claretspice wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 5:14 pm
For all it was not a foul and certainly not a yellow card, Assignon was naive and rash for the penalty yesterday. He'd got his body across Mudryk and kept pace with him (some feat). He then put his arm across Mudryk and gave him the excuse to go down. If you put an arm across when you don't need to, you are taking an unnecessary risk and plays to rhe general perception he's just a touch impetuous and ill disciplined right now (as indeed did the first yellow - unnecessary with Mudyrk running into traffic).
Bang on. This is what I mean by the lacking of footballing nouse at times on his defensive displays. Whether that's lack of game time, whether that's just nativity I'm just not sure.
He's been booked at 17 mins for exactly the same thing, he doesn't take that into consideration or adapt his marking. Then later on does all the hard work well against Murdryk until he does the exact same thing again with the hand on shoulder.
Mate, you've been pinged for it once, every Chelsea player will do anything to get you to do it again. ...then he does it again
We defended superbly since that red with the awareness that we couldn't give anything stupid away. But shouldn't have to go down to 10 to realise you can't go gung ho when you are on a yellow.
Taylor epitomy of composure yesterday. Years of experience guiding us out of the sh*t, not just him but JBG, Jay et al