Replay of the pen Brighton fans wanted

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1. If you can pause the vid right at the start his face looking up at Gvardiol is killing me 😭

2. Seems like he pushes the ball left but continue a right to clatter into Gvardiol and draw contact, which is most likely why the penalty wasn’t given due to it being borderline and the on-field decision stands.

3. Yeh this is a pen for me.

4. Looks a pretty obvious pen

5. Definitely a pen.

6. if the roles were reversed and that was a Brighton defender on one of ours, yes, pen

7. I’d say it’s a pen for sure. Gvardiol is trying to get between the ball and the player but it’s just clumsy. I’m sure there’s some silly reason why this doesn’t fall under the “clear and obvious” category.

   No excuse for the shitty refereeing but at least it happened at 4-0 and not in a close game. In a close game this would suck, even with city benefitting from the call I’m gutted for Brighton fans

8. 100% a pen. Ref has been shockingly biased, which I’m all for.

9. Feels like a pretty straight forward pen…. Not sure how it wasn’t given but obviously I’m not complaining

10. It’s a pen. Ref is shit

11. Idk how that would not be a pen

12. Good thing it wasn’t given but that’s a clear pen.

13. That’s a pen 9 out of 10. Today was the 10th.

    Fuck deflections and half assed calls against us. Ref was bad yes but I’ll take it.

14. I get there’s contact on the legs but Instead of taking another step he just throws himself, it wasn’t enough contact to make him fall. Dive

15. Yeah it was a pen. If it was our player getting bundled over like that I’d be screaming for a pen.

16. It’s a pen. Glad it wasn’t given, but I’d be mad as a Brighton supporter. I think we would all be mad if it wasnt given to us.

17. Off topic: the black kit looks so good

18. This one is a pen. Rodri one wasnt

19. Yeah, I’d want that pen too…

20. Pen

21. Stonewall, var is now officially useless, would a clear and obvious mistake be one where a player murders another player (in the box ofc) and the ref misses it?

22. He’s not even trying to play the ball. Just looking for a foul.

23. It’s a pen

24. It’s absolutely a penalty.

    Would it have changed the result? No chance, but still a penalty.

    Brighton got robbed there. Even if it feels nice to benefit from shit refereeing once in a while.

25. Yeah feel sort of bad for Brighton for this. Not like it would have changed much.

26. ppl are saying pen, but im actually glad refs are starting to not give pens for just anything anymore

    serious tackles, serious goal scoring opportunities, this guy literally looks like he just wanted to fall.

27. How is VAR not even stopping play to let the ref look at that though

28. It was a pen, but also 4-0 🤷‍♂️

29. Josko objectively got zero on ball and tripped him up lol I just want matches called fairly on both sides but apparently it’s asking for too much

30. Look like the Brighton player diving to me

31. Support City ofc but its a clear pen. Shouldve given to them so it would not stain our victory

32. He was holding up his progress before the contact no pen for me

33. Nah this is a pen, we got away with that. Rivals will continue to go with conspiracies against us but I just think PL refs are shit these days.

34. Should have been a pen

35. It looked like Pedro was leaning into Josko, Josko wasn’t going for the ball and if Pedro didn’t lean right into him then it would’ve been a pen 100% But with him leaning into Josko and causing the contact, no a pen imho, would’ve been extremely soft and a harsh one. Can’t be giving pens for everything in the box.

36. it looks like he sees gvardiol coming and sticks his legs out backwards in the first angle

37. It’s soft but it’d be a penalty. We’ve seen ones like this given this season