Mane cheating the ref and the VAR?? Discuss!!!
Having seen it again, I decided he was impeded but he also dived. Pen and yc for Mane anyone?I thought I'd be giving that pen in real time. However he wasn't at speed and his reaction just didn't look natural. Seeing the replay suggests to me that he was caught but it didn't impede him and he decided to kick his leg out to make it look like he was tripped. One of those ones that has contact but no foul. I'd have yc for simulation. But perhaps that's why I'm not on the PL. That plus I can't really run.
One excludes the other.........Having seen it again, I decided he was impeded but he also dived. Pen and yc for Mane anyone?
Having seen it again, I decided he was impeded but he also dived. Pen and yc for Mane anyone?
I thought fair enough it is a foul, but I don't think it was enough for him to go down. I'm conflicted on this one. What I've seen on debates elsewhere seems to be divided on this as well - the only thing everyone seems to agree on is VAR isn't doing a good job(!)
I suggest it doesn't. He could have been fouled and then got up and punched him in retaliation. A pen and a rc. Mane was fouled but also dived. Foul came first.One excludes the other.........
Do you think Mane dived?I would wish any referee going down that route the very best of luck. It's a penalty lads but he dived so he's having a yellow card, you just aren't going to get away with that.
For me it was a clumsy tackle that shouldn't have been made and the penalty was correct. Does Mane make the most of it? Yes, undoubtedly, but that doesn't mean it isn't a penalty.
Yes but a 'dive' or simulation in LOTG is only punished if it is to deceive a referee to give a decision he would not have always give. For me there was a foul there so he did not 'simulate the foul' per se.Do you think Mane dived?
Do you think Mane dived?
Is your definition of a dive or simulation, an FA definition? I would say that the trip and the dive were two separate instances, albeit they were close together. IMHO, Mane didn't go down because of the trip (which can be suggested as he took a balanced step with his other foot) - he went down because he chose to dive.No, I think he exaggerated, which is significantly different. A dive, or simulation, is where the player goes down without there being any contact or initiates the contact themselves, that clearly didn't happen here and Mane was tripped.
Having seen it again, I decided he was impeded but he also dived. Pen and yc for Mane anyone?