UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [9th - 11th December 2025]

[da_mic_1530]

Never a pen

 

[AStaley]

Not complaining, that was likely the only way we were scoring, but that was an awful penalty decision.

 

[fez]

Thats an awful decison to give that. Thats a classis. That would result in 3 penalties and 4 fouls on defenders at every set piece if you want to give those.

 

[manic111]

That’s an insanely bad decision lmao

That said, don’t pull shirts. As dumb as Konate vs leeds

Yeah kind of my feeling. It's a soft penalty, but easily avoided - don't grab a fistful of shirt in the penalty box

 

[omnomnom]

I mean, the pull arguably stops him moving towards the ball.

But it's super soft.

Your first sentence is exactly why its a penalty lol.

 

[Nate75]

Soft as **** pen lol

But hey at least something happened in the game at last!

 

[scarps]

Thats an awful decison to give that. Thats a classis. That would result in 3 penalties and 4 fouls on defenders at every set piece if you want to give those.

Normally does result in that outcome in European games, though by their handball rules the first goal should have stood.

Same as the PL, refs have their own rule books

 

[omnomnom]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1998511666493837693

Yea terrible decision, should be allowed to physically take the shirt off his back before its given as a foul tbh.

 

[fez]

Yeah kind of my feeling. It's a soft penalty, but easily avoided - don't grab a fistful of shirt in the penalty box

Like all these things though, you can't say "don't grab a handful of shirt" whilst for the other 89 minutes thats been absolutely fine. Either you punish them all or you only punish the egregious ones. That wasn't egregious.

 

[Stumble Bum]

Of course it's a pen. Why are people acting like you can just do blatant shirt pulling in the box now?

 

[manic111]

Like all these things though, you can't say "don't grab a handful of shirt" whilst for the other 89 minutes thats been absolutely fine. Either you punish them all or you only punish the egregious ones. That wasn't egregious.

Yeah I'm largely with you. All I'm saying is that if you do it, you run a risk.

Obviously the officiating needs improvement, my point is more about the decision of the defender.

 

[scarps]

Oh look, ref just gave a foul for another shirt pull

 

[manic111]

I think that's pretty good to be honest. We managed the game well, looked solid, and brought on a couple of attacking changes later on who made a difference.

If we were a team in form, people would be saying great game management and a good performance.

 

[Robbo]

I've still never seen Lautaro Martinez play well.

 

[scarps]

I've still never seen Lautaro Martinez play well.

Me too. He's always really bad too.

 

[omnomnom]

Like all these things though, you can't say "don't grab a handful of shirt" whilst for the other 89 minutes thats been absolutely fine. Either you punish them all or you only punish the egregious ones. That wasn't egregious.

What do you think should happen before its a foul? What bar are we using for "egregious"?

Its such an obvious penalty lol.

 

[Tombstone]

I've still never seen Lautaro Martinez play well.

Likewise. Always seems to be a fuss about him but I cant think of any time that I've seen him play and thought this guy looks quality

 

[scarps]

Good win away at a team that hasn't lost at home in European for ages, hardly let any goals in and always score at home.

A slow plodding performance but Inter plodded more, so a decent much needed result

 

[fez]

What do you think should happen before its a foul? What bar are we using for "egregious"?

Its such an obvious penalty lol.

When the player is directly impeded from going on goal. Not when hes got his back to the goal, defenders everywhere and he goes down after the pulling stops.

What do you think should happen during the shirt pulling that goes on at every set piece in the box? Penalties or free kicks?

 

[manic111]

I always enjoy seeing how far Clarence Seedorf has got on his journey to becoming Lister from Red Dwarf