GDT: Europa League Final - Liverpool vs Sevilla - St Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland
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I wouldn't say that Liverpool shouldn't have had the penalties, but you can't say that the second half wouldn't have taken a different course if Liverpool had scored a penalty and not say that the game wouldn't have taken a different course if Sevilla had conceded a penalty on the earliest handball. They would have been more careful to avoid handballs or played more offensively if they had gone down earlier.
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Don't remind me. Of course part of the problem is that his teams typically face better opposition in the cup finals. The three Bayern matches were certainly a case of that.
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One when Firmino was going around the defender and he stuck his hand out to grab the ball and another where their defender put their hand on the ground to stop the ball going by. The latter was just as blatant as it gets. There was a second where Rami had his hand out and blocked the ball with it, but wasn't sure about that one.
It's one thing to lose but for the referee to have such a heinous impact on the game is hard to accept.
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Sevilla wasn't 3-1 better than Liverpool in this match. At best for Sevilla, it should've been tied with those two penalties. If we want to assume the match would play out very differently with Liverpool up 3-0, Sevilla could've easily lost.
How does the best referee in Europe put in a performance like this? Did he really just happen to have maybe his worst match ever in a final? It doesn't help conspiracy theories.
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At the end of the day like I said Moreno and Mignolet needed to have a good game for us to win.
Moreno was atrocious. That he continues to play I blame completely on Klopp. He's been atrocious since joining Liverpool and he is more at fault for Liverpool losing this final than any ref, even egregious handballs aside.
If he's not replaced I have no hope for next season.
Moreno was atrocious. That he continues to play I blame completely on Klopp. He's been atrocious since joining Liverpool and he is more at fault for Liverpool losing this final than any ref, even egregious handballs aside.
If he's not replaced I have no hope for next season.
Pavel Buchnevich
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How does the best ref in the world have his worst performance of his career in a final involving a Spanish team that ends up favoring the spanish team?
Also in the big picture, Sevilla qualify for next seasons Champions League and will likely be in Pot 2 for next season which is good news for them. No Europe for Liverpool so they can concentrate on the league now
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Pavel Buchnevich
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Had nothing to do with in the sense of Liverpool's quality of play. Of course it would have had an impact on tactics and approach, but Liverpool was horrid in the second half, especially defensively, and that's inexcusable in the second half of a final. That's mental fragility of another class.
Go look at what you posted. You posted a lot more than just commenting on the ref.
That's bad, even for you.
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There's a problem with your first paragraph, as I previously noted. If Liverpool had been granted one of those penalties, the rest of the match would have also played out differently, and there would have been no guarantee that Sevilla would have had another hand ball and given another penalty.
Why would UEFA conspire to let Sevilla win? They have less exposure and far fewer fans than Liverpool.
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Yeah, Liverpool's trophy cabinet is pretty much barren. I mean, you are often a clown but surely even you must have limits?
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Pavel Buchnevich
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So you are telling me this game wasn't rigged for the Spanish team? It certainly seemed like it was. If not, what a big coincidence that the Spanish team gets every single controversy to go their way!
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So you are telling me this game wasn't rigged for the Spanish team? It certainly seemed like it was. If not, what a big coincidence that the Spanish team gets every single controversy to go their way!
It wasn't rigged. Get a grip.
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Why would UEFA or whomever you think is perpetrating this conspiracy allow Liverpool to advance to the final over a Spanish side?
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https://streamable.com/d5h7
This was one of them. Can't find the other.
Moreno will be replaced after that, but only one of those goals could be blamed on him, and on that goal Mignolet should have thrown his body into traffic and punched it away. Mignolet also did no favors on the third. His positioning was shocking, but we already know this by now. He also routinely failed to come out and claim balls he should have. Any replacement will do.
I agree. Some players here also did a major disappearing act when you wouldn't expect them to. Sturridge was the only attacker to turn up, and Coutinho and Firmino pretty much did nothing the whole match.
Calling one of those handballs would have prevented any of the 3 v 3 attacks Sevilla had, so the game would have been totally different. It's extremely frustrating and UEFA really needs to look into their referee selection process, but people have been saying that for years.
