I mean, I’m not saying that there was any corruption or explicit instruction to give them a penalty, but even the minor thought that a certain club’s state-owners might pay me/hire me more often can be incredibly enticing.
I mean, I’m not saying that there was any corruption or explicit instruction to give them a penalty, but even the minor thought that a certain club’s state-owners might pay me/hire me more often can be incredibly enticing.
A goal disrupts the game and rhythm. When the opponent gets one of the softest penalty calls at your home ground in a derby right before half time when the score is 0-0. United played okay up until that goal. After that, the manager goes in at half time and tells them that they can’t sit back and wait for a mistake. Every player starts presides higher and that’s when the defense gets isolated, because the midfielders won’t track back and because they are tired. The manager made poor substitutions that killed the game. In the second half, the fullbacks were both isolated in 2V1s and that’s how they scored the two goals. After that, Man City the best possession side in the world just had to keep the ball. Combine that with our poor pressung and emotional outbursts from players we were destroyed.