Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Champions League - qtr. 2nd leg

[bubble07]

My spurs supporting mate is getting married same night as the final. I've already RSVP'd but I can pull out whereas he probably cant

 

[RichieS]

My dad was born in 1955, so not quite old enough to remember being in the semis in 1962. I called him at full time (I was in the pub, he couldn't bear to watch so was following via BBC at home) and I was in tears.

This is a massive fucking deal.

 

[tenerife spurs]

I’m terribly terribly drunk????

 

[Pistols At Dawn]

I find the controversy over Llorente's goal completely insane. If there is even the possibility the referees might've overturned for handball, there is simply no logic to the rule. The goal came quite obviously off his hip, and any GRAZING contact with the arm would've been 100 percent unintentional and would have no effect on the action whatsoever. The ball would've hit the hip and gone in whether or not it grazed his arm.

Regardless, I know this much: Any other supporters (most especially those entitled plastic Citeh fans) -- if he goal had been disallowed -- would've RIOTED.

 

[BorisTM]

Might be a bit of an inquest into VAR after that. We've actually been very lucky. It turns out it completely failed to show an angle of the Llorente goal which shows a very, very clear handball that should have seen it disallowed.

Seriously?!? He brought his arm closer to his body, not away from it, not flapping it up in the air as some players do, and after the ball hit it then bounced of his thigh and into the goal. If Llorente had stretched his arm out hoping that any of the 3 players right in front of him was going to somehow deflect the ball and he may have a chance to guide it towards the goal, YES, I could call it penalty, but THIS, no way! It was the right decision.

 

[Spurger King]

• qualification for the round of 16: €9.5m per club
• qualification for the quarter-finals: €10.5m per club
• qualification for the semi-finals: €12m per club

we best have a big spend up this summer

Hadn’t even thought about that. No wonder Levy looked so happy!

This has been an incredible season so far considering the circumstances. It could still end up bad, good, or dreamland.

 

[Goldman]

So I’m meant to be starting a new job on the day of the CL semi final second leg..

Sick leave for the first two days should be ok right? Right?

 

[tippspur59]

What a night just about finished shaking, what a roller coaster ride, unfcuking believable Spurs are in the semi-final of the champions league........coyfs !!!

 

[hutchiniho]

Augero was offside. Just putting it out there

Exactly. This VAR thing is taking far to much attention.
Ball played to guy in offside position. Therefore offside. Simple. No goal.
Is it just we needed a reply rather than the linos flag?

VAR maybe for Lorente’s goal sure. But as in the NFL, there wasn’t clear evidence to overturn a subjective decision.

City had their 95th minute Agueeerrooooo moment.
Now they have to take it when it’s the other way round !

 

[DiscoD1882]

And fuck Ferdinand. It dIsn’t hit his hand end of.

 

[THX2208]

gotta say the guys at Blue Moon are pretty reasonable. one or two moaning about VAR but far more saying the calls were correct and they bottled it in the first leg. I dont know if Id be so rational if it was the other way around.

I think that once VAR is introduced into The Premier League next season that every fan of every team will have go through the season loving then despising VAR. Tonight I VAR got every decision right. I was slightly embarrassed by Rio Ferdinand saying that he seen the skin on Fernando Llorente's arm move as the ball hit it but the only thing I seen was the ball clearly hitting his hip. Its of little consequence what his opinion of the incident was as I felt the referee got it 100% correct. We were ourselves the victim of a VAR penalty in the first leg and I'm sure that almost everyone here, including myself, thought that it was never a penalty as Danny Rose clearly did not move his hand deliberately towards the ball. VAR made tonight's game epic but for me every decision was correct.
COYS

 

[Lilbaz]

Can we change our name to tottingham?

Ozzie, maricio, pep... just sounds sexy.

 

[Lilbaz]

And fuck Ferdinand. It dIsn’t hit his hand end of.

Ask him if when he was a defender and the ball hit him, would he have said it was a penalty?

 

[Original # 10]

Work should be interesting tomorrow.
Speaking in the 3rd person.....
My man is faaaaarked ?

 

[Kempus]

Absolutely incredible. Best game I've watched as a Spurs fan. Amazing.

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

Lads, we're through to the Champions League semi finals!

Just had to say it again. Can't sleep.

 

[TheChosenOne]

My dad was born in 1955, so not quite old enough to remember being in the semis in 1962. I called him at full time (I was in the pub, he couldn't bear to watch so was following via BBC at home) and I was in tears.

This is a massive fucking deal.

Me too.

 

[Bobbins]

Nope.

“A goal scored directly from the hand/arm (even if accidental) and a player scoring or creating a goal-scoring opportunity after having gained possession/control of the ball from their hand/arm (even if accidental) will no longer be allowed”

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-s...ged-for-goal-scoring-situations-idUKKCN1QJ0EC

They did also point out that this was intended as a formal claification of how the rules already tend to be applied. I'm pretty confident that had the ref seen that angle, it would've been ruled out.

1. It wasn't scored directly from the hand or arm nor did it gain him control of the ball

2. That rule doesn't come into force until next season

Fuck are you even doing posting this shit, FFS

 

[GioW]

This coming in the middle of 2 week Easter hols ....no sleep no worries ?

 

[GioW]