I stood right up beside my telly and played this over again but looking at a different individual each time. It was pure theatre. Faddy turned away celebrating before the goal is scored. The defenders rushed the ref when the ball was still bouncing in their six yard box. Lasley stealing 10 yards after the original taker was told to put the ball back. Aberdeen actually set up a wall.
I need to go back and watch it again.
I always point out that if the goal hadn’t stood it was a penalty to us. The first action in the box as the ball is played in is for Hutchy to get yanked back.
Go back to the Ross County and Livingston games, see what the line up was, pick a team as close to that as possible, replace anyone that is unavailable with as close to like for like as possible. Simple.
I think the ref got it wrong chalking off the goal but I thought he let the rest of the game flow. There were many situations where a more fussy ref would have stopped the game.
It is not outwith the bounds of probability that we would have won both games (possibly not 3-0) these games were in the middle of our hot streak. We have not been given extra points, we have been given points that we may have won although it wasn’t guaranteed.
There are some defenders that he is just quicker than so he can go past them on the outside, down the line, then cut in as usual. Hopefully his threat is recognised and we deal with it appropriately.