Champions League QFs (11th - 19th April)

Remember when Bayern players came over to Arsenal fans and taunted them? Bayern got what they deserve. Club full of c*nts that are unlikeable.
Kroos brought his child onto the pitch at the end of the game and the Bayern away fans were hurling profanities and insults at him and his family.

So glad to see the back of such a cvntish club
 
Ancelotti says the referee was very poor. Two offisde goals and the red against Vidal, well I guess he is right.

Bayern was leading 3:2 against Real (11 vs 11 men minutes).

The better team is out.
 
“When Madrid got scared, the referee began his show. This robbery can’t happen in the Champions League, we felt it a lot and you start to wonder a bit. When [referees] embarrass you like that, it’s really hard to take. It makes you very angry” – Vidal
 
Both of Real's fullbacks were excellent tonight and I thought Hummels and Boateng were both very good for Bayern. The game swung on a couple of big calls but Ronaldo bagging 5 over 2 legs against this Bayern side is impressive, 41 hat-tricks and 395 goals for Real Madrid, crazy numbers.
 
We had 52 shots over both legs and 25 of those on target vs 31 and 13.
Completely and utterly meaningless statistic

Yeah, Bayern has a better goalkeeper. So what? The goalkeeper is a part of the team. :lol:

Yup we definitely got out played, especially with Vidal, who should of been sent of in the 48th minute as opposed to the 84th. Or the offside by Lewa which would of ended the match in regulation time with a win to us. Or the non-penalty Bayern got in the first leg that would of seen us out of the UCL had Vidal converted it.
And Casemiro should have been sent off with Vidal before the 60th minute. Lewandowski was also onside and 1-on-1 with Navas in another opportunity that the linesman missed.
 
I was about to mention the first leg had absolute horrid officiating as well.

Then in this leg Vidal should of been sent off in the 48th minute when he fouled Isco across the achilles, a full 36 minutes! before his actual red card. Lewa was offside so in regulation it should of been Real Madrid going through. Luckily the football Gods were kinder to us than PSG who got fecked left, right and sideways by the refs and in the end the fair result was made. But if Vidal had made that penalty (that wasn't a pen) in the first leg we would be out of the UCL right now.

They really need video playback in the background to help these refs. If a foul should of been a yellow or not have it quickly reviewed in the background and the yellow given later on in the play if need be or rescinded. Have all goals and penalties reviewed and lets stop with all this bs.

Edit: Also quickly how fecking useless are those extra refs behind the goal line, never seen them do anything remotely right.

I fully agree with you, but Casemiro never should have finished this game as well...But I mean that is football , small things often decides games between evenly matched teams.
 
“When Madrid got scared, the referee began his show. This robbery can’t happen in the Champions League, we felt it a lot and you start to wonder a bit. When [referees] embarrass you like that, it’s really hard to take. It makes you very angry” – Vidal
Go home Vidal. This guy has at least 1 leg breaking challenge in every game. Couldn't have happened to a nicer team.
 
“When Madrid got scared, the referee began his show. This robbery can’t happen in the Champions League, we felt it a lot and you start to wonder a bit. When [referees] embarrass you like that, it’s really hard to take. It makes you very angry” – Vidal
Ironically, this is coming from a player who missed a penalty that should have never been given in the first place and should have been sent off about 30 minutes earlier. Vidal is the last player who should say anything about the ref.
 
The referee for the Bayern vs Real Madrid game (Viktor Kassai):

  • Refereed the 2011 Champions League Final (Man Utd vs Barca)
  • Was the first referee to award a penalty after viewing a video replay (at the 2016 FIFA Club World Cup)
 
Look on Youtube for Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich 4-2 Post Match Analysis 18/4/2017.

So very sad what happened today.
 
Completely and utterly meaningless statistic

Yeah, Bayern has a better goalkeeper. So what? The goalkeeper is a part of the team. :lol:


And Casemiro should have been sent off with Vidal before the 60th minute. Lewandowski was also onside and 1-on-1 with Navas in another opportunity that the linesman missed.

yes Lewy was onside, but there was a situation where Ronaldo was onside as well.
 
No white (wum) text? No? Sure?
We had one undeserved penalty (the one on Neymar was stonewall), and PSG had a penalty denied. That's as far as bad refereeing decisions go.

Casemiro should have been sent off at least 3 times. Vidal won the ball and got sent off. Lewandowski was flagged offside but was clearly onside. Ronaldo was offside.
 
We had one undeserved penalty (the one on Neymar was stonewall), and PSG had a penalty denied. That's as far as bad refereeing decisions go.

