JeffreyLFC
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I would like:
Man United vs Man City
Tottenham vs Juventus
Liverpool vs Ajax
Barcelona vs Porto
Man United vs Man City
Tottenham vs Juventus
Liverpool vs Ajax
Barcelona vs Porto
I would like:
Man United vs Man City
Tottenham vs Juventus
Liverpool vs Ajax
Barcelona vs Porto
Which was a response to a post. "Context".Yeah, really "positive comment" with the "even he".
He didn't slide in his path, he stopped from tackling and Suarez changed direction in order to step on his foot and act like he was fouled.I'm honestly surprised that everyone here seems to think the Suarez penalty was 100% undeserved. Defenders are not allowed to slide into an attackers path and impede the attacker's progress without getting the ball. I wouldn't have given it, but it is a very defensible call.
I'm also extremely disappointed for OL. I found myself buying into their hype but it just wasn't meant to be. Why didn't Aouar play?
Again, was Denayer between Suarez and the ball at any moment?The two scenarios you outlined are exactly the same, except in one of them Suarez embellishes the contact. Both are still fouls though, at least by the letter of the law. You can't put a foot in and impede progress without getting the ball unless it's a 50/50. If it was a 50/50 then Suarez would have seen yellow, but since he was in possession he gets awarded the pen.
How many times did English teams like Wenger's Arsenal try and fail to get past Bayern Munich in Round of 16? Without hyperbole, this was Liverpool's best road performance against a top team all season. They had lost ever away game in their CL group including Red Star Belgrade. It's a great win, but obviously there is more work to do.
I think part of the problem is that everyone uses their own standards and judgment and applies them to the game. VAR isn't supposed to clean up the gray area (handballs, weird challenges, judgment calls) it's more supposed to clean up black and white things like offside, was there a blatant foul in the build up, did it actually hit the hand, etc.Yes, but VAR was supposed to fight against that, but in fact it has worsenned the gap.
The fact VAR "didn't work" when the calls in favor of Barca and Real would have been overturned is quite the black eye to any integrity.
It wasn't like this before. There was the odd referee mistake here and there but not a constant trend like this. The thing is right now UEFA is selling tv rights for those games ALL OVER THE WORLD so it's better for them to have always the same big teams in the final rounds, much easier to sell and bring in some new fans of those big clubs.There's no question that certain teams get favourable calls; that's always been the case. If there's even a chance that they can give those calls in the favour of the bigger team, they usually will.
It's a completely valid comparison, and it's not even an anti-Arsenal comparison necessarily, but the fact is English teams, including some very good Wenger teams could not get past Munich. It was a dead end for English teams in the CL.Are you serious?
This Bayern team is not like those previous Bayern teams.
Seems like hypocrisy. I've seen you gloat about being right about things plenty of times, and you've been wrong about plenty too. People do care, they just only care when they're right (then they get agitated like you are now when they aren't). Nobody likes being wrong shoved in their face but at the same time they're more than happy to **** on someone else when they're wrong, even if the initial statement was not with any kind of intent of showing someone up (just look at many of my past posts on Can who I know you loved, Coutinho, van Dijk, Firmino, Salah, the CL last year, Arsenal's decline etc. etc.). Glass houses I guess. I'm sure you'll have some kind of snide reply, as you always do, but yeah keep talking about how 'often I've been wrong' since the beginning of last season (would be interested to see what basis that has). The difference is I actually admit when I'm wrong and don't just disappear or avoid the subject.The only thing toxic is when people go around gloating that they're right. You don't see me going around talking about how I was right about Bayern or any of that ****. In fact I haven't posted in that thread at all since I said last season Kovac would hurt Bayern very badly. You should learn that nobody really cares to begin with if you're right or not, but if you're going to gloat about something, your wrongness is just going to look even worse and lead to people pointing out how wrong you often are.
I agree. This was the most vulnerable Bayern in years whether they were in good form or not. They're still a very good team and will likely finish in 1st in the BuLi again, so it's a good win for Liverpool, but it's not anything exceptional. Still worth celebrating.Nah, that's a pretty bad comparison. This Bayern was not a CL contender this year. Still a good result to beat them, but no comparison with the CL-challenging Bayerns.
As for VAR, problem is, at which point do we start to believe VAR really "stops working" when it's OK for big teams?
Not without Robben.It's a completely valid comparison, and it's not even an anti-Arsenal comparison necessarily, but the fact is English teams, including some very good Wenger teams could not get past Munich. It was a dead end for English teams in the CL.
Bayern is Bayern and they have been in great form since the winter break. Bayern is still a big 4 team.
It's a completely valid comparison, and it's not even an anti-Arsenal comparison necessarily, but the fact is English teams, including some very good Wenger teams could not get past Munich. It was a dead end for English teams in the CL.
Bayern is Bayern and they have been in great form since the winter break. Bayern is still a big 4 team.
VAR only kicks in if there’s a clear error. The only clear error was Barça. Calm down.So in this CL round, VAR either made the wrong call (or at least VERY arguable) or stopped working in favor of 4 teams : Real, Barca, Juventus and United.
Quite telling.