I was pleased with our desire and spirit to fight our way back into the game ,. can't see enough of the angle to see if it warranted a red or not.....Ref was poor , most of all his positional play was poor often he had or let players crowd him .
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Its was definately a red card even though he won the ball, but it was the speed and follow through that made it serious foul play.
"A tackle or challenge using excessive force that endangers an opponent's safety"Comment
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No problem......
Maybe slowed down with VAR angles Id have another view. But I can see why the Ref gave it, because at first look it appeared the ball ran away to create that 50/50 following by what looked like an a uncontrolled lunge at the ball. The way the player went down probably swayed the decision towards the red.
It wasn't as clear cut as studs up, coming down from height and the knee movement creating a stabbing motion of the leg. It could easily have been a yellow that early on the game.
The player made the most of that contact for sure.Comment
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Sliding/lunging in with studs up about a foot off the ground is a red even BEFORE he makes contact with ball/man/thin air. "Winning" or touching the ball is specifically mentioned as irrelevant in the laws. - high velocity lunge = red card. Additionally, wiping someone out with a trailing leg IS a foul and will move into "endangering an opponent" territory because of the distance travelled to launch the tackle, the excessive force and sliding in without full control.
Put it this way...there is NO way on earth the club will appeal it - it would 99.9% get rejected as "frivolous" and result in an extra game being added to the ban.
It was a dumb idiotic challenge that arose from his own poor control and touch that let the ball get away from him. You can normally see the incoming foul before it happens when players wildly chase or overreach for their own heavy touches and Cirkin was no different here. In fairness to the ref, he gave himself a bit of time to think - he didn't just whip the card out and presumably he went through a mental checklist of factors and ticked off excessive force, out of control and endangering an opponent and sent him off.
Sort of unrelated but I notice Cirkin has been called up by Latvia so won't be getting much rest over next 3 weeks either.Comment
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Didn’t know he was Latvian. Thanks. Nobody could reasonably say it wasn’t a red card. The dynamics of a football tackle are fluid and complex and things can easily look worse than might have been the case, subject to the separate movement of 2 individual forces. The players need to be aware of this unfortunate outcome and play wisely in such situations, especially where, as you mention, that player has just made a mess of controlling the ball.Comment
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