Megan Rapino-going to the next round
Megan Rapino-going to the next round
Why did that need VAR? Don't the refs have the watch that tells them if the ball has gone in?
I didn't think it had crossed, but apparently it did.Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Yeah I didn't think it had crossed live either.
I also didn't think that keepers could make a double save in a shootout.
Hanoi Police v Hanoi FC just kicking off in Vietnam. Top 2 in the league, 1pt separates them,3 games left. Full house, and could get spicy.
https://live2.90phut9.live/truc-tiep...ha-noi-oIwQTi7
Somebody mansplain the rules to them.
It was mad tight on the goal line thing [you wonder why it didn't instawork, isn't it meant to?] and not helped by the fact that the illustrated ball had the variable colour pattern on it which makes it look like it's not actually entirely over the line.
A quick google seems to confirm the keeper can make limitless saves in a shootout.
Yeah, it's the taker who can't have more than one effort, and there was also that time where the 'keeper parried it miles in the air and ran off celebrating only to have the ball land and spin/bounce into the goal.
Starting the year with Havertz up front. Can't see this backfiring.
Lol Leeds
Thought Martinelli wasn't fit, yet there he is.
False 9 mate. Just needs Arteta's genius to unlock him mate.
The useless gyppo is also seemingly copying Pep's move to CBs at fullback.
I thought 'lol Carl Palmer', but it turns out to be Cole Palmer, and he turns out to be mixed-race.
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Haaland with 0.00 expected goals before going off. Fraud?
That's mad. Although he's got the swagger of a non-white, geezer's throwing his hands around and having a strop at not being passed to multiple times before that. Fucking replaced Mahrez with a regen and gifted England another world class footballer (lol at Gareth trying to use this kid), get the fuck out of here Pep.
Did he just say 'it's a Saka punch for City'?
Newcastle round off pre-season with a 4-0 win over Villareal. Harvey Barnes got two of them with Joelinton and Murphy getting the others. We take home the Sela Cup which gives me an immediate question: Do those friendly trophies have a long life? They must get melted down when, say a shirt sponsor deal expires.
Never in doubt.
The VAR who overturned that LIONESSES penalty just now is doing their final top level game. No coming back from that sort of nonsense decision.
I don't care if Harvey Barnes outscores Haaland, I will never celebrate him.
Ramsdale's commentsHe must be close to a mental breakdown soon.
What did he do? Replace ASM?
Bollocks to that. Absolutely never a penalty and the mantra of 'any contact validates an onfield decision' is just as stupid as the 'any contact's a foul' theory implemented in VAR's first season.
VAR is obviously an absolute blight on the game, but if it is to persist then eliminating 'clever play' [ie backing in to someone then falling over] might be one of its few boons.
It was a soft call on-field but the decision to overturn was absolutely scandalous. Not how VAR works.
VAR should have got involved there and sent off James.
She's gone.
With the FA now finally doing something about minutes in play and all that jazz... something else has to give on the other side.
More minutes per game, more Champions Leagues games, it's getting a bit silly.
- Do away with the League Cup (could happen)
- Less teams qualifying for Europe (will never happen)
- Do away with max squad size limits (doesn't help smaller teams)
Footballers are so thick, it's unbelievable sometimes.
Defeat on penalties inbound for the ladies to have gone through the full mens team story arc in record time.
Nobody does hero to zero better than England. Effigies at the ready.
Nigeria playing Sam Allardyce's Bolton to England's impersonation of Arsene Wenger's technical midgets circa 2010.
Come on Nigeria, amazonian beauties
What a shocking penalty.
What the fuck.
Nigeria heads have gone.
Wrong continent m8.
Come on Nigeria, amazonian beauties
Nigeria manager's haircut has cost them badly here.
Nobody was ever losing at penalties to Africans.
Have you never watched an AFCON penalty shootout? 20 penalties in a row howitzered into the top corners.
We could well shit our way to the title, the way the draw is, or at least very close to it. Australia or France in the semis will be fun.
I'm not sure why they've set up the draw so that you could play your group opponents in the semi-finals.
Aren't they all Americans though?
I am watching the UEFA draws and I almost got a headache from the explanation of how the Europa League draw works. So needlessly complicated.
Also the very first draw has 2 Ukrainian teams in it, which doesn't quite seem right. Presumably they've done away with same country restrictions?
Last edited by Adramelch; 07-08-2023 at 11:16 AM.
I'm not sure if there were ever same-country restrictions in qualifying rounds, it would just be very rare for one to come up.
The restriction was there in the previous round draw. I am assuming it's not applied here because it was create an even more complicated system.
Edit: Doing a bit more digging, it's only a thing for the playoff round specifically and was introduced when the Conference League became a thing.
Last edited by Adramelch; 07-08-2023 at 11:55 AM.
So 20 consecutive penalties not stopped?
Dunno about 20 in a row but there have been a few humdingers in the Afcon over the years.
Basically. He represents everything I hate about modern football.
There was a 22 in a row in Cameroon v Ivory Coast one year, before Eto'o missed his second kick to decide it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66426840
The Daily Mail side of me wants to shout that Mad Men 'That's what the money is for!' line at them ad infinitum. Even the Guardian side of me however is struggling to reconcile longer injury time conventions with the requirement not to show dissent towards referees.
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