Check complete, check complete.
The ref played advantage, so he would have given the penalty if Diaz wasn't fouled. As Diaz was fouled, he gave the penalty for that instead, which in itself probably wasn't a red. What is to not understand about that? We're now 14 games unbeaten with Taylor as ref.
Mind you, we were awful until then, or as Aldo put it best early on, we were "still in bed". The first goal showed that. Endo was bought for this kind of fixture, (and the one before that) and if he's sitting on the bench for it, he may as well not have bothered coming here. I accept that Jürgen beds players like him in slowly, but we don't really have a great new midfield, if there's a vital cog missing in these kind of games. Alexis is not a defensive midfielder, he can't do it, and if someone like me notices it, surely Jürgen can, and try something else. Ryan's miss after half time dropped the two points, and imo he looks like the player Bayern Munich got, rather than the player Ajax had. Only Dominik looks anywhere near the standard of midfielder we need, at this time.
With City dropping points again, the result isn't too bad. With 4 games to come before the trip to City, we should go there with another 12 points in the bank and full of confidence. Even if it's on at the time everyone hates. At least we'll get it out of the way as soon as we can.
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