ARTICLE: Bundesliga move for Assignon

[Goliath]

Yep, 100% it was.

Hahahaha.

[NewClaret]

Also I've seen Barnes do similar many a time, maybe with less dramatics but he's regularly gone down and then argued with refs whilst staying on the ground. Obviously nobody says anything then. I won't speculate as to why that would be.

This is a fair point. It’s not like Assignon is the first in our team to try and con the ref to giving us a foul, free kick or penalty.

I have a slightly different perspective of this because I was watching on TV and how I remember it was that the challenge happened and the comms were saying it was a penalty, they then replayed it from a few angles, one of which looked like he was tripped, the other seemed to confirm he wasn’t. The commentary team were deliberating over whether VAR was looking at it or not when O’Shea went and picked him up. I was annoyed with him at the time because I thought it gave the ref/VAR an easy out of not checking it properly. Which is what I think Assignon was trying to make sure happened and why he was so annoyed.

Desperate for anything at that point in the game, I’d have preferred O’Shea to leave him there and make sure the check happened.

They didn’t show the replays again and didn’t say whether it had been checked so during the remainder of the match I thought O’Shea was in the wrong. I’m not sure where he was to get a proper view of it. Like you say though, it probably sums up the team spirit in that squad at that point.

After I couldn’t find the angle that looked like Son’s knee had clipped him and everything looked pretty conclusive it wasn’t a pen, so had a bit more sympathy for O’Shea.

Stupid thing to do if he wasn’t clipped though. A good cross and Fofana had a tap in.

[Jakubs Tash]

Would not want Assignon back at my club again. Embarrassing antics and weak defensively. Not the type of player/person to fit in with this current squad/manager.

Same goes for Fofana, who signed on loan the same month. You certainly wouldn’t want to go to war with him by your side…..

[quoonbeatz]

I have a slightly different perspective of this because I was watching on TV and how I remember it was that the challenge happened and the comms were saying it was a penalty, they then replayed it from a few angles, one of which looked like he was tripped, the other seemed to confirm he wasn’t. The commentary team were deliberating over whether VAR was looking at it or not when O’Shea went and picked him up. I was annoyed with him at the time because I thought it gave the ref/VAR an easy out of not checking it properly. Which is what I think Assignon was trying to make sure happened and why he was so annoyed.

Yeah, happy to be corrected if someone has the video, given it’s over a year ago and inconsequential but the above isn’t what happened.

The defender came across Assignon, if there was contact it was minimal at worst, then kicked his own leg and went down. Irrelevant whether it was a pen or not tbh. He then spent some time remonstrating with the ref and realising he wasn’t getting a pen, suddenly decided to fake an injury. That’s when O’Shea (and everyone else) had had enough and picked him up. Proper embarrassing for Assignon it was and that’s why he got ripped for it.

[taio]

O'Shea did nothing wrong