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Originally Posted by Addick
To be fair to Szczza, it's rather difficult to change the momentum of your legs once you commit to going in one direction. If it was his hands, then I could see him removing them from the cheating diving tosser's path. However, it was his foot and it would have been almost impossible to move that out of the way after reading and committing to the play.
Was it an unnecessary sending off as the opposing team had the chance to replace a clear goal scoring opportunity that was denied, yes.
Was it an application of the rules both teams knew going into the match, yes again.
It sucks but those are the rules and one can only hope that FIFA and UEFA adopt retrospective punishment via post-match video reviews. Szczza deserves his two match ban and a one or two match extension based on video evidence of his gesture, but Robben should also miss the next round.
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I completely agree with you.
Whats this about a gesture though? First I've heard of it. All of this 'gesture' nonsense is getting ridiculous.
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