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Champions League 24/25
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No love for oil money but got to love these celebrations happening in front of all the Liverpool fans lol
Their faces must be a picture2 -
PSG deserved that over the two legs, hope Newcastle beat them Sunday as they're tired now too!!1
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Who cares? Isn't it the same thing as 50k fans booing and whistling in the home end when PSG went to take their penalties?DaveMehmet said:How was that bellend in the PSG end with the loudspeaker allowed to carry on screaming throughout the penalties?1 -
Totally different IMO. It’s Liverpool so certainly not going to lose any sleep over it but 50k fans booing/whistling is just a wall of noise. You could clearly hear him over everything, just can’t believe he was a) allowed in with it and b) wasn’t stopped during the pens.sam3110 said:
Who cares? Isn't it the same thing as 50k fans booing and whistling in the home end when PSG went to take their penalties?DaveMehmet said:How was that bellend in the PSG end with the loudspeaker allowed to carry on screaming throughout the penalties?0 -
So now tonight (March 12th) two ex-Charlton loanees (Conor Gallagher and Ian Maatsen) both score in the Champions League!9
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VAR in Real Madrid's pocket? who would have guessed!
What a horrible way to lose a penalty shootout!1 -
Fuck me, Real Madrid are such lucky pricks.6
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Mad end to the Madrid derby. Athletico must feel sick to lose like that.
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Must be another angle of the VAR that they didn’t show.Cleared that sooo quick and the replay wasn’t conclusive at all.0
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Didn’t look like a double kick to me. UEFA won’t have Madrid out this early.5
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Stinks tbh.lordromford said:Fuck me, Real Madrid are such lucky pricks.
Can't see a double touch on the replay at all.
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You would have got long odds at the start of the season of Villa surviving longer than City and Liverpool.
Hard to see Villa and Arsenal progressing.1 -
It’s crazy that it isn’t a retake too. Kind of understand why it isn’t in normal play but in a shoot out a retake would be much fairer1
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Watching the highlights tonight, the Atletico pitch seemed ridiculously wet. Over watering the pitch came back to bite them.0
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Quarter-Final
Arsenal Vs R. Madrid
PSG Vs Aston Villa
Barcelona vs Dortmund
B. Munich vs Inter Milan
1st Leg (8th April), 2nd Leg (15th April)0 -
Clear & obvious error, where?North Lower Neil said:
Stinks tbh.lordromford said:Fuck me, Real Madrid are such lucky pricks.
Can't see a double touch on the replay at all.Not sure you can disallow it.2 -
Dreadful penalty decision against Lille as well. Where was VAR then?0
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killerandflash said:You would have got long odds at the start of the season of Villa surviving longer than City and Liverpool.
Hard to see Villa and Arsenal progressing.
PSG going out to Villa would be the most PSG thing ever4 -
Good explanation of the rules and evidence of double touch.It’s a shame, but he did break the rule of double touch.0
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At the end of the day, it’s done and there’s no replaying it, Real Madrid are just spawny pricks.BalladMan said:Good explanation of the rules and evidence of double touch.It’s a shame, but he did break the rule of double touch.
BUT… that clip showing the ball slightly moving away from the standing foot is NOT proof he double touched. His foot is very close to the ball and the proximity and force from his weight onto his foot will have moved the turf under the ball, which in turn would push the ball away. Not much, but enough. (In fact, if you look at the clip again, you can see that the part of the penalty spot under the ball by his foot also moves).
Granted, he may have touched it and there may be better evidence but if anything it’s a feather touch and therefore far too close to call unless they’re using snicko now 🏏🤔.That clip doesn’t show beyond reasonable doubt one way or the other. The fact that VAR came to its conclusion so quickly to change an on field decision is what is most problematic for me.6 -
Fair points and I can’t disagree with the point re:turf vs foot on ball.I had heard that the chips in the ball for the auto offside tech was used to determine double touch.I have no evidence that this is the case nor have the officials explained it.0
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They don’t use ball tech in CL for pens apparently.BalladMan said:Fair points and I can’t disagree with the point re:turf vs foot on ball.I had heard that the chips in the ball for the auto offside tech was used to determine double touch.I have no evidence that this is the case nor have the officials explained it.1 -
I suppose the VAR operators would say that a penalty shootout is a very different scenario to an incident during the match, when a 3 minute wait would be irritating but not an issue, whereas making the next penalty taker wait 3 minutes while they endlessly went through every replay several times would be creating unfair pressure on him.lordromford said:
At the end of the day, it’s done and there’s no replaying it, Real Madrid are just spawny pricks.BalladMan said:Good explanation of the rules and evidence of double touch.It’s a shame, but he did break the rule of double touch.
BUT… that clip showing the ball slightly moving away from the standing foot is NOT proof he double touched. His foot is very close to the ball and the proximity and force from his weight onto his foot will have moved the turf under the ball, which in turn would push the ball away. Not much, but enough. (In fact, if you look at the clip again, you can see that the part of the penalty spot under the ball by his foot also moves).
Granted, he may have touched it and there may be better evidence but if anything it’s a feather touch and therefore far too close to call unless they’re using snicko now 🏏🤔.That clip doesn’t show beyond reasonable doubt one way or the other. The fact that VAR came to its conclusion so quickly to change an on field decision is what is most problematic for me.0 -
Was the actual touch before he kicked it? I thought he kicked it onto his standing foot as it slipped0
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Possibly. But maybe not. We still don’t know.sam3110 said:Was the actual touch before he kicked it? I thought he kicked it onto his standing foot as it slippedWhich is kind of the point I was making - they shouldn’t have changed the on field decision if it was unclear. But they did. Very quickly.0 -
Oddly, Mbappe immediately signalled to the ref that it was a double touch. Obv he might have been guessing and trying to create pressure on the referee. I agree with the opinion of most. If there is no evidence beyond what I have seen above, then it should have stood as it is not clear0
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England are guaranteed to have a fifth Champions League spot next season after Arsenal's win over Real Madrid last night.
England secure fifth Champions League spot after Arsenal beat Real Madrid - BBC Sport1 -
I wouldn't cry if Madrid came back and knocked Arsenal out of the Champions League. I have irrational hatred for Arsenal.2
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Villa lead 1-0 away to PSG.
Barely had a kick in the first half an hour and now they've scored on the break.1
