Chelsea - v - Leeds United *** Matchday Thread***

[Monaco_Totty]

As if the injury situation isn't concern enough, the next issue will be suspensions. We seem to be accumulating a hell of a lot of yellow cards at present. 🤐

Obviously decisions 'sway the way' of the attacking team, for sure in season, Oz.
https://www.thefa.com/football-rules...and-misconduct

Reckless challenges by Leeds yesterday 'interpreted' I'd assume looking at rules book.
Laughable rule, as keepers can get booked for 'trickery' tactics before penalty is taken this season rules now state.

Trickery/Cheating tactics ?
Surely that's what forwards are getting away with nowadays far to often - Trickery/Cheating !

Llorente, Raphinha, Roberts, Rodrigo & Shackleton all need to get through the next 3 matches without picking up a booking or they will face a one-match ban.

Those matches will be against Man City away, then Arsenal at ER before facing Liverpool at Anfield.

Any player who gets 5 Yellow cards before the end of the 19th match of the season is banned for one-match, so our cut-off is the end of the match away to Liverpool on Boxing Day.

[ozleeds]

Well to be honest yes, I wasn't having a go at him/her but you can't base an opinion from highlights extended or not, highlights are what 5 to 10 minutes, extended are what another 10 maybe 15 minutes, at most you are still missing an hour of the game, come on are you serious?

With you on this mate.
Highlights are just the best moments in the game and sometimes can make a not-so-good game look better than it was. The biggest asset you don't get from them is watching players positioning transitioning so forth. Most of the time people just watch players with the ball and are not aware of what goes around them which highlights tend to do.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Yeah but the only way is to watch games live to do that and even then you see different things depending on your vantage point.

If someone features a lot in the highlights you can still get an idea if not the full picture.

Obviously the more sources you consider the fuller the picture but geez does that mean you shouldn’t proffer and view unless you have watched the game live or the full 90 mins?