Vincent Kompany feels that his side are being hard done too and wants to see some consistency from those with the whistle.
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00:00 So I want you to note how calm and rational I am about this.
00:02 So in the context of this game, you can allow or disallow this goal and have kind of a 50/50
00:13 divide on people that say, "Well, yeah, well, in England, what have you got to do when the ball is
00:16 to the back stick? You've got to jump, right?" And he jumped earlier than his fullback. And you've
00:20 got another part that will say, "Yeah, probably, but he didn't make contact with the ball." So 50/50.
00:25 And then you follow the on-field decision. But then if you zoom out a little bit and you put
00:30 this goal against the goal we concede against Luton, because we're talking about, you know,
00:35 impeding a player whilst you're not making contact with the ball. That's exactly what
00:41 happened in the Luton game in reverse. So in that moment, you don't give a foul.
00:44 In this moment, you do give a foul. And a key deciding factors. And that side of it is difficult
00:52 to handle this season. Simple things as well, when you talk about consistency,
00:57 the first yellow card of Dario O'Shea. I don't actually have an issue with it because it's very
01:02 clear in the rules that this is a yellow card. But then when it happens five minutes later,
01:07 right in front of the dugout, and nothing is done about it, then I'm kind of,
01:11 "OK, do I add this to the pile of so many decisions we struggled to understand?"
01:15 And it keeps going on, whether it's the fouls and the soft yellow cards I was giving against
01:22 us against Aston Villa, who cost us a red card, the soft penalty against Aston Villa.
01:26 And you look at the yellow card offences today, and you look at the soft penalty on Odebere.
01:31 And right now, because you asked me about a goal-scoring moment,
01:37 in the bigger context, it's difficult to accept. But in reality, what I will do as soon as this
01:44 press conference is finished is not moan about this for one second and focus on what I can do
01:49 with my players. We're the ones who missed the chances, except for that one that we scored.
01:55 There were a few things to watch back, and for some reason I didn't see that one back.
02:00 The big thing, again, is consistency. That's all it is. I'm not here to make rules. I'm not even
02:08 wanting to concern myself with rules. I want to concern myself with coaching my team and
02:12 making them better and winning games. But those who make the rules and enforce the rules have
02:23 just got to make sure the consistency is there, because after that it becomes difficult to
02:28 retain the confidence. But OK, it's happened now, and trust me, after this
02:40 that will be done and I'll focus on our own performance.