UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [6th - 8th April 2021]

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Champions League QF Leg 1:

Europa League QF Leg 1:

TV Coverage:

BT Sport Coverage

 

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If Real sort out their play in the final third this could get nasty.

TAA skinned there.

 

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Ball over the top, you'd think they'd learn by now.

Great take down and finish though!

 

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Ederson lucky there, should be 1-1!

 

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Was that subject to a VAR check? Looked a legit goal to me.

Whistle went for a foul before Bellingham scored so they couldn't refer to VAR.

 

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There's the downside to Thiago

 

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This could've easily been another Villa if they had their finishing boots on, suicidal defending from pool.

 

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Thats the least Dortmund deserve from this.

 

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Surely there's been the occasional CL or Euro game that's been stopped by a ref after after play has continued in the past two years!?
VAR should have been in his ear within a few seconds and asked him to consider reviewing the footage.

The VAR protocols section on UEFA's site seems to back this up :-



The first category being goal or no goal btw. I also can't find any mention of any timescale requirements for VAR to get the information to a ref...although you'd hope that ASAP would be assumed.

The issue is that play did not continue in this occasion, the ref blew before the goal was scored. This is why linesmen have been told to wait with their flags, so if a goal is scored VAR is able to go back and check it.