You mean the oil aspect I presume? Because in every other way, they are a wonderful advert for modern football. Amazing individual talent working their asses of for the collective. Kicks the shit out of watching anything in England.
Champion's League Semi Finals (with apostrophe)
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Teams should start a player down and bend over for Bayern like they do in the Bundesliga.
They showed several replays and none shows the ball touched his arm. It was his chest.
Similar to Sesko's goal the weekend.
I also can't remember that a fourth official ever intervened and overturned the ref.
We had more shots and more xG, how was PSG the better team?
It was very even and giving a penalty for Davies hand in the first leg (when the ball hit his thigh first) but not today was as ridiculous as not sending off Mendes because they saw a hand from Laimer when he played the ball with his stomach.
Seriously feck off
It happens in basically every match? Player gets fouled near the corner, assistant waves his flag, referee blows his whistle.
"ref got every call correct!!!"
You Bayern fans are weird. The penalty in the last leg has nothing whatsoever to do with tonight’s call. Which was indisputably correct. I agree the decision in the first leg was dodgy, although Davies weird arm position didn’t help him. The Neves incident was never a penalty in a million years.
Do Bayern fans have history of throwing junk at opposition players?
Not really but it was absolutely stupid today.
Ref fecked up, mendes off and bayern is in the final.
I’m with Arsenal for this final. Psg horrible manufactured club. endless oil money buying up superstar players and managers, no competition, no history just loads of money, 1.2 bilion team playing a league were no other team can compete because they arent worth more than 300m. Horrible example of oil money football , hope they never win anything.
But it wasn't the linesman. It was the fourth official!
If it was a clear handball/foul from Laimer, okay but it wasn't. Laimer played the ball with his chest.
Playing without Mendes for over 60 minutes I'm sure the result would have been different.
Very common in the Bundesliga. I remember Oliver Kahn got bombarded with bananas in many away games.
My Best 11 of the CL this season.
------------------------Raya-------------------
Hakimi---Sadiba---Marquinhos----Mendes
----------------------------Rice------------------------
----------Kimmich-------Vetinha--------------------
Olise---------------Kane-------Kvaratskhelia
------------------------Raya-------------------
Hakimi---Sadiba---Marquinhos----Mendes
----------------------------Rice------------------------
----------Kimmich-------Vetinha--------------------
Olise---------------Kane-------Kvaratskhelia
I mean, sure, psg is led by a criminal leading a sportswashing enterprise for a state that sponsors terrorism, but think about how annoying arteta is and all the goals from corners.
Yeah, true. Was almost gonna hope PSG lose until you reminded me what an atrocity Arteta’s Arsenal are.
Not especially sympathetic to Bayern considering how they steamroll the league financially, hoover players up and in general appear to show a sense of entitlement that puts supposed-United 90s/2000s 'arrogance' in the shade, but this was a horrendous performance by the officials.
Suspect part of the reason many posters are so keen to overlook those errors or minimize them is the suspicion that PSG are more likely to blow Arsenal out of the water in the final. PSG are an excellently-coached side, markedly different to the Neymar/Mbappe/Messi-era, but I'm not entirely sure the resemblance to '2000s/2010s blood-bag' Barca/Spain mentioned previously in thread is accidental either; top of the range HPA fitness regimes and 'motivation' plus organization still don't entirely account for that kind of 90+ minute energy...but, like PSG's mysteriously-cheap recruitment, suspect it's one of those aspects that just gets brushed over without even minimal investigation.
Suspect part of the reason many posters are so keen to overlook those errors or minimize them is the suspicion that PSG are more likely to blow Arsenal out of the water in the final. PSG are an excellently-coached side, markedly different to the Neymar/Mbappe/Messi-era, but I'm not entirely sure the resemblance to '2000s/2010s blood-bag' Barca/Spain mentioned previously in thread is accidental either; top of the range HPA fitness regimes and 'motivation' plus organization still don't entirely account for that kind of 90+ minute energy...but, like PSG's mysteriously-cheap recruitment, suspect it's one of those aspects that just gets brushed over without even minimal investigation.
Well then you have already a dodgy decision in the first leg and scandalous decision (not sending off Mendes) in the second. Hard to progress when all decisions go against you.
It's the 3rd semi already. Clear handball of Marcello and the deLigt goal not given in the last.
Bayern fans moaning about the referee is really daft as if their penalty in the first leg wasn’t soft as well.
Yeah but you'd cheer for 11 puppy kickers if they were playing arsenal.
How that can be given as a handball on Laimer instead of a second yellow for Mendes is ridiculous. Looked ridiculous in real time, then we saw no replays until well after the game so the outrage died down. Turns out it's still ridiculous. Not a handball by Laimer and should've certainly been a second yellow for Mendes.
That phase really took Bayern's concentration, too. It was when they were starting to grow into the game a bit.
That phase really took Bayern's concentration, too. It was when they were starting to grow into the game a bit.
Yeah it's crazy how so many football fans, who know better than anyone how a single incident can change a match, are just brushing this under the rug.
Bayern fans are crybabies and enrique is a genius, sure let's go with that.
I’m not sure the Mendes decision was a yellow card offence at all however didn’t the referees give a foul for something before therefore it’s irrelevant?
Kane has had (I think) 19 or 20 penalties this season.
20!!! Fecking 20!!
If that ain't some sheeeeeeit.
I think what he gave was a handball by the bayern player, which replays show it didn't happen.
It stops a counter attack where Olise is actually through on the wing. It's a handball equal to a tactical foul. By the laws of the game, it's a factual yellow card offence if the ref hadn't completely fumbled the decision.
The ref blew for the handball initially but then got told by his assistant that it was supposedly a handball by Laimer. Then he quickly changed it to freekick PSG. Only problem was, it was never a handball by Laimer.
Bayern would've been playing against 10 men from PSG for over an hour. Game changing situation and got into Bayern players' heads, too.
And they'd be right to.
I'm more than happy with the hatred, it means we're doing something right.
I thought the first booking was harsh so early on though. It’s all a bit lame whining about this incident when Bayern were completely nullified. Lucky not to have conceded three or four on the night.
Yesterday many criticized the ref in the other game. The idiot today was 10 times worse.
Revenge for Bayern getting Rafael sent off in the CL quarter final in 2010. We were in complete control of that tie until Bayern became shitehawks. Justice.
Im surprised VAR didn’t overturn that.
I wonder if there will be an uproar against PSG for celebrating going through to the final like there was for arsenal
Nobody is saying PSG weren't great for the remainder of the match. That's not the point as with most wrong refereeing decisions.
The point is PSG should have been down to 10 by the laws of the game after roughly 25 minutes and the ref got it wrong. Completely different game after that.
But no one’s talking about how harsh it would’ve been on PSG as Bayern got away with a few challenges early on that were every bit as caution-worthy or more than the Mendes challenge on Olise. It’s all a bit lame to say the least.
It's possible they are, I'd still label it as the most disgusting football since Jose at Porto.
ChristAnd Living on a Prayer at half time
Still no guarantee Bayern would have won it in this case
These are just narratives that get spread and that's it, they become "fact". Porto played good football, most goals in the league and of course, close shop when playing stronger opponents. We are 2 goals behind city I think and we've played plenty of decent football. The difference is that many matches that normally ended up as draws and fecked us over are now converted into ugly wins. All champions have them.
Starting from next season it would, but now they don’t check second yellow incidents yet (only straight reds)