Spurs (H) 2nd Leg - Post Match Thread

Football is a cruel sport. 3 semifinalists finished 2nd in their respective groups. Spurs won only 8 points in their and went to last game to Camp Nou with same number of points as Inter who played at home vs PSV who had only 1 point from 5 games before. And yet both drew their games. Liverpool lost 3 away games in the group and went through the more goals scored than Napoli who missed a sitter in 94th minute of their last deciding game. Rags went as far away as we did by scoring only 2 home goals in entire CL campaign and we are out despite scoring at least 10 goals more than any of the semifinalists.
 
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Tough loss to swallow. But I am so proud of the team fighting till the end. Another day and this is a 4-0 battering. That's the margins.

Also the match day gojng fans. Wow the atmosphere tonight was immense. Come on city onto the next and let's try win the league now
 
BosnianBlue said:
Football is a cruel sport. 3 semifinalists finished 2nd in their respective groups. Spurs won only 8 points in their and went to last game to Camp Nou with same number of points as Inter who played at home vs PSV who had only 1 point from 5 games before. And yet both drew their games. Liverpool lost 3 away games in the group and went through the more goals scored than Napoli who missed a sitter in 94th minute of their last deciding game. Rags went as far away as we did by scoring only 2 home goals in entire CL campaign.
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That's why the tournament is not held in the same light as the domestic title is.

Great to win it and a great achievement if you do but its essentially a knock out tournament and as Pep as others have described its often decided on the rub of the green on the night.

There are as many people who would think their 3rd goal would have been ruled out for hand ball and if the decision was left to the VAR's and not the ref and all angles shown then it was as likely as it was not that hand ball would have been given.

Pep is pretty honest in these matters he thought it was handball and I thought it was handball and had it been one of our players still would have thought it was hand ball but others would come to a different conclusion.

Over the two legs we had more of the ball , more shots on goal , more shots on target , were the better team in both games and deserved to go through and that is the view of most neutrals but it was not be and that how it can pan out.

You look at the premiership table and it tells you we are a stronger , more talented side than spurs and that is how it is but it doesn't guarantee you will finish ahead on the scoreline over two legs.

In saying that its high time the rules changed and if its level after 180 minutes do what you do in most knockout comps and have 30 minutes and penalties.
 
Just got back from Manchester What a game! spoke to a few Spurs lads after and they were proper sound. Good on them.
Every one of them is routing for us to top the dippers.

No agro with any of them, a brilliant match and atmosphere.
What it's all about CTID!
 
I was in uniform, in a crew lounge, using my phone to stream to my iPad between flights (4hr sit in Cancun) and was going mental, topping it off with jumping up and yelling “Get the fuck in!” on the “fifth” goal.

Didn’t even know it was disallowed until I sat back down and noticed the score was still 4-3!! Heard it was Aguero offside, but thought Erickson had passed it to him!?!

What did I miss?

My apologies for my confusion! Just got off the flight and am jumping on another one!

And, it was handball. Clearest view is (IMHO) from behind the goal. How the ref can just shrug his shoulders in such an important game is beyond me.

Absolutely gutted for the players, but as said elsewhere...shipping THREE AWAY GOALS isn’t what the CL is about. First leg (esp missed pen) was a disaster (team selection, late goal, etc) and it was always going to be uphill battle. However, at 4-2 I thought we’d done it.

Spurs did what Palace and others have done: Counterattacked the shit out of us. Sadly, one of the lads had a nightmare at the back and we just couldn’t put away a few chances that would have buried the tie.

All the eggs in one basket now, until the league is done.

Again, absolutely gutted for the players and the club, not to mention my own despair!!
 
ChicagoBlue said:
I was in uniform, in a crew lounge, using my phone to stream to my iPad between flights (4hr sit in Cancun) and was going mental, topping it off with jumping up and yelling “Get the fuck in!” on the “fifth” goal.

Didn’t even know it was disallowed until I sat back down and noticed the score was still 4-3!! Heard it was Aguero offside, but thought Erickson had passed it to him!?!

What did I miss?

My apologies for my confusion! Just got off the flight and am jumping on another one!

And, it was handball. Clearest view is (IMHO) from behind the goal. How the ref can just shrug his shoulders in such an important game is beyond me.

Absolutely gutted for the players, but as said elsewhere...shipping THREE AWAY GOALS isn’t what the CL is about. First leg (esp missed pen) was a disaster (team selection, late goal, etc) and it was always going to be uphill battle. However, at 4-2 I thought we’d done it.

