Regarding our performance. I was delighted with many aspects - what a way to return from an enforced 2-week absence!!All I'd say is that if we are planning to attack on the break, we need to be more clinical with the few chances we get.Apart from that, let's move on and rip the Jawdies a new one.
My immediate reaction to the first goal was that Mings had screwed up by dilly-dallying on the ball. The offside really only dawned in the replay, and then the interpretation of the rules is all: when Mings chests the ball, have we moved into a new phase of the game, thereby legitimising Rodri's involvement in what took place? That's the issue in a nutshell, for me.
I think we all know that, had this been Watkins coming back from an offside position, tackling Stones, then laying it off for Grealish to score, it would have been chalked off instantly.
I'm still raging, my breakfast hasn't calmed me down at all. I need a bloody walk.
Quote from: SamTheMouse on January 21, 2021, 10:07:40 AMI think we all know that, had this been Watkins coming back from an offside position, tackling Stones, then laying it off for Grealish to score, it would have been chalked off instantly.Almost certainly.
Rodri gains an advantage from an offside position. Fact.Any other "ifs, buts and maybes" don't come into it. Does Rodri gain an advantage from an offside position?Yes.Then he's offside.