TheReligion
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As I said, to me it looked like he thinks he's going to get clattered and you can see his body do a little self-preservation move seconds before Bowen skips over him. I'm not trying to justify anything. I said it wasn't a foul but I was responding to a post saying Mendy was careless because he dived at Bowen's feet. That's where the ball was and got the there first, so nothing careless about what Mendy did apart from the way he handled the ball. I think if he doesn't hesitate, which he actually does twice in that whole sequence, he gets to the ball calmly way before Bowen even thinks about skipping over him.
That’s fair enough.
Mendy is a play actor though. He actually tried the same thing for West Ham’s first goal from memory.