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Leicester are in real trouble and in a relegation battle.
What do they need to do to survive? Stop the self-inflicted errors and control the controllables.
Bobby De Cordova-Reid’s red card, a second in as many games for a Leicester player, was totally unnecessary.
There was no danger in midfield, the challenge was unnecessary and if he’d stayed on his feet, the Foxes would have had 11 men for 90
One step forward, two steps back for Tottenham.
Yet again, as Spurs looked to progress under Thomas Frank, they came crashing down in arguably their worst performance of the season.
Defeats to Arsenal, Bournemouth and Fulham have been poor – chastening at times, especially to the Gunners – but the surrender at the City Ground could be labelled as a further low.
They were second best throughout and did little
Guardiola has also been giving it a lot of thought. He has not been sleeping very well, as he has said, and has not been himself at times when talking to the media.
He has been talking to a lot of people about what is going on as he tries to work out the reasons for City’s demise. Some reasons he knows, others he still doesn’t.
What people perhaps do
Referees’ chief Howard Webb says there has been an 80% reduction in the number of video assistant referee (VAR) errors this season.
It has now been five years since VAR was introduced in the Premier League, but the system and the way it is used continues to attract plenty of debate.
According to the independent Key Match Incidents panel (KMI), there were 31 incorrect uses of VAR during the 2023-24
There were no video assistant referee errors on the final day of the Premier League season, before the vote by clubs to scrap the technology.
The Key Match Incidents panel, which reviews the decisions in the top flight, backed every VAR call last Sunday.
They still ruled there were six incorrect on-field decisions, including Tomas Soucek’s handball goal which was initially missed before VAR intervention in West Ham’s 3-1 defeat