How about that second yellow for Pique that ended up being a yellow card for Cavani.

You don't remember that one? :lol:

Or Neymar kicking Marquinhos for a straight red but nothing was given. I guess you didn't see that either..

Our game can be worse then that shit show only in Pique's head, which is fine. It would be worrying if it was any different.
 
Vidal's red was ridiculous, two of Ronaldo's goals were offside (one absolutely blatant) and Casemiro given free reign to kick and dive his way through the 120 minutes without punishment.

Too many matches are being decided by outside factors when it should be the players. It needs to stop.
 
We had one undeserved penalty (the one on Neymar was stonewall), and PSG had a penalty denied. That's as far as bad refereeing decisions go.

Casemiro should have been sent off at least 3 times. Vidal won the ball and got sent off. Lewandowski was flagged offside but was clearly onside. Ronaldo was offside.
That "undeserved" penalty equals a second yellow to Suarez?

Call me old fashioned but kicking a defender in the head while he's on the floor isn't "stonewall".

PSG "denied" penalty equals a red for Masch?

The Pique tackle from behind?

Vidal should have already been sent off?

(Totally agree Casemiro should have gone though).
 
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Neuer has fractured his left foot directly prior to the 2:3 from CR7...
 
That "undeserved" penalty equals a second yellow to Suarez?

Call me old fashioned but kicking a defender in the head while he's on the floor isn't "stonewall".

PSG "denied" penalty equals a red for Masch?

The Pique tackle from behind?

Vidal should have already been sent off?

(Totally agree Casemiro should have gone though).


Gotta say it. I'm over Real Madrid. They bore the pants off me.

I'd rarther watch Wrexham. And I mean that.
 
Some awful decisions. Not sure we can blame officials since it seems to happen so frequently. They have so little time to make huge decisions with tens of thousands screaming at them. Time for videos for yellows, reds, pens and goals at the very least.
 
Vidal would have been sent off rightfully sooner or later (he did enough also before the wrong second booking), no way we would have ended this match with 11 players with him playing. Everybody could see that, Carlo needed to pull him off just minutes earlier. After 75 mins it was madness to still have him on the pitch.

It seems like he doesn't give half a feck if he's playing on a yellow. I saw him the 2015 CL final against Juventus as well, and he was playing like a mad man then as well after getting booked in the first half. Thought he was going to go off.
 


A bit one sided but yes, the word 'scandal' sums it up pretty much.

Just reminded me of Real vs Bayern in 2012 when Real was also massively favoured ind the 2nd leg. Ronaldo scored 2 in the first half, the first was a ridiculous penalty when Alabas arm got shot while he was down and he used it to stand up and the 2nd goal was just another offside goal. In the end Bayern went through in penalties but still ridiculous. This time it was much much worse though.
 
What did Carlo do now?
I think he's blaming him for the red card because he didn't sub Vidal. Yet, in Carlo's defence, we despereately needed all three subs for other players. Ribery, Robben, Lahm, and Alonso are all old, Hummels, Boateng and Lewandowski played injured. To sub off Vidal would mean wasting a substitution on a player who should be able to play the complete match. At least that's what I believe to be Carlo's reasoning.
Vidal has only himself to blame. He wasn't exposed due to Carlo's tactics or anything like that. He was just stupid. Carlo trusted him to be able to survive the match, Vidal's stupidity failed him. Shit Happens. Personally, I don't blame Ancelotti here. But I can understand where @GhastlyHun is coming from.
 
Yes, Bayern was clearly disadvantaged by the ref. As was Leicester against Atletico, as was Paris against Barcelona. Happens in the vast majority of games lately. Especially if Spanish teams are involved
 
Lots of conspiracy theories, sure we need technologies to help the referees, but to read posts here complaining that the Spanish teams only win because they are helped is too much for me.

Truth of the matter is, sure Bayern has more to complain over 2 legs than Madrid, but Spanish teams win more because they play more, if people posting here really believe they only win because they cheat or are helped, I don't understand why are they always wanting to bring players and coaches from there if they are all so bad.

By the way, the team I like more in Spain is Bilbao, so I do not feel I am biased towards Madrid or Barcelona, since I am not even spanish.

Bring on the Video Ref to help, and to clean up these conspiracies.
 
Yes, Bayern was clearly disadvantaged by the ref. As was Leicester against Atletico, as was Paris against Barcelona. Happens in the vast majority of games lately. Especially if Spanish teams are involved
Atleti won fair and square, I don't know where Leicester deserved to win, their football looked more something from the 80's than from this century.
 
