need video refereeing, or at least a second official to decide on major
decisions like red cards /
penalties / goals (
offside).
That is not the only bad luck we have had by any means, with
offside decisions,
penalties for and against and more.
Good article states many reasonable conclusions and facts about the season and how amongst all the turmoil we have a manger who does well but one thing in purchases over the last five years we are 6th in the epl were at 366m tottenham in 5th with 397m and he made a mistake there we are 6thin money spent on players but we have had the sanchez saga and new players adjusting to epl and the team and injuries and it definitely hasnt been our year in ref
decisions which have played a factor in games though we still should have won aside from ref but watford and westbrom many other games are included at city free
offside goal weak
penalty and at spurs we were robbed of going one nil up auba onside bu honestly the officiating across the whole league this year has been an embarrassment to professional officials of all sports its been bad game after game they need to get some rigorous training this offseason for improvement
Despite the win, you'd be hard - pressed to say Utd deserved to progress, with a contentious
offside and a contentious
penalty decision the two main post-match talking points.
I do feel we were unlucky to lose to a
penalty and an
offside goal, although the
penalty decision for me was correct, although I don't feel we needed Monreal to take Sterling down as he didn't appear to have great control over the ball at the time.
The
penalty was not the only
decision which angered Wenger however, with the Citizens closing the game out at 3 - 1 thanks to a goal which clearly looked
offside, and replays proved there was in fact two players behind the last defender at the time the ball was played, including the receiver.
Sean Dyche says Arsenal should not have been given a last - gasp
penalty because Laurent Koscielny was
offside; the
decision cost Burnley a valuable point
The referee screwed up with the
penalty decision and they amended that by flagging
offside for Bayern's second goal.
Chances falling to wrong players and not getting the right
decisions i.e.
Penalty and
offside goal.
Arsene Wenger: «I would say overall the referee made the
decision today, with the soft
penalty and the
offside goal.
Yes, we scored three, and yes, we could have scored more were it not for some quite appalling
offside decisions (and a denied
penalty), but ultimately we went up to Manchester and presented them with a string of freebies that you can't recover from.
«In real time this was a difficult series of
decisions, which the match officials judged correctly in recognising that Kane was not
offside, as Lovren had deliberately played the ball, and he was fouled for the award of the
penalty kick.