da esport bet： West Ham United star Manuel Lanzini has been hit with a two-match ban from the Football Association for diving against Stoke City.
da realsbet： The Argentine hit the decks under the challenge of Erik Pieters in the first half, which resulted in the referee awarding a penalty, which put the Hammers 1-0 up.
David Moyes’s team went on to earn a 3-0 triumph at the Bet365 Stadium, but in the aftermath, Lanzini was charged with ‘successful deception of a match official’.
Replays showed that Pieters never made contact with the attack-minded star, despite lunging in.
Lanzini becomes the second Premier League player to be punished retrospectively for diving – Everton striker Oumar Niasse was the first.
The decision has sparked anger from fans of all football clubs, who feel that the English governing body are lacking consistency with there discipline.
Some fans took to Twitter to blast incidents that were not punished as strongly as Lanzini’s dive.