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well, come to think of it, maybe taking off matic is his way of trying to justify his action of not starting him in the 1st place.. arghh... 

 
The substitution seemed alright to me. We needed to score and we had to play as many attackers as we can to do so. If I'm not wrong, I recall seeing Remy warming up when the scoreline was 1-2. Perhaps the player that Jose wanted to sub out at first wasn't Matic?

From Pelle's goal (3rd goal scored by them) highlight below, Matic was badly out of position just before we lost the ball in the middle. He was at the left flank when he should have been at the centre. Maybe Jose got rather pissed off about that and opted to sub him off instead.


 
Zinc said:
The substitution seemed alright to me. We needed to score and we had to play as many attackers as we can to do so. If I'm not wrong, I recall seeing Remy warming up when the scoreline was 1-2. Perhaps the player that Jose wanted to sub out at first wasn't Matic?

From Pelle's goal (3rd goal scored by them) highlight below, Matic was badly out of position just before we lost the ball in the middle. He was at the left flank when he should have been at the centre. Maybe Jose got rather pissed off about that and opted to sub him off instead.

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Sorry, but it was 2:1 with the team chasing the game and pushing forward. Matic had the right to push a bit forward as he had no reason to expect such a poor loss of the ball. We shouldn't have lost the ball in that area, especially with such a poor pass. That goal is on Hazard.

 
Don't have a great deal of sympathy for matic tbh. If he had stood up and be counted, he would never have lost his place in the beginning.

If he is embarrassed by it, good, next time he plays he should have a point to prove.

Our title defence has been embarrassing, matic definitely isn't the only one by any stretch, but he can be a leader and it's going to characters like matic, costa, and Terry that can get us out of this.

 
Jon Stakes said:
Sorry, but it was 2:1 with the team chasing the game and pushing forward. Matic had the right to push a bit forward as he had no reason to expect such a poor loss of the ball. We shouldn't have lost the ball in that area, especially with such a poor pass. That goal is on Hazard.
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Your points are valid. I was just trying to look at it from another perspective on why Jose subbed him off haha.  :smile:

 
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Zinc said:
The substitution seemed alright to me. We needed to score and we had to play as many attackers as we can to do so. If I'm not wrong, I recall seeing Remy warming up when the scoreline was 1-2. Perhaps the player that Jose wanted to sub out at first wasn't Matic?

From Pelle's goal (3rd goal scored by them) highlight below, Matic was badly out of position just before we lost the ball in the middle. He was at the left flank when he should have been at the centre. Maybe Jose got rather pissed off about that and opted to sub him off instead.

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Oscar was supposed to go off, then that Pelle goal took place & Jose was trying to rescue a point from the match. Jose even said as much after the match.

 
Remodez said:
For every good article that site has there's another 10 like these which are just awful. 
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They present stories to tell whatever narrative it is they want to push. 

I generally just skim through the site every few days now. 

 
Well, it's a bit of an overreaction from Matic. Can't blame him entirely though.

It's funny how he swung his elbow and completely missed Andre Andre, yet that guy went down like he got shot in the head.


 
Matic was captain at that moment, he couldn't do that. He left the team with 9 players, bad times for him.

 
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Looked like the guy could have caused some serious damage if Matic had kept his left leg standing. I'm just glad he's ok.

 
Looking at the opposition player, he's tried to stand on Matic's ankle/leg about 3 times after the ball has gone. 

Doesn't excuse the response from Matic because especially after the Ashley Barnes incident he should be smarter to it. 

 
So, where was the sniper hiding? Matic didn't even connect, but something made the other guy go down...

 
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