UEFA Europa League Chelsea V Arsenal - Wednesday 29 May - Virgin Media 2 / BT Sport 2

Quazzie

monkey9 wrote: »

Definite dive by Lacazatte, he was anticipating the contact and it came in fairness. Not enough to bring him down, but they're usually given.

You think Lacazette dived?

Shows how little you watched it when it was Auba that was involved

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Esse85 wrote: »

Peno for me if he was onside, keeper took his legs and got none of the ball.

Also made contact with his head

murpho999

Berserker wrote: »

If you can hear players talking in the European cup final, you need to visit your GP tomorrow.

The microphones are closer to the pitch whilst the fans are in another postcode and sounds not being picked up fully.

Awful stadium for football.

Barr

BT picture is fine , its just that camera angle they are using is annoying

Strumms

Yep peno, if the flag hadn’t gone up. Though we didn’t see that it HAD just what the commentator said.

yourdeadwright

Is there Var

greenfield21

Atmosphere like a man City game, the fans behind the goal should have stayed at home suprised if they can see anything.

Berserker

Kante hasn't got 90 mins in him tonight.

alta stare

Im presuming all the marks on the pitch are from the stages used during the pre match entertainment. Either that or im seeing things.

Berserker

alta stare wrote: »

Im presuming all the marks on the pitch are from the stages used during the pre match entertainment. Either that or im seeing things.

No, the pitch isn't the best. Just reading up about it here.

Panthro

Hon kante

Barr

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Is there Var

Yeah

namloc1980

Camera angle is really off for some reason. Not sure what it is but it's just not right.

NIMAN

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

how can you see it on YouTube?

sorry I'm up North.

Esse85

Has Ozil done anything yet?

Panthro

Jesus we look shyte
Arsenal should be a goal or two to the good here.

DJIMI TRARORE

Gooners looking the more likely,game needs a goal badly

Berserker

The camera angles in Madrid won't be like this, I presume/hope.

Vicxas

Who's idea was this to have it in Azerbaijan...

Crowd is dead, and half empty by the looks of it.

alta stare

Good few empty seats around.

Barr

Hazard invisible so far.

Berserker

Vicxas wrote: »

Who's idea was this to have it in Azerbaijan...

Crowd is dead, and half empty by the looks of it.

The Azerbaijani John Delaney.

murpho999

Barr wrote: »

BT picture is fine , its just that camera angle they are using is annoying

You do realise that eveybody is seeing the same images around the world. It's not BT's own cameras broacasting this.

Angle is terrible though.

Barr

murpho999 wrote: »

You do realise that eveybody is seeing the same images around the world. It's not BT's own cameras broacasting this.

Angle is terrible though.

Virgin isn't HD so ****e quality

Panthro

Chelsea woke up.

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Emerson lucky not to get booked there

Strumms

Vicxas wrote: »

Who's idea was this to have it in Azerbaijan...

Crowd is dead, and half empty by the looks of it.

Five and a half hours flying time from London. Purely a political move on behalf of UEFA. Probably 60000 plus Londoners having to pay for what is in essence a fûcking long haul flight. A political move to have it there...no regard or thought for your average football fan at all.


Been a decent first half, played at a decent tempo.

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Quazzie wrote: »

You think Lacazette dived?

Shows how little you watched it when it was Auba that was involved

Shows how little you watched, no it wasn't :rolleyes:

https://twitter.com/_TheFootballist/status/1133818014212788224

Barr

There was more atmosphere at the Aviva for the friendly at the start of the season.

TitianGerm

Barr wrote: »

Virgin isn't HD so ****e quality

It's in HD on Sky 105. I can nearly see myself in the shine off Emery forehead.

TheRiverman

There should never be a football match in an athletics stadium.Look at the distance from the pitch to the stands,horrible for spectators and tv coverage.

Barr

TitianGerm wrote: »

It's in HD on Sky 105. I can nearly see myself in the shine off Emery forehead.

Must be just those on saorview have it in SD glory :pac:

Panthro

Commentators saying if it goes to penos it go on till 2.30am local time.
Wouldn't worry, its not like the atmosphere will wake the neighbours!

dilallio

Barr wrote: »

There was more atmosphere at the Aviva for the friendly at the start of the season.

There was a better atmosphere at my grandmother's funeral.

Adamcp898

I would love to see the actual attendance figure. That half time shot made the place look half empty.

Mr.H

Jesus its like a pre season game but less spectators

Strumms

Replay confirmed.. peno and a red.

castletownman

The only defence I would have for UEFA, is they could hardly predict two London teams getting to the final at the time the decision to name it as the venue was made.

UEFA are a lot of things. But soothsayers they ain't

ERG89

Mr.H wrote:

Jesus its like a pre season game but less spectators

I can understand the fans being cold but the teams look uninterested like it's one of those Chinese just show up and wave to the fans friendlies you see European teams do in January.

Barr

Any chance they can play the second half in Wembley

DJIMI TRARORE

Surely nights like tonight should make UEFA set the final stadium around the time of the semi finals,embarrassing all round, crowd wise

Edit:SFs Eng,Spa,Ger,easy to fix it for anywhere in Bel,Ita,Hol or Fra at 4/5 weeks nituce

Quazzie

Strumms wrote: »

Replay confirmed.. peno and a red.

Contact with his hands and then after with his head. Two sets of contact, and no peno given. It was definitely a penalty if it was Hazard the far end.

osarusan

Kind of cautious stuff so far, especially by Chelsea. Arsenal looking a bit sharper. Fairly even though. No really good chances, just a few shots.

Didn't think the Lacazette thing was a penalty.

Atmosphere awful but that might be partly down to position of microphones. Camera angle unusually high also.

Mr.H

castletownman wrote:

The only defence I would have for UEFA, is they could hardly predict two London teams getting to the final at the time the decision to name it as the venue was made.

To be fair though they could have assumed it would have been two teams in europe

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Mr.H wrote: »

To be fair though they could have assumed it would have been two teams in europe

It's usually got a team or two from Spain, hqrdly suits them any more than the English sides

murpho999

castletownman wrote: »

The only defence I would have for UEFA, is they could hardly predict two London teams getting to the final at the time the decision to name it as the venue was made.

UEFA are a lot of things. But soothsayers they ain't

They knew it was highly likely the final would have English, Spanish, German,Italian or Portuguese teams.

Also, they knew about the problems with flights there.

They should not pick a venue/country where a competing player could not play.

This was all verifiable at the start of the season.

Finally, the stadium is an awful stadium for football and it has cheapened the event.

facehugger99

Mr.H wrote: »

To be fair though they could have assumed it would have been two teams in europe

You can probably narrow it down to England, Germany, Italy, France or Spain.

Fcuking Baku, absolutely ridiculous.

Quazzie

It's after midnight in Baku.

Hopefully Robbie Savage doses off in the second half

Bleating Lamb

Is Alonso injured or dropped by Chelsea?

Mr.Nice Guy

Giroud scores. It had to be him! Nice header.