CITY XI | Trafford, Nunes, Khusanov, Alleyne, Ake, Bernardo ©, O'Reilly, Semenyo, Foden, Doku, Haaland.
SUBS | Donnarumma, Reijnders, Cherki, Rodri, Ait-Nouri, McAidoo, Mukasa, Lewis.
Big guns up front, o'Reilly at defensive midfield?
Big up front alright
But can we deal will Newcastle defensively?
Let's see
Joelinton trying to rough up O'Reilly. It looked like O'Reilly would leather him to me.
Bit of a flat 1st half.
Hall looks a decent player though. However he looked knackered, bent over huffing at the end of the half. Maybe Semenyo biding his time...
VAR is a joke, an abuse of football
There is no system in the world that can call such a close decision as that accurately, aside from the fact they admitted when the Liverpool goal that was offside was allowed, that there was 2 feet leeway.
Haaland was never ever obstructing their goalie and his jersey was being held by the Newcastle player a 50/50.
Ruined the whole game that stoppage and the dodgy decision sided the home crowd into action.
2-0 and should have been three, if it weren't for the crackhead officials.
That disallowed goal was a cracker too but what a fantastic team goal the last one was.
It was the right decision, but shouldn't have taken that long.
Iirc, we benefited from a similar decision when Sun Jihai was deemed the last player, and therefore the keeper and an offside was given
Quote from: KunDB on Yesterday at 21:41:40VAR is a joke, an abuse of football
There is no system in the world that can call such a close decision as that accurately, aside from the fact they admitted when the Liverpool goal that was offside was allowed, that there was 2 feet leeway.
Haaland was never ever obstructing their goalie and his jersey was being held by the Newcastle player a 50/50.
Ruined the whole game that stoppage and the dodgy decision sided the home crowd into action.
He wasn't obstructing the keeper, it was the defender.
But let's take away the fact that we won 2-0 at St James'. Taking a good lead into the return leg.
Seymenyo and Doku combined well.
Cherki and Ait Nouri did too.
Good, tough match for us after the easy one against exeter
Quote from: Swiss on Yesterday at 22:16:19It was the right decision, but shouldn't have taken that long.
Iirc, we benefited from a similar decision when Sun Jihai was deemed the last player, and therefore the keeper and an offside was given
Haaland, the keeper and the defender are all level. No need to get the set square out. It is plain to see that no-one is seeking to gain an advantage by standing offside. These lines are just daft.
Quote from: Swiss on Yesterday at 22:18:38He wasn't obstructing the keeper, it was the defender.
I now get the offside, but if he was behind the keeper with the defender protecting the keeper closest to the keeper, how in earth can they decide he was obstructing the keeper.
More importantly if Haaland was obstructing the goalkeeper the referee would have given the foul during play. Why then can he go to the TV Monitor and change his decision. I think the answer is obvious and clear to all. VAR decided Haaland was obstructing the keeper and told the referee to go and look again ( put simply go and rule out this goal). No wonder Pep, the squad and City staff were fuming.
No, they said he's obstructing Thiaw, not Pope. They have said if Haaland wasn't there, Thiaw would have got to the ball.
It is Technically the correct decision, but only because pope was 2cm ahead of Thiaw, which made Pope the last defender and Thiaw the goalkeeper for the purposes of offside.
I don't agree with the rule btw, but to the letter of the law, it's offside.