PL: Arsenal v Tottenham | Sunday, March 14 | KO: 16:30 UTC | Sky Sports

[AberGooner]

Anywhere else.on the pitch it's a foul and a yellow

Yeah there shouldn't be any difference if it's in the box or not on a play like that. OK Laca got the shot off but he was going to get taken out either way.

 

[AberGooner]

Nice.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Anywhere else.on the pitch it's a foul and a yellow

Look how high his left foot ffs that dumb challenge someone like old friend mustafi would make

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Jermaine Jenas is quite a tool to be honest. Not much of a player and really an awful pundit...

I don't get why media love having these average Sp**s players as pundits.

 

[Riou]

I don't get why media love having these average Sp**s players as pundits.

Price, I imagine...Thierry isn't the best pundit, but to get him would cost a small fortune due to his name...while someone like Michael Dawson, he's probably paying Sky to have him on, tbh.

 

[Tosker]

extraordinary the pull the NLD has on our ex-players

 

[boxerumble]

Super proud of Arsenal today. I was of course a little ***** pre-match, but hard not to be given how we typically fare against a Mourinho side. Glad Llama got a red and I thought nearly everyone had a smashing game. Keep the wins going and finish the season in EL spots and it's a win all things considered.

 

[Melquiades]

Watched analysis with Owen, Hoddle and Wrighty and all 3 said it wasn't a pen. They're all trying to say because Laca had already shot it shouldn't count but Sanchez still followed through him. I don't see why there's even a big discussion.

I'm thinking Wrighty is trying to appear unbiased but he also queried the 2nd Lamela yellow. Lamela was very lucky to be uncarded before the first booking and it could be argued the elbow should have been a straight red.

Anywhere else.on the pitch it's a foul and a yellow

The takes on this are absolutely bizarre.

If ESR has the ball in midfield and makes a crap pass for a turnover and then Harry Kane flies in way late with a high 2-footed challenge and breaks ESR’s leg, it isn’t somehow not a foul and a red card because the ball was gone on a poor pass.

Absolutely no different if Lacazette is taking a shot and a split second after he mis-hits it is run through by a very high boot as seen above. It’s literally as cut-and-dried a penalty as you’ll ever see but for some reason pundits are inventing rules that don’t exist and pretending that because the ball had been hit a split-second earlier this somehow isn’t a foul in the box.

 

[Riou]

@American_Gooner

 

[Riou]

...my beautiful boys!

Need to get these two on as pundits for our games, especially Lauren...get the feeling Ralph would just start physcially attacking the likes of Jenas, after he has had enough of his ****

 

[Bagels]

Easy penalty, really surprised its caused any sort of fuss at all... and Lamela seemed absolutely determined to get sent off at some point

Bar the last 10 minutes - which was disastrous - we were fantastic, amazing from Arteta and the all the players. I do feel we need to be more clinical in general though, seems too often we let quality chances go begging.

 

[boonthegoon]

We receive so many **** calls which don't even get discussed in post match analysis mostly but this pen is? The media bias and hate is real.

The Kane push on Gabriel was not even present in the motd highlights ffs

 

[Devy]

Respect to Arteta. Saw Lamela got sent off and he immediately introduced Willian to make it 10 vs 10.

 

[CaseUteinberger]

We receive so many **** calls which don't even get discussed in post match analysis mostly but this pen is? The media bias and hate is real.

The Kane push on Gabriel was not even present in the motd highlights ffs

How the hell Kane isn't carded for that tackle in the back of Gabriel is beyond the pale. How he keeps on getting away with just being a dirty player game in and game out. If that was an Arenal player it would have been at least a yellow and MOTD would discuss if it should have been a red card and how undisciplined Arsenal players are! ****ing wankers the lot!

 

[gunner4lyfe]

Anywhere else.on the pitch it's a foul and a yellow

Saw it again and here's why I think he got the pen. He could have recovered and got the ball as it hasn't gone very far. If it had gone over or wide he wouldn't have gotten it

 

[mirrorstare]

It wasn't really a tackle attempt going that high, just a desperate attempt to block the ball that Laca mishits.

The problem is that the contact is really made because Laca swings his leg, not because Sanchez is aiming there. At that point there's nothing Sanchez could do to avoid contact, the inertia of Lacazette's failed shot simply means he'll end up clashing his foot with Sanchez.

In a more normal scenario, say, running a full speed and shooting with the defender sliding to try and block the ball and contact made in the end, this wouldn't be a penalty at all. It was given because the angle looks pretty savage, as that still image shows.

 

[gunner4lyfe]

It wasn't really a tackle attempt going that high, just a desperate attempt to block the ball that Laca mishits.

The problem is that the contact is really made because Laca swings his leg, not because Sanchez is aiming there. At that point there's nothing Sanchez could do to avoid contact, the inertia of Lacazette's failed shot simply means he'll end up clashing his foot with Sanchez.

In a more normal scenario, say, running a full speed and shooting with the defender sliding to try and block the ball and contact made in the end, this wouldn't be a penalty at all. It was given because the angle looks pretty savage, as that still image shows.

I disagree. Even if Laca doesn't swing he would have still been taken out

 

[Penn_]

I don’t get why there’s such a debate on the penalty, if that happens anywhere else on the pitch everyone accepts it’s a blatant late foul.

Seen penalties given where the striker has clearly overrun the ball but gets the tinniest clip by the keeper and is never debated.

Whole thing is just weird. Jamie Redknapp, a millionaire pundit. “It’s late, reckless and he clatters into Lacazette, but I don’t think it’s a penalty.”

 

[Jae]

I don’t get why there’s such a debate on the penalty, if that happens anywhere else on the pitch everyone accepts it’s a blatant late foul.

Because we won against our biggest rivals in an NLD and Arteta Out bum squad clearly aren't happy about it. Would rather see us lose if it meant we get rid of him quicker.

 

[DanDare]

Feel like I've slipped into some weird universe. Can't believe how so many pundits view it as not a penalty. Not seen one elucidate why it isn't though mind...