And the handball we got penalised for also came off the arm of PSG defender too…. But took seconds to make a call
Dalianyimam on
Neither this or the Miley one were pens for me, but if you give one you have to give the other
yanksareawful on
Neither of them are imo
Nworbfmail on
It should have been based on the penalty given. I don’t think any of the handball incidents were deliberate, there is no time for the players to react to any of them. But after giving one after 3 minutes but then ignoring it for the rest of the game is just weird.
CartoonistConsistent on
Either the most obvious attempt at match fixing by uefa to get the team they wanted through, or a match official so incompetent he should never ref in Europe again. It’s one or the other because there is no reasonable explanation of such a bad performance.
RepublicWarm2383 on
I think what makes this one more of a pen for me is it’s a direct shot on goal and could ultimately have prevented a goal (notwithstanding that there’s a keeper there to save it)
I know that’s not how the rules work (maybe) but if you get sent off for denying clear goal scoring opportunity then this handball denies a clear goal scoring opportunity and warrants a penalty, despite not being g deliberate.
The ref thought Miley deliberately swiped at the ball which by definition is a pen but the reality is he wasn’t looking at the ball and his arm is already in a natural running position before the ball gets to it. Anyone with a basic grasp of footy knows that. Also if at the other end Barcola scores it would have been disallowed because the ball came off his hand.
dragonite__ on
It’s not a penalty but neither was Mileys
mags_bags_slags on
Did they even check this for a moment?? Extremely suspect refereeing
tarkaliotta on
Think this was one of those games where the ref and VAR just started to hide from making big calls after the Miley handball.
Expect the ref and VAR would’ve recognised how absurd and unfair it was, even if it was technically the right call under the braindead Champions League reffing policies. Probably got a bit shit up after it happened in the first minute too.
Pope’s save was natural justice, probably felt like they got a big let off.
LastThing5383 on
It’s a genuine disgrace, even mcmannaman on comms was livid. Mileys took a deflection and was bouncing away from goal. This one is directly stopping a goalbound shot, and they cleared it after matter of seconds. Also Elanga getting a yellow because the ref looked at the psg player rolling around when the foul was on and already given on elanga. If we didn’t know how incompetent refs are, I’d be calling it corrupt.
rabit71 on
It’s not a pen.
Also, I get that people harp on about “we want consistency” but we want consistently RIGHT decisions. It’s mad to me to expect a referee to intentionally even up a game by making a bad call just because he made a mistake earlier, that’s way more scary (and corrupt) than just accepting that he made a mistake and doing better in the future.
When did we move away from “two wrongs don’t make a right”?
jamisram on
If I had £1 for each time Newcastle were denied a famous win at Paris for outrageous penalty decisions I’d have £2, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
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Because only one team payed the ref
And the handball we got penalised for also came off the arm of PSG defender too…. But took seconds to make a call
Neither this or the Miley one were pens for me, but if you give one you have to give the other
Neither of them are imo
It should have been based on the penalty given. I don’t think any of the handball incidents were deliberate, there is no time for the players to react to any of them. But after giving one after 3 minutes but then ignoring it for the rest of the game is just weird.
Either the most obvious attempt at match fixing by uefa to get the team they wanted through, or a match official so incompetent he should never ref in Europe again. It’s one or the other because there is no reasonable explanation of such a bad performance.
I think what makes this one more of a pen for me is it’s a direct shot on goal and could ultimately have prevented a goal (notwithstanding that there’s a keeper there to save it)
I know that’s not how the rules work (maybe) but if you get sent off for denying clear goal scoring opportunity then this handball denies a clear goal scoring opportunity and warrants a penalty, despite not being g deliberate.
The ref thought Miley deliberately swiped at the ball which by definition is a pen but the reality is he wasn’t looking at the ball and his arm is already in a natural running position before the ball gets to it. Anyone with a basic grasp of footy knows that. Also if at the other end Barcola scores it would have been disallowed because the ball came off his hand.
It’s not a penalty but neither was Mileys
Did they even check this for a moment?? Extremely suspect refereeing
Think this was one of those games where the ref and VAR just started to hide from making big calls after the Miley handball.
Expect the ref and VAR would’ve recognised how absurd and unfair it was, even if it was technically the right call under the braindead Champions League reffing policies. Probably got a bit shit up after it happened in the first minute too.
Pope’s save was natural justice, probably felt like they got a big let off.
It’s a genuine disgrace, even mcmannaman on comms was livid. Mileys took a deflection and was bouncing away from goal. This one is directly stopping a goalbound shot, and they cleared it after matter of seconds. Also Elanga getting a yellow because the ref looked at the psg player rolling around when the foul was on and already given on elanga. If we didn’t know how incompetent refs are, I’d be calling it corrupt.
It’s not a pen.
Also, I get that people harp on about “we want consistency” but we want consistently RIGHT decisions. It’s mad to me to expect a referee to intentionally even up a game by making a bad call just because he made a mistake earlier, that’s way more scary (and corrupt) than just accepting that he made a mistake and doing better in the future.
When did we move away from “two wrongs don’t make a right”?
If I had £1 for each time Newcastle were denied a famous win at Paris for outrageous penalty decisions I’d have £2, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice