Champions League, Europa League & Europa Conference League 22/23

[Winston Biscuit]

really hope Spurs go out

[Royality creeps In]

really hope Spurs go out

Agreed Horrible club
Horrible manager
Fans are mostly delusional oxf*rd!

[Ascotexgunner]

really hope Spurs go out

Good news is that there's several ex gooner rejects in that Marseilles side. Some of them may yet become Arsenal legends.

[Vision]

Don’t think clear and obvious error comes into it.

It’s just offside or not.

I'm hoping someone can confirm if it's always been the law that you can be offside even if the ball travels backwards at the point you're supposedly in an offside position. Also as an aside if VAR is drawing a line from the actual ball, what part of the ball are they drawing it from? The centre? The furthest point forward? The furthest point back?

It may be that I've had this law wrong all along but my concern here is that the laws are being set to help service VAR rather than VAR being there to service the laws.

That said watching Conte lose his ever loving shite was amusing.

It has always been the case that the direction of the ball is meaningless when it comes to offside decisions (at least for as long as I can remember). The only things that are important are (alongside the relatively new active passage of play part)

1. Are there 2 defenders (one may be the GK) between you and the goal?
2. If 1 is no, are you behind the ball when it was passed to you?

Naturally, 99.9% of the time if you are behing the ball it goes without saying that if the ball goes backwards you will be behind the ball but in this instance Kane was fractionally in front of it which meant he was offside.

Cheers, as I suspected, I never really knew what the law actually was

It still strikes me as very problematic to take the position of the ball as a direct means measurement to judge whether a player is offside or not. VAR obviously freezes the frame when the ball is kicked (or headed) but it's a different thing entirely to use it as a direct measurement to the comparative position of the player as well. In that direct comparison I'm still not sure what part of the ball they draw the line from.

[Loafer]

Wtaf was anthony doing randomly spinning around like that on the ball in acres of space

Ten haag was fuming at him

[Stranded]

Wtaf was anthony doing randomly spinning around like that on the ball in acres of space

Ten haag was fuming at him

It's his "thing".

[Loafer]

Wtaf was anthony doing randomly spinning around like that on the ball in acres of space

Ten haag was fuming at him

It's his "thing".

Its oxf*rd weird and pointless

[Stranded]

Wtaf was anthony doing randomly spinning around like that on the ball in acres of space

Ten haag was fuming at him

It's his "thing".

Its oxf*rd weird and pointless

"things" normally are. He's clearly hoping he'll be able to trademark it or something and use to sell t-shirts etc.

He won't because it's shit and he'll probably get hauled off by the manager everytime he tries it.

[From Despair To Where?]

Wtaf was anthony doing randomly spinning around like that on the ball in acres of space

Ten haag was fuming at him

I don't mind showboating as such as long as its not followed by a pass that rolls harmlessly out for a goal kick.

When that happens, you look an utter bellend.

[Loafer]

Wtaf was anthony doing randomly spinning around like that on the ball in acres of space

Ten haag was fuming at him

I don't mind showboating as such as long as its not followed by a pass that rolls harmlessly out for a goal kick.

When that happens, you look an utter bellend.

Showboating is fine if you beat a man or trick somebody

He had nobody anywhere around him and passed it out the pitch

[Winston Biscuit]

Kane's diving really is embarrassing

[Loafer]

Kane's diving really is embarrassing

+1

Shouldn't go to the wc as a starter IMHO

Toney and Wilson!!!!

[Winston Biscuit]

I don't remember the last time (or ever) England had a captain I found so easily dislikable as Kane

[Loafer]

I don't remember the last time (or ever) England had a captain I found so easily dislikable as Kane

Rooney?

At least Rooney was good player and won trophies

[Stranded]

Was keeping an eye on the Frankfurt game whilst watching the Reading game and they were excellent in the 2nd half to turn it around in Lisbon to qualify and to be seconds away from winning the group in their first CL season was an excellent effort. Been a fantastic year in European football for Eintracht - in Kamada, Kolo Muani and Lindstrom they have some high quality players.

A highly entertaining group which during the course of last night saw each side in a position to qualify or with the exception of Spurs drop out of Europe altogether. Have no idea why the Marseille defender didn't just haul Höjbjerg down in the last minute - probably wasn't aware but if he'd taken the red they Marseille would have made the Europa League play-offs instead, the late goal saw them drop out of European competition completly.

[genome]

Their manager was on the pitch basically begging the ref to blow up for 1-1. I don't know why Marseille chucked everyone forward to get a winner, they could've just taken the draw.

Good strike from Hojbjerg though to be fair, proper hit

[Conservative_dad]

Spurs' football is completely dogshit, horrible to watch!

[Sutekh]

Their manager was on the pitch basically begging the ref to blow up for 1-1. I don't know why Marseille chucked everyone forward to get a winner, they could've just taken the draw.

Good strike from Hojbjerg though to be fair, proper hit

Marseille had to win to qualify for the last 16 any other result would take Spurs through. From what I saw in the last half of the first half I thought Marseille were destroying Spurs so surprised to see Spurs win but then if you don’t create much despite a ton of possession there’s always a chance you’ll get done at the other end of the pitch.

[Conservative_dad]

Their manager was on the pitch basically begging the ref to blow up for 1-1. I don't know why Marseille chucked everyone forward to get a winner, they could've just taken the draw.

Good strike from Hojbjerg though to be fair, proper hit

Marseille had to win to qualify for the last 16 any other result would take Spurs through. From what I saw in the last half of the first half I thought Marseille were destroying Spurs so surprised to see Spurs win but then if you don’t create much despite a ton of possession there’s always a chance you’ll get done at the other end of the pitch.

Conte's M.O. tbf

[Hendo]

Celtic and Rangers have both been absolutely dog shit in the champions league this year.