Blue Since 76 wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:
There were three City defenders around the man on the ball and Barry was covering the bloke on the other side of the box. It's true that their striker went past Zabba too easily but even so, he wasn't going anywhere with 3 players on him, he just stuck a foot out and the ball went through to a bloke who was offside. You could say Vinny should have tracked the scorer a he was with him originally but he wasn't the danger; he was offside. The danger was Sessegnon shooting or running clean through & we had 3 blokes making sure he couldn't do either. It's a fucking nonsense.
When he started his run he wasn't offside and when the ball was played there wasn't daylight, so Kompany didn't 'know' he was offside. Frankly, it was just terrible defending, just like in the first few minutes, but thankfully it was only Bentdner.
Kompany would have been expecting him to be offside as it was only Gareth Barry, on the other side of the box, who even came close to playing him on. From Kompany's angle he had run behind them, brainlessly Adebayor style, absolutely miles into an offside position, which Barry spotted and stepped forward to make sure he didn't foolishly play him on.
Unfortunately the lino was behind play & in no position to give a decision about anything. That's not good enough.
