ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Jan 23, 2022 11:52 pm wrote:Am I the only one who actually thinks our pen was a pen? The way some pundits have been going on you’d swear it was the worst decision in the history of the game or something.
Some of them seem to be pointing to the fact that Jota didn’t have the ball under control, what the hell has that got to do with anything? You don’t need to be in possession of the ball to be fouled, you can be fouled off the ball.
The one doubt I had about it was that Jota seemed to take a little step towards the keeper just before they came together but when the camera panned back to show a wider view of the incident their keeper did far more to initiate the incident than Diogo did.
Remember when Calvert-Lewin won a pen against us when he tripped over a prone Trent who way laying on the floor even though the ball was miles away? If that was a pen then Jota’s was deffo a pen.
I don’t get the hysteria either, it was not a 100% penalty nor was it a 100% non penalty. Keeper definitely came out along way, there was definite contact that impeded the player, Jota definitely lost control with a bad touch and it is debatable whether he would have reached the ball before it went out of play. Basically it was a tight decision and not worthy of the hysteria. If given there would have been complaints and if not given we would have said “what can we do to win a penalty”. I’ve seen a lot worse decisions than that penalty.