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They deserved the goal. We've come out in the second half, sat back and were completely passive. That said, it was certainly avoidable. Luiz should not be giving FKs needlessly there and Cech should have come out.

Is Ibra on the pitch?!

Shit ref...

This is football, of course no one deserves what he gets paid! But if anyone in football does, it's John Terry for what he's done and is doing for this club. I've seen quite a few knee-jerk reactions from football fans, but this is definitely up there with the most ridiculous.

What a pass Oscar!!

Let me try and put this nicely: GTFO!

Fucking hell!

Actually the way I heard it, it's our fans that are causing trouble. Hope those reports aren't true.

Not saying it won't work, in fact, I'm very interested to see how it pans out. But like I said, it's a gamble. If PSG give us a lot of the possession, then we'll end up without a target up top and Alex and Silva would have an easy night. But if we play deep and rely on the counter, the speed of the top four can be devastating.

Movement and runs for a striker are completely different than that for a winger. Not entirely sure Schurrle can play with back to goal. Plus, obviously, the physical aspect. Andre won't be winning any headers against Alex and Silva.

A bit of gameble by Jose. Would have proffered Torres, but let's see how Shirley does.

When a team plays that many long balls, then you can't possibly pin it on one guy. It means that the front 6 did not make nearly enough movement and did not make themselves available to receive the ball.

Well we can be sure that he's not going to Barca. *smug smile*

Nope.

Happens in the league as well. I think it is in March that previous YCs are cleared.

Seriously? I really thought they did. That's just dumb!

Don't YC get cleared in the QFs or is that in the SFs?

Wow, that's huge! I expect them to appeal, but honestly they have no case. They broke the rules big time and deserve the punishment. It seems the title is between Athletico and Real next season if this is true. PS: My initial reaction to this was:

Well that would be for a committee of referees to discuss and decide on before making the law. The point is, once you make the law, the case won't happen too often because diving would simply not be worth it anymore. In Italy, for example, they have a three match retrospective ban for deliberate hand balls. Last season, Miroslav Klose accidentally scores a goal with his hand against Napoli, the ref gives it, so Miroslav goes to the ref and tells him that he's scored it with his hand and asks him to disallow it and the ref does.

Lack flexibility and pragmatism. Somehow, he's turned the best squad in Europe into a relatively easily defended against team. Last year's Bayern were unstoppable; far from it this year.

I read someone saying that here but I checked the FIFA rules and there is no mention of it whatsoever.

Doesn't really work like that. Two wrongs don't make a right. The solution would be to have retrospective bans on dives then no one would dive.

Bayern were actually worse. Robben with a couple of his typical dives and Boateng's acting and rolling around after that Valencia challenge was worthy of an Oscar. But you'd expect that from a Pep side, not from the "ambassadors of English football"

A couple of truly great saves yesterday. The first one (not the FK) was particularly excellent. That does sound like the best solution for all parties.

I like simple pictures better, tbh. But that's because with my shitty connection, GIFs take forever to load!