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If the goal were a Liverpool goal or Man City goal, there would be no debate. It would hardly get a mention. On Yahoo (US), one of the sports headlines was "The footballing world is in uproar after VAR gaff" (or very similar). Then it 'proved' it by sharing 6 salty Twitter posts probably from City or Chelsea fans.
If there had been no VAR it wouldn't have been disputed.
At best the ball brushed his arm, but it's inconclusive & surely no Ref could have not given it or I forgot Halsey. Still Gallagher said it should have stood & that's good enough for me.
Uefa has defended the role of the video assistant referee in Wednesday’s remarkable Champions League quarter-final second leg at the Etihad Stadium, saying that all angles of Fernando Llorente’s goal were made available to on-field referee Cuneyt Cakir.
Source: Telegraph
Ifab chief David Elleray explained: "If the arms are extended beyond that silhouette then the body is being made unnaturally bigger, with the purpose of it being a bigger barrier to the opponent or the ball.
"Players should be allowed to have their arms by their side because it's their natural silhouette."
Bit of a daft question on the handball/non hand ball debate. If defending and the arm is out of the natural silhouette it's a handball, so if it did hit llorente's hand but was in his silhouette, is this then not a handball anyway?
This was a quite after the PSG game and I am sure it was mentioned in our first leg also about
the silhouette.
Every websites comment section are the black holes of the internet.Even the telegraph has arguments in the comments section,lol
If the goal were a Liverpool goal or Man City goal, there would be no debate. It would hardly get a mention. On Yahoo (US), one of the sports headlines was "The footballing world is in uproar after VAR gaff" (or very similar). Then it 'proved' it by sharing 6 salty Twitter posts probably from City or Chelsea fans.
Literally nothing wrong with the goal, incredible people have tried to make out City were fucked over. Soz we ruined the quadruple dream boiz
I don't agree with this 'everybody's against us' attitude. There was plenty of debate and discussion about the VAR decision for the penalty against Danny Rose last week. Stop this emotive reasoning which is exclusive of facts.
The penalty in the first leg was the correct call, by UEFAs rules, and going by those rules llorente's arm was not out of his natural silhouette position and didn't look to play it with his arm (don't think that's said in the rules, but guess it must be looked at also) so even if it did touch his arm/hand it's a goal.
If Man city or other people think they were hard done by with VAR, it evened itself out over the 2 games I say, we just took our chance.
I don't see what difference that makes to what I am saying.