Football (Soccer)

[marlin]

Watching Bayern, makes me almost fall a sleep! They only do as much as needed…well let's see the second half.

[manufc10]

Is this really happenening?

[louisbosco]

Surely this has to be a joke. 2 teams well beaten in the first leg, unbelievable. Must be an Italian fighting spirit. What are the odds, they were 2 Italian teams

[manufc10]

Wow…Buffon red card in stoppage time...Ronaldo scores the PK to win it...damn must have been a great game. I'll need to check the highlights.

[louisbosco]

I feel bad for Juve.. they must’ve fought really hard

[manufc10]

To come that close then throw it all away with a red card and PK at the very end…gut wrenching.

[manufc10]

On a kind of cool note…we now have a German, English, Italian, and Spanish side left.

[manufc10]

From what I've gathered so far…the penalty was quite a controversial one.  Go figure.

[neph93]

I was watching and it looked nailed on to me.

[louisbosco]

nah. i've seen the highlights now and i feel that it's a soft one to give away. anywhere outside the penalty area, sure go for it. but in the box, it has to be more defined..

[neph93]

I can’t understand the debate. The Madrid player has the ball, is shaping to score only a few metres out, and the defender goes through the back of him. He gets a foot on the ball sure, after he decked the attacker by shoving him to the ground.

[manufc10]

All in all I think it was a fair result cause honestly I'm not sure Isco was offsides on his disallowed goal. After watching the highlights several times I think it was a penalty although I think giving Buffon a red card was uncalled for.  The ref looked scared shitless with Buffon up in his face, like a deer in headlights and I think it was a knee jerk reaction to red card him.

[manufc10]

Btw, unsung hero in that final play….Toni Kroos.  That pass was delivered with pinpoint accuracy to Ronaldo with the calm, composed, efficient, ice in the veins disposition that ze Germans are known for.

[Megatron1505]

A chest height challenge from behind, in the box, where the challenging player failed to make contact with the ball cannot be described as a soft penalty 

And I am speaking as somebody who thoroughly dislikes both Real Madrid and Ronaldo, and has always had a soft spot for Juve.

[Alex]

Buffon also told Italian media that Oliver should "sit in the stands eating crisps" for "ruining a dream".

Something may be lost in translation here… 

[neph93]

You’d have to hope so…

[manufc10]

@Megatron1505:

A chest height challenge from behind, in the box, where the challenging player failed to make contact with the ball cannot be described as a soft penalty 

And I am speaking as somebody who thoroughly dislikes both Real Madrid and Ronaldo, and has always had a soft spot for Juve.

It looks to me as if he did make contact with the ball though….still hard to say.  At the end of the day I think the ref made the right call.  He almost had to make that call.  If he didn't and Juve ends up winning that game????  Man...he would have needed a police escort out of the stadium.

[Megatron1505]

Watch it again dude, it was the attackers chest.

[Dion]

Yep. Benatia first pushes Vazquez from behind and then kicks his chest without getting any of the ball. Kudos to Oliver for seeing it correctly.

[manufc10]

ah…it does appear that's what happened.