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Re: Manuel Pellegrini's post-Barca comments.
Really? what about the home game v Ajax last year?Marvin said:City weren't tackling heavily. I've seen a lot more physical games in La Liga, and last night in the Europa League for example. In the past I've been impressed with the refs we have had for European games.ilovefotball said:First of all, I came here to something else but seing the reaction from most of the posters here, I will write something else instead.
I don't get this referee talk at all. If anything, he was consistent on his job and Barca should be actually condemning the referee for disallowing the perfectly legit goal.
First goal incident, there is no doubt whatsoever that it is a red card. About the penalty, it looked stone wall penalty to almost everyone when it happened. Of course, after seeing it several times in slow motion, the decision was wrong. But anyway, to blame the referee for giving penalty there is small time.
Then there is the Barcelona goal which was disallowed. It kind off was a call that should settle the wrongly given penalty.
I don't remember any other major incidents from the game, which in itself shows that the referee did a good job.
Now, I understand Chelsea fans going crazy for that infamous loss to Barca in 2009/10 season, I even understand Arsenal fans complaining for that Van Persie red card and I do understand Inter Milan complaining for Motta's red card. But I don't get why City fans and their manager want to blame the loss to the ref.
The red card was the right decision and even if the penalty was not given, Barca scored 2 perfectly legit goal and thus the scoreline should have been 0-2 anyway.
If anyone wants to blame for the soft calls gone to Barca players ( which I honestly don't remember), it's better for your team to understand as soon as possible that you are not playing at the EPL, but UEFA CL. You can't be as physical as in EPL because there are teams from all over the continents which have differently perspective on how hard you can go on a tackle.
If anything you guys should be blaming, it should be your captain who played Messi on. Seriously, I think Pellegrini had his tactics spot on for this game, but that red card (correct one) ruined his tactics.