Isn't the point of VAR to correct all of that nonsense? If the ball was out, player was offside and another player also fouled.. shouldn't that matter? Or is it only for showing if the ball went over the line?
It’s pretty wild to see play out. I’ve heard it called anti-positional, a-positional, and anti-Pep. It looks like that great Napoli team from last season on crack. It kinda reminds me of playing pickup indoor soccer where you can start at right back and end up playing forward in the same move. Except on a full field. Marcelo, who we all know as a great left back, spent a lot of time playing more or less right winger.
Well, they should be able to look at the action near the goalmouth and tell in about 10 seconds that the goal shouldn't stand because (a) it was an incontrovertible foul and (b) it hit Joelinton's arm as well. So that is two clear reasons to disallow the goal that anybody with eyes and half a brain can understand even without checking to see whether it was out-of-bounds or offside.
And S04 get a late winner. I've had worse sporting weekends. Many, many of them lately.
On the other hand, the one week where the gap is shorter is a godsend for European NFL fans.
That was a wonderful thing, until I watched the 49ers-Bengals game.
-- happy for Schalke though!
Start a blog called “Are You Kitting Me?!?”
Wasn’t suggesting it should have been. Just would have been nice to see a replay in real time.
I was listening to one of the Everton podcasts yesterday. One of the old timers was predicting a tough time of it for LFC today. Evidently back in the day Luton was a banana skin club for Liverpool.
the commentators brought up this match from October 1986 - Liverpool came to Luton as reigning league champs & got run out of the stadium 4-1. Daglish was breaking in as player manager still, but Pool would go on to win the double by end of season. Banana peel indeed.
But like announcers said, there were acres of space.
