Arena "The Beautiful Game" - The Official JCC Football (Soccer) Thread.

Speaking of this…

 

Truly, anyone can beat anyone (TM).

 

That's what makes the PL great.
The officiating....not so much

 

Casemiro - Red was dubious. Hit the ball first and player as a bounce off, is tenuous.
I can see why some would see it as probably fair BUT my god it was tenuous and I have seen more overturned than given.

Yellow was IMO the right decision but I understand why it was incorrectly given as a red.

Considering the farce of UK punditry this week, and yet we still managed to give out an utter farce of decision making

 

Well that was much closer to the result I expected during the first leg so, um…

Forza Napoli?

 

There were worse tackles in the Chelsea-Leicester game that went unpunished, by the same referee (he was the VAR official during the United game).
Likewise with penalties, if Liverpool get one because a player was using his arms to jump and happened to block the attempt on goal, United should have had a penalty

Plus Garnacho is now injured for weeks due to another scissor tackle, the same tackle that has sidelined Eriksen until April & VDB for the season.
Officials should be looking at that more instead of being reactionary every time a player shows their studs doing a tackle.

Refs just aren't enforcing decisions consistently, which means some teams are at a disadvantage in losing a player for 4 games (despite already having few midfielders available) while others lose no-one.

 

Lol @ Arsenal

Gone Mobile

 

Wait. You think players should be banned based upon how long the opposing player played is out injured? That’s whacky, even for you. And if it happened, Pickford would never play again, why give Everton that advantage?

 

Mark my words, they will somehow manage to win the league and still figure out a way for us to post lol @ Arsenal on the final day of the season.

 

Sevilla are always tough in the EL

Man City Vs Bayern should be great

 

Crystal Palace have Sacked Vieira.

Always risky sacking a manager this close to the end of the season when you're struggling. God knows who they'll replace him with.

 

The list of managers Brendan Rodgers has outlasted is getting ridiculous. Clearly they’re all lacking in character, okay, not enough hard work and intensity, okay.

 

The rumour is Hodgson, for some reason

 

The kind of tirade that screams “Yeah I’m heading to Juventus regardless but have you seen my early termination compensation?”

Edit: Wait, Arsenal are leading the league, they went up 3-0 against Palace and just conceded one in the second half…

 

Mental scenes at Old Trafford

Willian rightly sent off for a great save. Mitrovic then follows as a result of pushing the ref, verbals and aggressively leaning in on the ref.

United not at the races and a loss would have been the right result prior to the penalty. Fulham 2-1 down within seconds of the restart

 

Leverkusen trying to sucker me back in again

 

Not sure why the manager and Mitrovic thought it was worth dying over, that was the sort of handball that was so obvious that Man City get away with it every other week.

 

Almost as good as Soucek's save against Chelsea last month