Spurs did what Palace and others have done: Counterattacked the shit out of us. Sadly, one of the lads had a nightmare at the back and we just couldn’t put away a few chances that would have buried the tie.

All the eggs in one basket now, until the league is done.

Again, absolutely gutted for the players and the club, not to mention my own despair!!
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Keep your pants on, dramatic as fcuk.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
I was in uniform, in a crew lounge, using my phone to stream to my iPad between flights (4hr sit in Cancun) and was going mental, topping it off with jumping up and yelling “Get the fuck in!” on the “fifth” goal.

Didn’t even know it was disallowed until I sat back down and noticed the score was still 4-3!! Heard it was Aguero offside, but thought Erickson had passed it to him!?!

What did I miss?

My apologies for my confusion! Just got off the flight and am jumping on another one!

And, it was handball. Clearest view is (IMHO) from behind the goal. How the ref can just shrug his shoulders in such an important game is beyond me.

Absolutely gutted for the players, but as said elsewhere...shipping THREE AWAY GOALS isn’t what the CL is about. First leg (esp missed pen) was a disaster (team selection, late goal, etc) and it was always going to be uphill battle. However, at 4-2 I thought we’d done it.

Spurs did what Palace and others have done: Counterattacked the shit out of us. Sadly, one of the lads had a nightmare at the back and we just couldn’t put away a few chances that would have buried the tie.

All the eggs in one basket now, until the league is done.

Again, absolutely gutted for the players and the club, not to mention my own despair!!
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Sadly/suspiciously, he wasn't given that angle. He'd have disallowed it if he had & we'd probably be in the SF now

Aguero was offside because Bernardo intercepted Eriksen's pass and it rebounded to Aguero. Right call.
 
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Sadly/suspiciously, he wasn't given that angle. He'd have disallowed it if he had & we'd probably be in the SF now

Aguero was offside because Bernardo intercepted Eriksen's pass and it rebounded to Aguero. Right call.
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Didn’t see any “interception.” Was it a deflection?

Anyway, history now. Thanks for clearing it up.
 
Silva_Spell said:
Sadly/suspiciously, he wasn't given that angle. He'd have disallowed it if he had & we'd probably be in the SF now

Aguero was offside because Bernardo intercepted Eriksen's pass and it rebounded to Aguero. Right call.
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If I’m not mistaken, when they review a call in North American sports the reviewers are given access to the TV camera shots. Like everyone else who watched it on TV and saw the replays it certainly looked to me like a pretty clear handball. Why the VAR adjudicators and referee aren’t given the same camera shots we were all looking at it is mystery. How can they possibly adjudicate on half the evidence?
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Didn’t see any “interception.” Was it a deflection?

Anyway, history now. Thanks for clearing it up.
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Yep, sadly. Initially I thought it had come off a Spurs player. They should have played in their regular kit. Far less confusing than that green thing they wore.
 
Marvin said:
Hope you're right mate. I can't bring myself to review the VAR decisions. I just don't want to do it. I don't see why Spurs will feel any more shattered than City, indeed mentally they will be exhilarated now. We have to pick ourselves up. That is a very big ask. Win this game, it will say so much about the team. And then take it into the Derby.

It's probably good that we have a big game so soon and it's SPurs rather than a rested side who many would expect us to beat comfortably.
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I didn't make myself clear to be fair, we should be able to rotate a few bodies in for Saturday...Sane, Fernandinho, Otamendi, Stones, Mahrez all should be fresh and looking to prove a point.

They've probably lost Sissoko for Saturday along with Kane.

Edit: I've just seen the guys on ESPN and the angle from behind the goal not shown to the ref..Had he seen that I'm certain (as they are) that he'd have disallowed it.

By the sounds of it the team are pissed off and we'll come out firing on Saturday.
 
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we have BEGGED for a Final since I was a child and here we now PL in our hands with the Domestic Treble in our hands and people want to moan!
Not good enough is it! CTID
 
Fair play to lads if they come out and play a good match after what happened last night. I still feel sick in the stomach.
 
Lol everyone needs to calm down. No VAR and Peps plan worked to perfection. Take the missed penalties and definsive mistakes as part of the tie as that is football but in the end going out was purely due to a failure in a system which has been employed to reach the correct outcome which is very “typical city”, the performance was not... it was mesmerising at times.

Also worth noting I think our performance and energy levels may have been a result of good squad management which points to the fact that Pep just might actually know what he is doing!
 
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