Here we are, back talking about Wilfried Zaha again. It shouldn’t have been a penalty. He goes down too easily, too often.
I hope he gets a two-game retrospective diving ban, not because this was especially blatant but because you have to ask: ‘Wilf, when will you learn?’ It’s happening almost every week.
He makes the difficult job of being a referee even harder and needs to be taught a lesson.
Wilfried Zaha won a penalty for Crystal Palace against Manchester City at Selhurst Park
Zaha went tumbling down under pressure from Raheem Sterling in the 90th minute
He goes down too easily and too often and he should be punished retrospectively
Sterling comes to challenge and you look at his arm – there is contact – but Zaha put his leg into him to try to fool the referee. And it worked.
I struggle to see how Jon Moss could have given a red card to Jason Puncheon, though.
It was a nasty tackle on Kevin De Bruyne but it’s very difficult for a referee to give a red card to a player who is on a stretcher — a bit like Paul Gascoigne after his tackle on Gary Charles in the 1991 FA Cup Final.
Jason Puncheon brought Kevin De Bruyne’s game to an end with a horror tackle late on
Puncheon was booked for the tackle, but it could well have been a red – and injured both men