Carlos Carvalhal: "Kieran Lee is not a player who dives"

[@owlstalk]

 

Carlos Carvalhal has stressed the importance of focusing only on what his side can control as the Owls head towards a busy schedule of fixtures.

 

The head coach says that despite not getting the rub of the green this season with a string of contentious decisions, the SWFC camp will concentrate on what lies in their hands

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He told swfc.co.uk: “As a coach and as players, we can only control what we can do, everything else does not belong to us.

 

“We have been denied a lot of points this season with decisions that have not been correct.

 

“This is something I do not like to talk about but this season, when there have been so many, I must talk.

“On Saturday, we had two clear penalties refused, it is clear they were both penalties to Jordan Rhodes and Barry Bannan.

 

“At Birmingham there are 20 minutes to go and Gary Hooper scores a goal, a very good goal, that was onside.

 

“At Bolton Kieran Lee is very clearly tripped in the penalty area. Kieran Lee is not a player who dives, I have never seen him do this, ever, and we do not get the penalty.

 

“At Derby, we take a red card and a penalty then in a very similar situation with Steven Fletcher we did not get anything.

 

“We had a very good goal disallowed against Leeds against Kieran Lee for offside but thankfully we won the game.

 

“I do not suggest anything is wrong because I am here working in the country of the home of football and I have 100% respect for everyone.

 

“But I talk about only the facts and the facts are that we would have at least seven more points and we would be in third position before this very important part of the season.”

[flo]

We would actually be 5th. 

[OxonOwl]

Whatever else is wrong, all this is true (except maybe the league position)

[OwlofOliveGrove]

Cop out excuses, CC.

 

Getting those decisions doesn't guarantee we'd convert the penalties, or win the games in the end.

 

Change your style of play and stop boring us to death!

[Pale Rider]

I am still not convinced the Rhodes incident was a penalty and Bannan dove. In fairness he doesn’t mention the perfectly good goal Boyd scored at Burton. None of this for me can justify the entire team not performing against Bristol 

[optimisticowl]

If he says the same about Westwood I’m chucking the towel in.

 

[Handball_!!]

yeah but if you're 2-0 up and playing well the referee doesn't get discussed and no one even remembers the penalty appeals.

[Bramhall Owl]

27 minutes ago, Pale Rider said:

I am still not convinced the Rhodes incident was a penalty and Bannan dove. In fairness he doesn’t mention the perfectly good goal Boyd scored at Burton. None of this for me can justify the entire team not performing against Bristol 

Really? He might (and I say might) have gone down a bit easy but he was barged over by the defender who made no effort to play the ball. Therefore it's a penalty, it doesn't matter if he goes down easily or not.

I do agree that had the penalties been given and the goals allowed, our position would have glossed over poor performances

Edited November 21, 2017 by Bramhall Owl