The Senegal international has made just five starts in the Bundesliga this season. With that being said, what exactly did Jackson expect? He joined a club whose first-choice striker is Harry Kane, a forward who has scored 128 goals in 132 appearances for them. There was ZERO chance of Jackson replacing Kane in Vincent Kompany's starting XI.
"I'm sorry that I gave away the penalty. We were playing well at that point. It didn't feel like a foul to me. There's always some contact in a tackle, but after looking at the footage and consulting VAR, that's how it turned out," said Lynen.
I mean, I think we're doing really good job [sic]. I want to remind everybody where we at [sic]. We're in the second year of our rebuild. If somebody told us, all of us, in September that right now we're going to be with a score [record] 19-14 - all of us, we would sign it up right away, right? So, we're seeing a lot of growth.
I remember very clearly within the first month of us having Shohei, there was a play where he was running the bases and he didn't necessarily get as good of a secondary lead and he wasn't able to score on a certain play. After the game, it was Freddie, Mookie, our first base coach Clayton, several of us grabbed him and just said,
When Matthews scored the game-tying goal in the third period, he put his hand to his ear gesturing to the crowd to "make more noise" which is pretty embarassing to do to your own fanbase. If you flashback seven years ago to an incredible regular season game on Oct. 7, 2018 against Chicago, Matthews did the same thing when he scored a go-ahead goal gesturing more that "I can't hear you", before Patrick Kane did the same thing back to him when he tied
