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4 hours ago, sharkyvilla said:

The co-commentator could barely hide her contempt for him at some stages last night.  I swear he's done all our Euro games this season and been awful.

Even on our goal..."I don't know what the referee is doing" when he is clearly gesturing to the Lille players that the GK ran into his own teammate

4 minutes ago, villa89 said:

C'mon the greeks!

Fenerbahce away will be a daunting environment, but not sure if Olympiakos away 2nd leg, knowing if they go through they have a home Final, will be any better!

15 minutes ago, HKP90 said:

He was told about that one by VAR. He was holding his ear afterward.

Don't make excuses, that performance by the ref was epicly bad.

What excuse? I didn't make any?

And no, he told the Lille players off instantly, before VAR could even pull up the replay...

One thing I will say about the ref though, is that he was spot on and bold with all the big decisions. For example, telling all the Lille players to do one as their GK rightly crashed into his own teammate.

Ismaily out there looking like this and didn't even have to go off the pitch??

Commentator: "They've had the ball but not had the penetration"

19 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

This is a monumentally damaging change also 

 

 

Mid-season break also scrapped...

There are two simple ways to potentially avoid replays that satisfy the "big" clubs while still providing a chance for lower league teams to reap the financial benefits of a replay:

1) "big" club has to be good enough to win the match the first time around

2) if the "big" club doesn't want a replay, they can forfeit

What are Barca complaining about? That was a red card any day of the week, no?

8 hours ago, Jas10 said:

 

Neither Solanke...I guess "forwards" doesn't include strikers...

8 hours ago, tinker said:

Listen to this from Ollie,  attitude has changed, there's a confidence that I have never seen in him before. He's going to break some records for us that's for sure.

 

I can't tell if that is Dougie or his doppleganger in the back acting as security

We played Arsenal off the pitch in the 2nd half and only Emi made Garth Crooks' team of the week

6 minutes ago, MWARLEY2 said:

We are happy with our 21 year old Rogers. Imagine how happy they are with Cole Palmer. Their new Lampard. 

Youngsters flourishing having left before having the talent drained out of them by Pepball...

4 hours ago, andykeenan said:

Atalanta v Liverpool Agg 3-0 8pmTNT Sport 1

West Ham v Bayer Leverkusen Agg 0-2 TNT Sport 2 8pm

Why do people care so much if the media are talking about us or not? I'd rather they keep ignoring us, let us go under the radar, less pressure...

One of the most ridiculous performances I've ever seen

Has previous with it too

Would be 4 points off top and 4th all but sown up if we hadn't given away 6 points to those red Manc rocket polishers

If I was Digne I would have gone full windup on that throw-in, crashing into Arteta who was out of the technical area

Saka goes into the back of Rogers, yellow card Rogers??

2 hours ago, MrBlack said:

VAR should have picked up the Kane elbow really. The ref missed or didn't have a full clear view of what he'd done I don't think. 

The others the ref saw and opined on at the time. The hand ball by the Arsenal player is utterly bizarre. I can understand the ref not wanting to make such a huge non-sporting mistake a match deciding event... but the ball was in play and the arsenal player picked it up.  

I didn't mean that VAR should not have intervened (I think it was a red, personally), but it just feels "right" and "natural" that any contentious point is due to how it used to / should be, not re-refereeing

In the Arsenal-Bayern match last night:

-Kane should have seen red for his elbow on Gabriel

-Bayern should have had a penalty for an Arsenal defender picking the ball up in the box

-Saka trying to buy a penalty at the end, probably should have been carded for diving/remonstrating

Three contentious decisions in an otherwise cracking match. Have to say that it is, in a way, refreshing that any "debate" about these decisions has nothing to do with VAR

Never in a million years is that a pen

3 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Really shows how far we have to go yet

We beat two of the teams playing tonight within the span of a week...