Tottenham’s head coach Ange Postecoglou has warned any proposal to introduce blue cards and sin-bins will destroy soccer. Plans have been unveiled on Thursday {that a} trial may start quickly the place a blue card could be proven for dissent and skilled fouls the place the offenders could be despatched to the sin-bin for 10 minutes.
Fifa has since clarified the trial will not happen in elite soccer, whereas football’s lawmakers, the International Football Association Board, will not publish plans for the sin-bin trial till subsequent month. However, Postecoglou was unequivocal in his perception it will be a flawed transfer. “One team being down to 10 men for 10 minutes, you know what it’s going to do to our game? It’s going to destroy it, mate,” Postecoglou stated.
“You’re going to have one team just sitting there trying to waste time for 10 minutes waiting for a guy to come on. Every other sport is trying to declutter. All we’re trying to do is go the other way for some bizarre reason.”
Postecoglou talked at size in regards to the legal guidelines of the sport earlier than Saturday’s go to of Brighton. The Spurs supervisor defended his goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, who conceded from one other nook throughout final weekend’s 2-2 draw at Everton. Vicario did not take care of Dwight McNeil’s supply into his six-yard space whereas below stress from Jack Harrison, which was additionally the case within the 1-0 loss to Manchester City final month.
Rúben Dias crowded round Vicario on that event from a Kevin De Bruyne nook and the Tottenham goalkeeper’s flap resulted in Nathan Aké scoring. Spurs have written to Professional Game Match Officials Limited this week to get clarification over why each targets haven’t fallen below the bracket of encroachment.
“We have sent some stuff to get some clarification,” Postecoglou stated. “I’m going to get called out for this, but there was a thing that was quite evident in the game that the goalkeeper was a protected species. I don’t think that’s just me making that up. The reason people used to say that was that if you really impeded a goalkeeper in any way in the six-yard box, you are going to get a foul. I knew that as a player, I knew that as a manager.
“I think there’s been a shift there where now to me, it’s obstruction. If you’re standing in front of a goalkeeper stopping him before a ball has even arrived, in layman’s terms that’s obstruction. With the goalkeepers, what’s that going to do now? Well, it’s pretty much opened it up that you can surround the goalkeeper and crowd him and put balls on top of him and just wait for the scramble to finish and see what happens.
“I was really proud of Vic the other day. I think they had nine corners after we conceded and I think he dealt with just about every other one by coming out and actually having a crack at it. I can’t praise him highly enough over the way he handled it. And the whole thing where people say: ‘you’ve got to be stronger’, well, what does that mean? If he pushes or does anything to a player, with VAR, you’ve got no chance. You’re going to get a penalty against you.”
Tottenham have their captain Son Heung-min again for the go to of Brighton and Postecoglou will hope his presence can increase their unlikely title bid. Opta Analyst this week claimed Spurs have a 0.1 per cent likelihood of profitable the Premier League this season. “What did it say, 0.1 per cent? So we [have] got a chance then. Let’s go for it. No problems, no issues with that. We’ve got a chance,” Postecoglou stated.
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