Ludicrous sequence of events (blatant foul followed by a player going down very easily) but he still lacks composure. It was understandable back in 2010 when Ribery stitched him up when he was still very young but over 4 years later it is a problem.
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Royal screwed over by the ref. clear barge on him and gets nothing, Vardy falls over and gets a pen. He had another good game today. Defended a lot better as the game went on, especially up against lei tall striker. Very important 90mins under his belt.
Not to sure if he was instructed to do it or not but all the times he made a bit of a run forward today, drew to a sudden halt and passed the ball behind him to a midfielder was annoying enough.
This has to be a joke?Had a good game, one of our better players. Got screwed over by the ref. Let's not be too hard on him.
Quite a good performance all things considered.
When will Rafael grow up? Actually when will the defense ever grow up? Id say get 3-4 defenders and lets get rid of these inconsistent, overrated and injury prone lot.
He's my favourite player, but he needs to keep calm sometimes. He's not the first player to make mistakes, nor will he be the last, but that was pretty stupid.
Vardy half jumped back into Rafael just to double up the comedy crapness of Clattenberk but a VERY clever calmer player wouldn't have gone anywhere near him (which is harsh, but there we are)
also didn't jump with Ulloa for the 1st goal
also didn't jump with Ulloa for the 1st goal
He was the only defender who gets away with some pride after today.
He's been a friggin United defender for years. He should know that he can't retaliate! His mistakes are as shocking as his injury prone record. We need defenders who are mature and consistently good and not this shit
Don't even blame him for a second for the 'penalty'. 100% Clattenburg's fault.
How'd he relaliate?! He gets fouled by Vardy, gets back up and then Vardy dives for the pen?
Idiotic post.
Lets stop being naive he pushed him, not as hard as the non league level player did before but he did pushed him.
Good player but I wish he cut out his moments of idiocy. It was a clear foul by Vardy so I guess he was unlucky but still.
he was silly to retaliate. but even then it was not a penalty.
shocking decision for both. the orginal shove by Vardy was as bad a foul in that situation as I have seen.
how an official can change a game.
shocking decision for both. the orginal shove by Vardy was as bad a foul in that situation as I have seen.
how an official can change a game.
I don't blame Rafael at all for the penalty. He was firstly so clearly fouled, and then he did nothing other than race back to defend, and without contact Vardy went flying. Hard to blame the kid.
It wasn't a penalty offense but someone with his experience should know better.
This. Rafael was fine today. That decision was dreadful.
He was awful
Got screwed over by the ref, but could have avoided it.
Blackett was there blocking the goal, and he didn't need to run towards the guy at the initial speed he did. Was wound up about being fouled.
You wouldn't see Zabaleta do that.
Blackett was there blocking the goal, and he didn't need to run towards the guy at the initial speed he did. Was wound up about being fouled.
You wouldn't see Zabaleta do that.
Same problem with him as usual, doesn't get something he should get, loses his shit. I was screaming after he was fouled there not to touch this cnut because he'd use it and boom, seconds later we're penalty behind. He was basically robbed by Clattenburg there but it's the same kind of story you could tell against that Munich match in 2010 or 11 it was.
I disagree but if that is deemed a push then every game will have stupid pens.
Not a penalty but he still wasn't good enough.
When we say retaliate, are we talking about running back towards a forward bearing down on our goal, who throws himself to the ground?
Don't blame him tbh, think he did well not to lose his cool. Could have done more for their first though hard to say if the players were caught out thinking it'd gone out. But the pen was an absolute joke by the ref and some of the other decisions against him were harsh too.
It seems so.
Vardy shoved his body into Rafael and went down. Vardy initiated the contact. Not today, not ever, is that a penalty.
Where else is he supposed to run? Vardy was throwing himself in front of him.
It was no penalty, stop blaiming him. He, di Maria, Falcao, Blind, Herrera are the only ones who had a decent to good game.
It was evident that if he pushed the non league player he would get the red card. Clattenburg was waiting for any possible excuse to get this crap back in game. Rafael needs to grow up. He needs to become more consistent and he needs to avoid getting injured so much. If he cant then its time for us to get someone better
agree. Rafael needs to grow up.
Yes. People would be a lot happier if he just stayed on the ground or walked back into the area.
Can't blame him for that clusterfeck of a call. Seems another case of a players past reputation determining the outcome.
Sorry what the feck? What wasnt mature about his performance today!?
Amazing that he's getting blamed for a shocking piece of refereeing.
I agree with that, totally.
Edited to say, seems our fans are pretty much doing the same.
Watch the gif. He literally does nothing to Vardy, Vardy shoves into him (in the box) and theatrically falls to the floor. There's nothing Raf could do.
Yep. Rafael's literally done NOTHING wrong there
.Vardy's playing for that pen all day long. The infuriating part is hell get away Scott free.
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