Referees/Officials

[GSW Blue]

Why only 3 minutes added time?
5 goals, how many subs?
Should have been at least 5 min
He couldn't wait to blow the whistle

Three goals in the first half and not a second played over 45 minutes.

Got to get those adverts in I suppose.

 

[Ric]

There always seems to be less added time in European games. No idea why, but it's pretty common to have no added time in the first half, and only a couple of minutes at the end.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Just rewatched the game.

-Yellow card to Glik is extremly tough. Cost us the second leg without him
-Silva is signaled outside when he clearly wasnt at the end of first, denying us a really good opportunity
- Clear foul on Glik on the 3rd goal.
-Yellow cards for Fernandinho and Zabaleta are really tough too.
-Falcao wasnt offside on the penalty, so it was clearly a penalty shot. But Otamendi should have took a red card. Last defender, behind falcao, two feets, and denying a clear action of goal. Since it's deliberate, it should have been a red card.

Except those points, nothing to yell about.

Let's be brutal here. Following a long-established French tradition, your team surrendered. Go and have another piece of cheese.

Now do one - those onions won't sell themselves.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Why only 3 minutes added time?
5 goals, how many subs?
Should have been at least 5 min
He couldn't wait to blow the whistle

I thought at HT why no added time - three goals and umpteen cautions. He must have had a bloody rush on to get to Ringway and home to sunny Spain.

It was yet another example where referees and officials can manipulate a result. Ten bookings, eight goals. That's just over twenty five seconds for each, although my ERO tells me that they don't add anything on for bookings. Why should the non-offending team have their 90 minutes foreshortened because of some brute not playing to the Laws. The whole game from a refereeing and governance point of view must be the biggest shambles in sport.

 

[Gray]

Let's be brutal here. Following a long-established French tradition, your team surrendered. Now go and have another piece of cheese.

Now do one - those onions won't sell themselves.

Probably shitting themselves about how to support their inefficient farmers when the money supply dries up from the UK.

 

[old blue]

24 minutes between posts yet you managed to re-watch game. Well done Mon Ami.

 

[Father Paul]

Just rewatched the game.

-Yellow card to Glik is extremly tough. Cost us the second leg without him
-Silva is signaled outside when he clearly wasnt at the end of first, denying us a really good opportunity
- Clear foul on Glik on the 3rd goal.
-Yellow cards for Fernandinho and Zabaleta are really tough too.
-Falcao wasnt offside on the penalty, so it was clearly a penalty shot. But Otamendi should have took a red card. Last defender, behind falcao, two feets, and denying a clear action of goal. Since it's deliberate, it should have been a red card.

Except those points, nothing to yell about.

I see you are still around!! Anyway just to remind you that your keeper should have been sent off and penalty given before all of the above.

 

[FCBarca]

He's reffing the Atlético Madrid - Barcelona game this weekend. Let's see if he books Messi for diving.

Here's an interesting quote about him from www.sport.es, in an article headed El Sospechoso Historial de Mateu Lahoz (The Suspicious History of Mateu Lahoz):

A certain José Mourinho, then manager of Real Madrid, said this about the ref: "Es fantástico, lo quiero cada domingo" ("He's fantastic, I want him every Sunday").

No comment necessary!

Lahoz is among 4 or 5 Primera referees that are incompetent if not simply corrupt and Pep has plenty of experience facing him to know just how much a liability he is

 

[aguero93:20]

There always seems to be less added time in European games. No idea why, but it's pretty common to have no added time in the first half, and only a couple of minutes at the end.

Unless one of the favourite teams need a goal.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Offside here just before the ball seems to left (tough angle), but take one frame before and he isn't. That's why the line are shit. Especially from this angle, you can't tell where the ball goes off the feet.
It's not human to see it at full speed => Advantage to attack => Good call.

Sterling in not offside here.