It was after the aloted three minutes. He could have blown the whistle before the attack even started as that was when time was up.
Official – Swedish Referee Glenn Nyberg To Be In Charge Of Man City Vs Inter Milan Champions League Showdown - Yahoo Sports
Champions League: who is Milan vs Liverpool referee Eskas - Yahoo Sports Norwegian referee Espen Eskas will officiate Milan’s Champions League debut against Liverpool on Tuesday at the San Siro. UEFA have confirmed the appointment of the 36-year-old, who has a relatively short experience in the major European competition, having officiated only four Champions League matches so far.
Not sure why we are doing one-off news articles about single matches here now. There interest has seemed to wane on appointments here, but if it's still existent all the appointments are here in full, a few days ahead of time: https://law5-theref.blogspot.com/2024/09/champions-league-202425-referee.html https://law5-theref.blogspot.com/2024/09/champions-league-202425-referee_16.html https://law5-theref.blogspot.com/2024/09/champions-league-202425-referee_17.html
Looking forward to Walsh's debut. He handled the 2024 Scottish Cup final (Celtic v Rangers) beautifully. Definitely Scotland's #1.
I think the final few weeks of the League Phase will be amazing but I'm struggling to care about MD 1 this year.
I think it's all going to be a giant mess and soccer administrators don't seem to understand the beauty of the sport and the Champions League. They are all just killing the players and the sports with its greed. It's never enough. Profits always have to grow and we have to continue to expand. All those slogs of games to eliminate 12 teams. Slogs of group stage matches in brutal American summers to eliminate 16 teams out of 48. The appeal of the Champions League is its rarity. It's that fact that we don't get Liverpool vs. AC Milan every year and we only get when it truly matters. You get AC Milan vs. Liverpool every year in a meaningless group stage than it leases it's sense of anticipation.
Wow. Bayer Leverkusen won't be happy with the referee in the confrontation with Feyenoord. The Italian referee, Davide Massa, got boatloads of criticism from Germany after the Nations League match against the Orange Squad.
There are a total of 5 Germans in the squad with one being a back-up goal keeper. Of the 4 in the starting 11 (I'm assuming), only 2 are even German national team regulars who play. No one will care.
Barcelona are down to 10 men in the 10th minute after Eric Garcia gets a straight red 😳 pic.twitter.com/TMYu4u0uTU— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) September 19, 2024 10 minute red card for DOGSO to Barcelona today and no discussion. Yeah. This forum is on the backend or the new Champions League format has managed to decrease interest even more in the group stage. Great call in my opinion and I think there are many that would say it isn't because the "attacker didn't have control of the ball" or some other semantics. I don't think this is given in MLS.
No discussion on the merits of this because I didn't see it there are just too many games to watch Leagues, national cup tournaments, continental cup tournaments and we didn't even start on the international tournaments. For those of us who have kids who play now, whatever free time we have is spent at their games. Oh, yes, I referee sometimes too. I've been able to watch some great games this year but there is no chance I am doing it regularly
I’m with you until the end. I don’t see an argument for how this isn’t given in MLS. Unless the foul itself is not called, why would a referee not give red? And if a referee did fail there, we’ve seen MLS VARs be pretty aggressive on DOGSO interventions—much more so than at the FIFA level.
Have Champions League group stage matches that air in the middle of the weekday in the USA ever gotten much traction on here?
8 matchdays (during the workday) in a giant league phase where 75% of the teams advance to the next stage of the competition? Meh...wake me up when the games start to matter in 2025. From my personal fan perspective, there's too much constant football all the time. I'm finding it harder to get excited for these constant European club matches. It's causing fan burnout. It's causing player burnout. The matches are so often and constant that there doesn't feel like there are lulls anymore in the season that lead up to the big/peak games. I don't think it's good for the sport long term.
Trossard's brother did NOT do us any favors yesterday. Kidding. No issues. He still doesn't let us touch anyone on corner kicks. But the Partey foul leading to a PK was probably correct. Partey got roasted and then got too grabby.
And what sometimes gets lost is this is exactly the kind of cynical foul that DOGSO was designed for—a cynical, calculated foul to take away an OGSO. We spend so much time discussing the technicalities of DOGSO that sometimes the who,e point gets left behind.
The EFL had to make up a rule in the Carabao Cup where teams in Europe couldn't draw each other because if a CL and EL side drew each other there was literally no spot in the calendar for the match.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/41398652/euro-2024-review-says-germany-deserved-penalty-spain Of course it was a penalty.
The only solution to the madness is for the players to strike. Rodri was outspoken on this matter and now he's out injured for some time. Lots of players getting hurt on NT duty for dubious competitions such as the Nation's League. UEFA need to end this one as well as the plethora of friendlies that take place during the club season... England should get rid of the stupid Carabao Cup and just have the FA Cup the way other associations do. UEFA Conference League should be restricted to only those FAs outside the top 6-7 so that the lesser teams have a chance to win it.
Never in a million years would we have seen Attwell making the most high profile VAR error in a major tournament coming.
But go look back in the thread and there were many defending the no call and saying they got it right. I, on the other hand, was saying "yeah that's a penalty" and the easier decision is to give the penalty. Now people are suddenly agreeing with UEFA what was obvious from the beginning that it was a major error?
I haven't gone back to the thread but I believe my position was that it was in a difficult/grey area and that's why Attwell wouldn't (or shouldn't) intervene. And that, of all VARs, Attwell would be least likely to intervene giving the high English standard that he's used to. I'm perfectly happy with UEFA saying this should have been a penalty. But if it took them 2.5 months to do so, I would suggest that real-time contemporary confusion by the VARs at the tournament was understandable. Not to switch gears too much, but I again think this goes to the fascination that the referee community (and public?) has on getting absolutely correct answers for things that aren't related to physical challenges. How many potential tripping penalty decisions that are or are not given get adjudicated way after the fact and get attention? Did UEFA say publicly what they thought of the Sterling penalty in the EURO 2020 semifinal, for example? The idea that we need a governing body to unequivocally say a handball penalty was missed in a tournament a few months back is weird, if you think about it and consider all the other things they don't publicly adjudicate later. Who is served by this today?
Agree pretty much 100%. That said, a player strike would be hard to pull off for multiple reasons: - the first is that the players are spread across multiple leagues - the second is that we're talking about multiple competitions governed by multiple entities - the third is that it's only a small minority of players (maybe the top 15-20%) who are affected by fixture congestion...most players aren't on clubs that qualify for continental competitions and don't get called up by their national teams. So while someone like Rodri may be playing too many matches, your random Ipswich Town player is not. I think what will eventually happen is that you will see star players negotiate match or minutes limits into their contracts....both in terms of which matches they are willing to play, as well as overall limits. Take someone like Kylian Mbappe.....he could stipulate in his contract that he will not be required to play in Copa del Rey matches prior to the semi-finals, home league matches against clubs in the bottom half of the table, and Champions League group stage home matches against teams in pots 3/4. Likewise, he could tell France that he is not going to play in any Nations League group stage matches, or any World Cup/Euro qualifiers against teams ranked outside the top 20. Or more simply, star players can simply put minutes limits into their contracts and leave it up to the clubs/national teams to decide how to best allocate those minutes.