UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [12th - 14th April 2022]

fez said:
The goals scored from those offside decisions beg to differ my friend :p

Just made me think that before VAR, that would have ended without a single goal for Benfica or with Liverpool potentially going out if it was a different linesman.

The AM/City game could also be a massive boon for Liverpool with De Bruyne going off injured.
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You can't score from an offside position because it's offside..
if players get caught offside the highline works, it's not rocket science
 
C Kent said:
You can't score from an offside position because it's offside..
if players get caught offside the highline works, it's not rocket science
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So well that all three of their goals were because they beat your offside trap...

I was making the simple point that under VAR all the offside decisions were correct.

The linesman flagged every goal as offside therefore without VAR they would have had 0 goals instead of 3.

Pretty much every offside call from the linesman was either marginal or wrong so it would be relatively easy to see how another linesman wouldn't have called any of them and they would have had 5 goals.

You are taking this a little too seriously. Lighten up.
 
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fez said:
So well that all three of their goals were because they beat your offside trap...

I was making the simple point that under VAR all the offside decisions were correct.

The linesman flagged every goal as offside therefore without VAR they would have had 0 goals instead of 3.

Pretty much every offside call from the linesman was either marginal or wrong so it would be relatively easy to see how another linesman wouldn't have called any of them and they would have had 5 goals.

You are taking this a little too seriously. Lighten up.
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He didn't flag their 1st? The 2 he did flag were exceptionally tight, hell the commentator were convinced their 3rd was offside even with replays, he flagged 2 incorrectly offside and got 2 correct.
 
C Kent said:
He didn't flag their 1st? The 2 he did flag were exceptionally tight, hell the commentator were convinced their 3rd was offside even with replays, he flagged 2 incorrectly offside and got 2 correct.
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You're right, he didn't flag their first, just the other 4 :p

And lets not pretend that commentators are anything but blind. I would have a very good salary if I was given a pound for every time the likes of Robbie Savage will watch a replay 5 times which clearly shows the complete opposite of what they are saying while they keep spouting their incorrect view.

The idea with VAR is that the linesman doesn't flag unless its a clear error which none of them were. It doesn't really make that much sense to have linesman now for most things as every goal is checked via VAR anyway.

But as I said, it was just a bit of a fun observation that pre-VAR that could have been 3-0 Liverpool or 5-3 Benfica. Thats pretty uncommon!
 
fez said:
The idea with VAR is that the linesman doesn't flag unless its a clear error which none of them were.
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This is simply not true. Lino's have to make decisions as if there was no VAR - they just only raise their flag after the attack has finished, so that the attacker has the chance to put the ball in the net and allow VAR to check whether it was on or off. This process was carried out exactly as it should have been yesterday.

Their two 'goals' which were correctly ruled offside were fairly clearly offside too.
 
BaZ87 said:
This is simply not true. Lino's have to make decisions as if there was no VAR - they just only raise their flag after the attack has finished, so that the attacker has the chance to put the ball in the net and allow VAR to check whether it was on or off. This process was carried out exactly as it should have been yesterday.

Their two 'goals' which were correctly ruled offside were fairly clearly offside too.
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Fair enough on the first point but I disagree on the second.
 
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