'Son la Hostia' E02 - No Saben Empatar :: The Other Teams' Thread [R]

I hate AS. But I always, masochistically I guess , read it. Alfredo Relaño(AS director), well I don't normally share his views, but today I share and understand where he's coming from:
http://www.as.com/opinion/articulo/madrid-despues-mourinho/20120327dasdaiopi_1/Tes

 

Both Benzema and Ronaldo looked at the ground after their misses. Field looks perfect to me...

 

Ailton makes 3-4 Madrid defenders look like fools. Only stopped with a foul.

 

APOEL very well organized at the back. I think I've only seen 3 breakdowns in the back in the whole game.

 

Not really realistic to expect APOEL to have a chance even if they held on to a 0 x 0 today. But it's fun to see Madrid struggle specially when they probably expect to just roll over a team.

 

Still time for a Apoel FK near the area in the final minutes.

 

A very belabored 0-3 for LPB. They were lucky Apoel gave them so much respect and had no gameplan other than to defend.

Still, LPB's legs look heavy and I can't wait til their visit to Osasuna...

 

Nice way to work that reference in there. I wonder what Drogba really thinks about that call

Looks like Benfica had a couple of really good opportunities to score.

 

I bet Chelski folks only remember the ones that didn't go their way, like a week ago when a Zabaleta shot hit Essien on the arm, ref called it, and Kun equalized from the spot.

It's kinda why I don't make such a big deal about the ones that don't go our way (e.g. at Espanyol this season, or Ballack at Stamford Bridge in '09), or that LPB get away with (Higuain at Valencia, Ramos vs. Betis). There's always going to be some we get away with too (Pique and Eto'o at Stamford Bridge).

I will maintain, though, that in the infamous Stamford Bridge game Ovrebo was at least consistent in his interpretation of the handball rule, always not calling unintentional ball-to-hand incidents. Did I say infamous? Oh, I meant awesome.

 

I wish FIFA would make that rule more clear. It's way too open for interpretation and is the reason why we have all of these conspiracy theories.
Some commentators mention that it's a PK even if it's unintentional if your arm is in an unnatural position. I don't know where they get that from because I doubt that is in the rule book.

There is no way neither the ref nor the linesmen missed Terry's handball today. It was way too obvious. Therefore they interpreted it as being not intentional hand ball. But many other refs, as we've seen it, will give that PK every single time.

It's an easy to come up with a consistent rule for this because there are many different situations where a ball gets handled in the box. But FIFA should really try to do something about it. It would make a really good topic for discussion on these boards.

 

fans of German regional side FC Magdeburg decided to take a constructive and creative approach to their team's recent goal drought... pretty hilarious:



http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...-show-goal-shy-team-where-goal-095626049.html