He’s not pulling him back
. Basically resting his arm on his shoulder.
Agree, the arm on the shoulder wasn’t really slowing Traore’s momentum at that point, but it can’t be ignored and any contact like that is normally punished if the player goes down
Toti was all over Johnson before he eventually went down and that isn’t a pen.
He was, but at the critical moment Johnson decided to blatantly dive, which was clear and was rightly booked for.
There is contact between Traore and Felipe but no challenge is made. It’s a coming together, which Traore helps instigate by slowing down
For me this is the one I disagree with Punts (sorry!). A combination of the hand on the shoulder and nudge in the back/arse is a challenge and with Adama being in front of Felipe with that type of contact it’s highly likely most players would go down.
This ‘trying to instigate’ nonsense is starting to grate with me as it seems like we are only ones at the moment who are getting tarnished with it and costing us penalty opportunities, heard it with Raul at Newcastle, Nunes in the cup at Forest and now with Traore. It’s like we have no right to be in those positions and if we get bundled over it’s our fault.
So in terms of him slowing down, he doesn’t have the right to do that then?… perhaps he was slowing down to set himself for the shot which is equally feasible.
All in all this should have been enough for a penalty to be awarded, whether it’s converted is another matter, but these incidents over the course of the season must also be factored in to our performances and results
Our confidence looks shagged, but what a difference a converted penalty against a ten man Newcastle and again yesterday against Forest would have made to us.
Yes we can all agree this season has been a disaster and bound to get worse before it gets better but these fine margins are game changers and we’ve been on the wrong end of them in many cases
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