The 50:50 decisions in games are what cause problems when it goes down to VAR and that is what happened on Saturday.
Curtis Jones' challenge that got him sent off, if you slow it down it looks terrible but if you look at the bigger picture, he's got the ball which has then acted like a trampoline making his foot bounce up. There is no intent to hurt the player and if there is an ex-professional player on VAR he'd say it looks nasty but there is no intent.
Curtis is so unlucky - it is not a red card. It is nothing like Harry Kane's on Robertson that went unpunished the other year.
I'm not having the PGMOL statement - they missed an easy Liverpool solution
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Jota's I am torn. His first yellow is not even foul and it is definitely not worth a booking. I don't even know if he touched him so common sense should prevail. But the second one I can't argue, even if the ref couldn't wait to get his cards out. Ultimately when you put it all together with the major decisions, the referees have had a nightmare.
But that doesn't mean I am worried. The worst thing that can come out of it is Matip. He had an excellent game, superb, he'd be absolutely devastated conceding that goal but he shouldn't be as Liverpool defended brilliantly for a long time.
Sometimes when we go down to nine or 10 men it makes we wonder why can't we get clean sheets with 11 men? That is the one question I think the most - why can't we defend like that every week? It was heroic.
If we're going to win the league, which is possible - I don't think we will as Manchester City are too strong - we're going to need to defend proper. The three times I've seen us do that
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