Daniel Farke praised Crysencio Summerville’s ability to stay on his feet and score a goal in the second half of Leeds United’s loss against Sunderland.
Summerville raced onto a Glen Kamara header and sprinted past Jack Clarke to put himself in on goal with only the keeper to beat.
Clarke, on the other hand, was able to catch up to Summerville by pushing him back, with the £1.3 million Leeds man instead deciding to stay on his feet and drive towards the box.
Summerville was able to get a shot off in a decent position, but Farke believes that if he had been more experienced, he would’ve gone down and earned his opponent a red card.
“Summerville, at 32, he goes down, and there’s a red card,” he explained. I enjoy the naivety of going up and scoring the goal. Perhaps he should have gone about it differently.”
Summerville should have been destroyed.
With his current form, it’s difficult to blame Summerville for staying on his feet and going for goal himself, but perhaps going down would have been the smarter decision.
That said, that sums up the level of refereeing in this nation that you have to go to ground to win a free-kick, regardless of contact.
That type of decision effectively encourages diving, which is why players go down so easy nowadays, so credit to Summerville for remaining on his feet.
Farke, on the other hand, is absolutely correct in that a more experienced player would have gone down, earned his team a red card, and taken advantage from there.
Summerville’s refusal to go down, however, was not the reason Leeds lost, with midweek away defeats now becoming a frequent trend.