Lots of conspiracy theories, sure we need technologies to help the referees, but to read posts here complaining that the Spanish teams only win because they are helped is too much for me.

Truth of the matter is, sure Bayern has more to complain over 2 legs than Madrid, but Spanish teams win more because they play more, if people posting here really believe they only win because they cheat or are helped, I don't understand why are they always wanting to bring players and coaches from there if they are all so bad.

By the way, the team I like more in Spain is Bilbao, so I do not feel I am biased towards Madrid or Barcelona, since I am not even spanish.

Bring on the Video Ref to help, and to clean up these conspiracies.
Those theories are bullshit anyway. If Vidal converts the pen in the first leg, we likely go through to the next round by virtue of one of the most ridiculus penalties ever. If Vidal converts, there would not have been any discussion about the stuff from today and Real fans would complain about the bias against them.
Everybody is on the wrong side of those decisions once in a while. It happens. Until the refs don't get any technological help it will remain this way. The game is simply too fast to be refereed by humans. There is just no way a game like today, or a tie like this one remains without big mistakes. Refs are human. Humans are imperfect. They screw up from time to time. Today they were especially horrible. Annoying, but there's nothing you can do about it, other than accepting that humans are imperfect creatures prone to mistakes.
 
Haven't seen much of the discussion, but has Robben's penalty been scrutinised much? If nothing else, it was ridiculously dramatic/theatrical from Robben.

I also saw a comparison to the Chelsea v Barca debacle, but I don't think it was that bad at all. Madrid certainly had the rub of the green, but in my opinion it was hardly scandalous.
 
I also saw a comparison to the Chelsea v Barca debacle, but I don't think it was that bad at all. Madrid certainly had the rub of the green, but in my opinion it was hardly scandalous.
It was nowhere near that bad. Wasn't even as bad as Paris Barca in my opinion.
It was basically a yellow-red that was not a foul, and one offside goal.
 
Those theories are bullshit anyway. If Vidal converts the pen in the first leg, we likely go through to the next round by virtue of one of the most ridiculus penalties ever. If Vidal converts, there would not have been any discussion about the stuff from today and Real fans would complain about the bias against them.
Everybody is on the wrong side of those decisions once in a while. It happens. Until the refs don't get any technological help it will remain this way. The game is simply too fast to be refereed by humans. There is just no way a game like today, or a tie like this one remains without big mistakes. Refs are human. Humans are imperfect. They screw up from time to time. Today they were especially horrible. Annoying, but there's nothing you can do about it, other than accepting that humans are imperfect creatures prone to mistakes.
That does not mean Bayern was by far the most affected team in the 2 legs, the only thing I cannot agree is reading behind that Spanish teams win more because they cheat.

To be fair I don't know if the Video Ref will solve all the problems, but surely at Uefa competitions and World Cups needs to be implemented to reduce the level of errors, it would be interesting to see if it was applied today how they would judge the penalty on Robben, the own goal of Ramos, if there was an offside by Lewa, the red card, and the second and third goal by Ronaldo.

What I mean is that with so many doubts, even if they have videos to judge there will always be errors in judgement, so I would be moderately confident that all decisions are going to be well judged.
 
Haven't seen much of the discussion, but has Robben's penalty been scrutinised much? If nothing else, it was ridiculously dramatic/theatrical from Robben.

I also saw a comparison to the Chelsea v Barca debacle, but I don't think it was that bad at all. Madrid certainly had the rub of the green, but in my opinion it was hardly scandalous.

Not many games can be as bad as Chelsea-Barca, otherwise we'd all be up in arms every year.

How Casemiro avoided getting sent off I don't understand. Vidal got the ball on the tackle where he was sent off for as well.
 
Just saw some of the decisions. Couldn't have happened to a better team. I have zero sympathy for Bayern. Anyone who has needs to remember how that cnut Ribery got Rafael sent off which turned the tie on its head.
 
We lost that tie in the first leg. A week ago, Bayern didn't really play, we were nervous and unfocussed, even before Martinez' sendoff. It speaks about Reals quality that we were up until then - Real is by no means an unbeatable team. We almost led them to penalties today with 10 vs. 12.
So I'm gutted, but only to a small part because of the shocking refereeing. Ancelotti may be a good moderator of stars, but he can't install that "They may be Real, but we are Bayern" feeling.

Do you think his posiiton is in jeopardy? IMO he won at Bernabeu, the ref changed the game.
 
Kroos brought his child onto the pitch at the end of the game and the Bayern away fans were hurling profanities and insults at him and his family.

So glad to see the back of such a cvntish club

You're equating some alleged bad behaviour from fans with a club? Hmmm....