Gary Breen
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And you're right to reference it because when it's live and you see that forward, just get his body in front of the recovering defender and then kind of slows up to take the contact and goes to ground.
It looks messy.
It looks scruffy, untidy.
And your immediate reaction is, this is going to be a penalty.
But you're right, the replays show that he does hook him.
Maduweke does hook his arm round and kind of half drag him in.
That's not to say that by doing it, it doesn't mean that collapsing on top of him isn't a penalty.
So that literally could have gone either way in a season.
Certainly in the back end last six weeks of Arsenal, every height decision has gone Arsenal's way.
And it felt as well that that handball of Saka on the edge of the box went Arsenal's way as well.
Because they'll say it hit him, but it did look at the last moment, Saka just pushes that ball into his path so he can clear it before the PSG guys come back.
Now, people say it's harsh, but we've seen penalties like that given, especially in the Champions League where the threshold seems to be completely different to the Premier League.
So Arsenal got away with that one.
And unfortunately, that last one didn't go their way.
Yeah, and listen, we know Arsenal are so methodical in terms of everything, where they can get their marginal gain.
So there's no doubt they'll have worked on penalties and stuff like that.
But you just can't.
This is the point that no one really makes.
You just can't replicate it.
And not just in terms of the pressure attached to it, but that you'll have players who've just played 120 minutes of football.