UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [3rd - 5th October 2023]

[Tombstone]

Deserved reward for Gravenberch, probably been our best player on the pitch today

 

[Mark1989]

Well if something doesnt happen soon I'll be in danger of nodding off

There you go

 

[Rotty]

Is Onana playing for USG?

 

[Tombstone]

There you go

Even Allison getting bored look, doing Onana impressions to keep himself awake

 

[Rotty]

toulouse game was showing 2 0 on skybet for 30 mins, now only shows 1 0 , pgmol running skybet?

 

[Tombstone]

Good god this is a poor performance, so lethargic

 

[el_dazza]

This is utterly **** from villa. Tielemans has been appalling.

 

[Vandle]

Eddit Howe is really showing what a good manager who has complete buy in from the players can do when he is also given money.

Trickier times will come when they start paying more and more wages/transfer fees but so far Newcastle have played a blinder and are entirely deserving of all their success at the moment.

5 of those that played last night were involved in the side that lost 2-1 at Wolves exactly two years ago. 3 of them scored last night.
Newcastle were second bottom with 3 points and dead certs to go down. Joelinton and Willock also started and both likely would have started last night too so in effect that’s still half the team that looked like it was about to sink from the top tier with barely an ounce of a fight In it.
Howe has made some great acquisitions in the transfer market and of course the cash injection has helped but he has turned the spine of that team into one that has beaten 3 league champions inside of a week, conceding once in the process. Astonishing really.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Jota 2-0, game over.

 

[C Kent]

Scrappy as you like

 

[explicit4u]

Wow, how many times did they try and set up a Liverpool player there

 

[Tombstone]

Its a win but my goodness it was dull. Did enough to get the win and not a percent more.

 

[el_dazza]

Thank Christ for that.

 

[omnomnom]

I dont know how you lot watched that. It was on whilst i was doing other things, incredibly boring.

 

[Sui]

VAR advised the ref to review the handball but when reviewing the incident, the ref decides there was a foul on the Marseille defender first so awards the free-kick to Marseille, rather than award the penalty. It's just another example of the negative impact VAR has on football - even watching on TV it was hard to understand what was going on, imagine what those in the stadium were thinking.

Think the thing that made it confusing is the ref not just playing on from where play stopped (a Marseille corner). Was it because it was deemed a foul rather than a pen they had to take play back, they don’t normally do they?

 

[BaZ87]

Think the thing that made it confusing is the ref not just playing on from where play stopped (a Marseille corner). Was it because it was deemed a foul rather than a pen they had to take play back, they don’t normally do they?

It's a bit of a technicality. Once the ref has been advised by VAR to award a pen for handball (remember VAR stupidly doesn't look at the possible foul before that) if the ref simply decides it wasn't a handball then play would resume from where the game stopped. However the ref has decided it was a handball but that there was also a foul by Brighton prior to the handball - he therefore has to award the free-kick to Marseille because not doing so would mean he had to give the penalty.

I suppose the ref could have kept things simple by saying he didn't think it was a handball but then he'd be marked down by his assessors for doing so if it was a handball.

 

[Tombstone]

You got it, 47.50 if it wins

Damn, minutes away from the win @sigma