If you've got the Spanish version of Martin Atkinson as the ref, you know what's going to happen. Stick to winning domestic trophies as often as possible. European football is bent.
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Liverpool (h) - CL QF post match thread
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Lee won pen
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Good summation but the offside decision was terribly wrong in that if Milner hits a ball through to Sane inadvertently or as bad back pass Sane can’t be offside as no City player played if forward unless Sane was offside from KDB’s pass (which he wasn’t).
I’ve read and re-read the relevant law and I’m not clear......if the ball is adjudged to have rebounded off Milner rather than him deliberately knocking it back towards goal, then Sané is offside. However I’m not clear on what relevance the punch by Karius has in the decision. Karius clearly punches it deliberately, does that make Sané onside?
Manchester1894
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If you have BT sport. Cancel it immediately! FA cup and UCL final free to air or go to the pub!
I agree with you. All of the contentious moments came at important times.
We were dominating the start of the match at their place when an offside goal was allowed to stand which changed the complexion of the rest of the half. Our disallowed goal would have made the score 3-1 and given us a vital away goal, meaning 2-0 would have been enough for us in the 2nd leg. Our wrongly disallowed goal last night would have made it 2-0 at half time and got their nerves jangling more.
Can't remember what stage the game was at when we should have had the penalty at Anfield but that would have potentially been another away goal.
Of course football doesn't exactly work that way and if the result at their place had been different, then both teams would have approached last night's match differently but those incidents had a huge impact on the result. Having said that, I thought they were just about the better team over the 2 legs but those decisions certainly shaped the tie.
they were better because of the incorrect officiating
I’ve read and re-read the relevant law and I’m not clear......if the ball is adjudged to have rebounded off Milner rather than him deliberately knocking it back towards goal, then Sané is offside. However I’m not clear on what relevance the punch by Karius has in the decision. Karius clearly punches it deliberately, does that make Sané onside?
pretty sure chris foy on bt clarified it was onside and as such the goal should of stood, the spanish ref either doesn't know the rules thus shouldn't be reffing at this level or deliberately chose to ignore the law of the game
John Oliver
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Yes still proud to be a blue.
Team played well but with the usual frustrations. Dominated possession but didn’t make the most of it, not helped by one bad referee decision. Opposition made their limited chances count, in part down to our poor defending.
A lot of the team a wee bit under par. Bernardo and Fernandinho our best players for me.
So it’s Arriverderci Barcelona not Roma, and Roma with a couple of City rejects. It’s a mad mad world.
Team played well but with the usual frustrations. Dominated possession but didn’t make the most of it, not helped by one bad referee decision. Opposition made their limited chances count, in part down to our poor defending.
A lot of the team a wee bit under par. Bernardo and Fernandinho our best players for me.
So it’s Arriverderci Barcelona not Roma, and Roma with a couple of City rejects. It’s a mad mad world.
Burtonblue
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At last Pep has stopped taking it on the chin.Absolutely. Its totally corrupt,the premier league is bad enough but this is on another level.good on Pep for calling that ref out.
It doesn’t work. Time to show we are not just going to rollover and be mugged ad infinitum.
Interestingly even the media seem to accept we were hard done by.
We would have definitely won that tie if the officials had done their job. End of.
At half time yesterday, adjusted for those three clear refereeing decisions, we were up 4-3 in the tie and with Liverpool needing to score once just to get to extra time.
We weren't "worse" than Liverpool until the last half hour when heads dropped
I thought we were worse. i thought, overall, L'pool were more clinical in attack and their defence was better organised (especially 2nd half at Anfield). I also thought they managed the games with a better structure, playing with intensity and dropping deep with clear strategy, i thought ours was a bit haphazard.
The offside goal last night really hurt but we needed to be better, which hopefully next season we will be.
I’ve read and re-read the relevant law and I’m not clear......if the ball is adjudged to have rebounded off Milner rather than him deliberately knocking it back towards goal, then Sané is offside. However I’m not clear on what relevance the punch by Karius has in the decision. Karius clearly punches it deliberately, does that make Sané onside?
Every former referee seems to be in agreement that it was a legitimate goal, whether that makes it more, or less, likely that the referee called it wrong is debatable.