Embolo tears after the red

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SoccerWizard

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Breel Embolo breaking down in tears after being sent off has turned into the story everyone is talking about, and honestly it is hard to know whether to laugh or wince. The dive itself looked ridiculous, but seeing him react like that adds a proper layer of drama to it.

A lot of people are saying he only has himself to blame, and that is fair enough. At the same time, you can see why the moment hit him so hard when he knew exactly what it meant for his side.

Was it just plain stupidity, or is the reaction itself proof that the pressure got to him? Feels like one of those incidents people will be arguing about for ages.
 
You cant be on a yellow and still try that nonsense mate absolute clown behaviour honestly he just handed the other side the whole moment and then acted shocked when it all went sideways
 
I get why people are piling in because the dive was so obvious and the second yellow was always coming, but the tears make it feel a bit more human than just a meme moment. He knew exactly what he had done, and that kind of instant regret can hit hard when you realise you have just put your team in a horrible spot. Still, you cannot ask for sympathy and then go down like that in the first place, it was stupid, it was avoidable, and it has probably ruined the mood for everyone involved and now he is sat there in tears while the whole thing gets replayed over and over and over and he has only himself to blame really
 
The key issue is that he had already been booked, so any risk-taking there was always going to be costly. Once you are in that situation, the smart play is to stay on your feet and keep the move alive.
 
Reminds me of a lad I knew in the pub league years ago who used to throw himself over at every little touch and then act like he had been shot, one game he did it twice in the box and the ref finally lost patience and booked him for the second one and he was raging, swearing at everyone, then at half time he is sitting there with his head in his hands saying he only wanted the penalty and now he has made himself look a mug, same sort of energy here really, you can almost hear the whole bench screaming at him to stay up and he still goes for it and then the tears come out after the whistle, football does that to people sometimes but it is still a daft thing to do
 
Nah I dont buy the whole poor him angle at all he chose to dive on a yellow and thats the whole story really, if anything the tears just show he knew how stupid it was so people acting like the ref was harsh are miles off
 
Mate he went full drama school and then got sent off for it, absolute scenes from the man and now he is crying like he has been told the pizza is cancelled
 
From a tactical point of view it kills your own momentum more than anything else. If your side is already on top, the last thing you need is a needless booking and a man down for a dive.
 
Honestly this is the sort of thing that makes people lose their minds with diving because he is on a yellow and his team are in a good position and he still decides to go down like that and then the tears start and everyone is supposed to feel sorry for him but I just cannot get there because the whole point of discipline is knowing when not to do something stupid and he did it anyway and now the whole game changes and the other lads have to carry that mess because one moment of nonsense wiped it all out
 
The officials did exactly what they were supposed to do and yet somehow the outrage always lands on the referee when a player makes the most blatant dive imaginable, that is the bit that winds me up, the laws are there for a reason and if you start rewarding that stuff then every match turns into a circus, he got caught because he made it easy to catch him and the second yellow was the obvious outcome, people can moan all they like but the blame sits with the player and not the man with the whistle
 
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