nice ending to that post.
Even funnier that it's the only thing wrong in that post!
Sometimes truth is harsh. No need to make it any less
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Even funnier that it's the only thing wrong in that post!
Sometimes truth is harsh. No need to make it any less
The difference is, Mourinho demands his CBs to be tactically disciplined. And Rojo is anything but that. In my 20+ years of watching United, I've not seen a specialist defender so woefully out of position so often. Rojo plays like a naive, all-action meathead that puts in maximum effort but flatters to deceive. Shite player for a top club. Sell.
Got sent off for this
Can't really tell if that's worth a red, but it looks like the sort of challenge Rojo would put in. His tackling style could do with a little bit of refining, he always manages to make challenges look worse then they actually are. Still, pretty feckin' harsh on the bloke...
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Can't really tell if that's worth a red, but it looks like the sort of challenge Rojo would put in. His tackling style could do with a little bit of refining, he always manages to make challenges look worse then they actually are. Still, pretty feckin' harsh on the bloke...
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Looked harsh, should probably be a yellow. The ref was probably trying to even things up with Chile having already had a player sent off. Having said that though his foot was high and if he had have connected with vidal then would defo be a red. Harsh but can understand why it was red.
Terrible player. Hope he's kicked out sharpish.
No it's not, but his tackling style just makes it look worse then it actually is.
I do think the way he tackles in general is pretty poor ... pretty sure I've seen him go in two feet on more then one occassion (not high, just with two feet) which to me is always an indicator that a player might not have great technique in the tackle.
Well i agree with you. He can't tackle for shit, but that foul was a yellow card worthy and nothing more.
He just seems to be prone to switching off and letting players move away from him but his tackling is wild at times, he just flies in recklessly. His compatriot Heinze was a very aggressive tackler in his time at OT, but he did it properly for the most part, letting his man know he was there, as opposed to Rojo who just dives in. Rojo just seems to be afflicted by the red mist at times, he lets it cloud his judgement in all aspects of his game, you often see him getting riled up by opponents who probably know exactly what they are doing, goading him into an impetuous challenge or lack of concentration on the game.
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I don't know if that's still the case but tackles from behind that a player can't see coming used to be red cards all the time.
That being said it actually looks like he isn't even fully hitting Vidal and he goes down way before there is even any contact.
That being said it actually looks like he isn't even fully hitting Vidal and he goes down way before there is even any contact.
That is never a red card. It looks worse, but he actually barely touches him. There was absolutely no malice in the tackle, yellow would have been the right choice.
I'm not a massive fan of him but that was never a red card
Red card aside, how did he play for Argentina during the Copa? I didn't catch a single game.
No, that's how fans and the odd pundit interpreted it but it was never a law. It's never been an automatic foul let alone a red.
A tackle has always been a tackle = get the ball and it's not a foul.
Giggs used to tackle people from behind all the time. The super fluid slide, wrap his leg, win the ball and stand up in one motion thing.
There's such a thing as 'tackling with excessive force' where you can technically get the ball first, but only because you've clearly been willing to hit the player as a side effect. That's normally blown up for or card worthy.
Is it just me or is there no contact there? He also gets the ball. Vidal's leg buckling under him is hardly Rojo's fault.
You are probably right but I somehow remember that a few years back at least in the Bundesliga tackles from behind were a hot topic and always got called as a foul if you only somehow touched the opposition player. The argument was that tackles from behind carry an increased injury risk and are therefor to be punished as dangerous play and I can remember quite a few situation where a foul not hard or anything special but from behind was punished with a straight red card. Haven't seen that in a while though.
And then there is this:
Vidal indeed seems to go down before there is any contact at all and in the end there doesn't seem to be any and Rojo gets the ball as well, pretty weird to give a red for this. Maybe the ref felt the need to balance out the game again. I hate decisions like that when refs try to correct earlier bad, in their eyes, decisions with another bad decision. That just makes anything worse. You can't correct a precieved mistake through making an intentional wrong decision. Or maybe he is just shit and gave in to the pressure of the players surrounding him.
How in the name of God is that a red card? He barely touches Vidal at all. In fact it's not even a yellow, more or less a perfect tackle despite it being from behind.
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