Champions League Games 12/13 April '22

[cityboy1]

So if you get Liverpool in the final this is what, four times you'll have played them?

We need to beat them in every single one can't let them win the quad we'd never hear the end of it.

 

[Josh_D]

I guess they are going to battle to get to a semi final then just roll over makes sense

Stranger things have happened. I don’t expect them to shrink at the challenge but we’ve seen team wilt under the press/front 3 of the dippers

 

[Gray]

Rio saying 1 chance 1 goal benzema. He hit the bar 25 mins ago. Bless the simple buffoon.

His lisping and Cole’s screeching, does my head in.

 

[ScottSinclair]

Completely forgot Saul is at Chelsea

 

[Xhavenjoe]

We beat them a lot before the cl final too but we still lost. I still think rm would be easier over two legs then Chelsea.

We lost to them on the league and the FA Cup inside a few days.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

They have no chance of beating Liverpool.

They have, if you discount City.

 

[balotellishaircut]

How much time left ? Pls hang on RM

 

[malg]

In some ways I agree, the rules have changed over time and in that period football became the most popular sport in the world. Using this as a metric, I'd say that the rules DID work before VAR and the problem isn't with the rules or the referees it's with the 24 hour news sport channels, click chasing media and drama addicted social media that make a living by turning every marginal decision into a week long story and 'talking point'.
We've all been at games and seen goals that may have been marginally offside given but they were accepted as part of the game as fans at the actual match know how these decisions are made in real time and accepted them as part of the game, the same with most other decisions during a game.
I strongly disagree that there are more correct decisions now though, the 'correct decicions' are ones according to the new simplified VAR laws particularly regarding the mm offsides (Sterling at the weekend with the wrong frame used or Aguero coming back from offside to receive the ball in an onside position v Spurs in the CL) or goals chalked off because the ball brushed a hand or arm (tonight's Chelsea goal or Laporte v Spurs).
There's still exactly the same number of wrong or missed decisions as there have ever been except now the rules have been dumbed down for the hard of thinking and a hell of a lot of people don't celebrate goals anymore like they used to which doesn't seem like a worthwhile trade off for goals being disallowed by mm to me.
That's probably a topic for a different thread though.

 

[jimharri]

The fact Villarreal in Champions League semi kind of shows the farce of ‘the champions league’

You've had a bit of a mare there.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Completely forgot Saul is at Chelsea

Did he give you a call