CL 2019-20

[ad hoc]

If Salzburg score does that put Liverpool out? (Given that Napoli are 3-0 up)

[ad hoc]

Never mind

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Salah's goal - unreal

[Ek weet nie]

Salah has missed three sitters but scored from a really tight angle with his weaker foot. Enigma.

[Toby Gymshorts]

He's quite handy, that lad.

[ad hoc]

Twice in a minute that the keeper makes an ill advised decision to chase after a ball he can't reach.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Entertaining game, that.

[anton pulisov]

Squeaky bum time for Ajax. VAR disgrace against Chelsea home and away could yet cost Ajax a place in the second round.

Neres and Primes both injured. Ajax misses a direct outlet without them. I'd play Dest up front.

[anton pulisov]

And Valencia have scored

[Sean of the Shed]

Poor defending from Ajax giving Valencia the lead. Their last defender played three Valencia players onside.

[anton pulisov]

That would be Joel Veltman, the poor man's Mario Melchiot. He's not quite Mathijs de Ligt.

[anton pulisov]

Sergino Dest has come on anyway. Not much left on the bench. Arthritic Siem de Jong and 36 year old Huntelaar.

[anton pulisov]

Valencia doing some amazing time wasting.

[anton pulisov]

Ajax - Valencia has gone all niggly. Lots of arguing and pushing. 45 minute second half, probably 10 minutes of actual football.

However, Lille have scored in London. One more goal from Lille and Ajax are through.

[anton pulisov]

Hahaha only 5 minutes extra time from the fourth official. Farcical

[anton pulisov]

Valencia using a sending off to waste time in injury time.

Now a player with cramp.

And now a substitution.

All part of the magic "time wasting in injury time doesn't count" rule.

[Janik]

Lille had one clear chance in stoppage time, but scuffed it; Chelsea win.

[anton pulisov]

Jaysus, Ajax played everyone in the group off the park and are now out.

[Sporting]

Valencia using a sending off to waste time in injury time.

Now a player with cramp.

And now a substitution.

All part of the magic "time wasting in injury time doesn't count" rule.

I appreciate your frustration but I'd wager that just about every team in the world would have done the same, and to be completely fair the five minutes of added time was extended by a minute (not enough, I know). Obviously here the reaction will be euphoric. A great backs to the wall victory for a club which offers it fans a whole range of emotions over the course of a few games, let alone an entire season.

Ajax's 4-4 away draw at Chelsea when they threw away a three goal lead may be the game they look back on with most frustration.

[Satchmo Distel]

Ansu Fati has become the youngest goalscorer in CL history but he's only 4th in European Cup history behind Lubanski, Ortega and Lamptey:

https://www.transfermarkt.com/uefa-c...nd_id/0/plus/1

[anton pulisov]

I appreciate your frustration but I'd wager that just about every team in the world would have done the same, and to be completely fair the five minutes of added time was extended by a minute (not enough, I know). Obviously here the reaction will be euphoric. A great backs to the wall victory for a club which offers it fans a whole range of emotions over the course of a few games, let alone an entire season.

Ajax's 4-4 away draw at Chelsea when they threw away a three goal lead may be the game they look back on with most frustration.

You don't say.

The home match where the VAR incorrectly disallowed an Ajax goal for 1 mm offside because they froze the TV frame AFTER the ball had been played in. That was also the same match where we found out that the new 'handball is always a penalty' rule doesn't apply to Chelsea players.

And the match in London where the referee contrived to send two Ajax players off and give a penalty to Chelsea in the space of five seconds, due to some very unique interpretation of the rules.

It should be Ajax and Valencia going through.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

If it's any scant consolation, Ajax must now be among the favourites to win the Europa League, and get into next year's Champions League as top seeds in the group draw instead of having to qualify.

[Nocturnal Submission]

You don't say.

The home match where the VAR incorrectly disallowed an Ajax goal for 1 mm offside because they froze the TV frame AFTER the ball had been played in. That was also the same match where we found out that the new 'handball is always a penalty' rule doesn't apply to Chelsea players.

And the match in London where the referee contrived to send two Ajax players off and give a penalty to Chelsea in the space of five seconds, due to some very unique interpretation of the rules.

It should be Ajax and Valencia going through.

Yes, football's a funny old game, isn't it?

[anton pulisov]

The interesting thing to me is how VAR, instead of evening the playing field, has the potential to be weaponised.

[Nocturnal Submission]

The interesting thing to me is how VAR, instead of evening the playing field, has the potential to be weaponised.

I think that, slightly ironically, the application of VAR seems to have similar levels of subjectivity attached to it that referees' and assistant referees' decisions did in the past. We're all going to have tales of decisions unexpectedly going our team's way or unexpectedly going against us and are just going to have to live with it as we did before VAR appeared on the scene, though the frequency of such incidents should be less overall.