Today's Football 2018-19 Season

[Mozza1987]

No mate.

Gary Lineker was sure there was no handball.

And the qualified ref giving "expert" advice thought it had came off his knee.

Why wasn't the ref shown this angle. Still unconvinced with var to be honest.

 

[blue to the bone]

Which has nothing to do whatsoever with judging if it was a foul or not, its you judging it on what you think the law should be , not what it is.

Go and read the law and the guidelines issued regarding handball and you'll see why it wasn't given, and why VAR was not 100% wrong to do so.

You explain to me so why United got a penalty v PSG. Var gave that too

 

[goodisonopheliac]

Then we all watch football for the wrong reasons. City are a plastic scumbag of a club owned by a family that abuses people to gain their riches, it's been shown they cooked the book to get a massive financial boost yet nothing has been done about it. They are everything every fan of a traditional club should hate, they represent nothing but money, same as PSG.

We all know how dirty the rats are across the park and people like to crow about their glorious history whilst leaving out the horrendous parts. We get to see more than most the lows they will go to, to defend events of the past. BUT People don't mind City winning the league because they are nothing but what you should never ever do is like them. [Poor language removed] them, [Poor language removed] the scumbags who own them and [Poor language removed] whoever it is that let's them sponsor themselves to enable the crazy spending.

I live in Manchester and my local team are Man United, who I despise. I don't like the fact City bought their way to the top, but I'd rather have them win the league than Liverpool.

Tbh all Big 6 teams are rotten to the core except Spurs.

 

[Khalekan]

On the plus side, the RS now have more matches to play before the league season ends than City have.....

 

[Death]

So var has done nothing but a good job that exposing officialls as clueless? Which we knew that beforehand

 

[mmmmsnouts]

So if a defending player deflects it when a pass goes through and the forward was offside when the pass was made, do they suddenly become onside? As I don't see the difference.

No. The defender has to deliberately play the ball (a backpass) to make offside not apply. Deflections don’t change the offside rule.

 

[blue to the bone]

Which has nothing to do whatsoever with judging if it was a foul or not, its you judging it on what you think the law should be , not what it is.

Go and read the law and the guidelines issued regarding handball and you'll see why it wasn't given, and why VAR was not 100% wrong to do so.

And how can you say llorente didnt touch it deliberately.. only he knows that.

 

[RomanReigns]

liverpool had 5 shots on target and scored 4

are they potentially the most clinical side at the moment?

 

[EFCPaul]

It's hard to lift yourself from that.

I don't really agree with that argument you've put forward. Winning breeds winning. Losing is never good.

Maybe so with most teams but not Guardiola's mate, he's the mentally strongest manager around. Every club he's ever been at, his teams have always roared back strongly after any heartbreaking losses. The did it last year after the RS knocked them out, they went on to win the PL with record goals and points, in 2015 with Bayern when Atletico knocked them out in the semis they carried on to win the title and beat Dortmund in the cup final as well. Even back in 2011 when Real Madrid beat his Barca side them in ET of the Copa Del Rey final, days later they smashed them in the CL and went on to lift a double.

He won't let City collapse, no way.

 

[Mozza1987]

No. The defender has to deliberately play the ball (a backpass) to make offside not apply. Deflections don’t change the offside rule.

So why was that disallowed then?

 

[Saint Domingo]

On the plus side, the RS now have more matches to play before the league season ends than City have.....

Doesn’t seem to matter for them. They just don’t tire. Juiced up to the max. The best teams in Europe have to rotate but Liverpool play the same 11 every game without any dip over an entire season.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

It will be interesting how the manner of that defeat tonight effects City for the next few games.

 

[goodisonopheliac]

City have had injuries to deal with. How the hell do Liverpool manage not to have any of their squad injured?

 

[dannyboy]

Doesn’t seem to matter for them. They just don’t tire. Juiced up to the max. The best teams in Europe have to rotate but Liverpool play the same 11 every game without any dip over an entire season.

I am still hoping and praying there is one random game like Sunday against Cardiff where they´re completely off the ball.

Was it Lineker who lost his boots before playing away at Oxford in ´86? Someone break into Salah´s and set his on fire.

 

[MarkHollis]

Doesn’t seem to matter for them. They just don’t tire. Juiced up to the max. The best teams in Europe have to rotate but Liverpool play the same 11 every game without any dip over an entire season.

Sadly their forwards are in their best years, unlike say Agüero or Fernandinho who breaks every other month and has to be carefully managed