2023-24 UEFA Champions League

It absolutely wasn’t. They didn’t.

Big pressure to give a penalty now again. Need to see a replay of it myself

Edit: think that one is a bit harsh as it rebounds off of his side first. But they should have had their earlier one IMO so they kinda balance off, within the game.

That shouldn’t be a penalty.

Farcical

That’s a scandalous penalty decision wtf

Incredibly harsh penalty call for PSG - off someone's chest and onto their arm from half a foot away

Yeah they basically just give everything as handball in Europe, not matter the scenario. It's bad but consistent I guess.

Terrible decision but two horrible, moaney, whingebag teams so probably a fair result that neither of them won

Depends on whether either Milan or Newcastle can get their crazy injury lists sorted. A full strength Milan should beat this Newcastle for instance.

Dortmund are also through so that could fuk both of the above and make it a battle for the Europa League.

Surely Newcastle had some options to bring on in midfiled, Joelington and others were woefull at the end - once again VAR ruining football

Just seen the penalty Milan were given for handball, what the actual ****!! His arm was by his side, turned side on and the ball kicked at his arm.

BT’s ignorance of the actual rules of football is amazing to behold. Even when they are told the rules they immediately disregard, forget or misunderstand them.

Don't agree the Gordon challenge was a penalty.

Nor did the multiple refs who looked at it tbf.

I thought the Dembele booking was funny. He was clearly booked for booting the ball away after the whistle but McCoist kept going on about it being a harsh yellow for the tackle - like could someone not tell him in his ear-piece what happened.

Its pretty obvious the PSG project is over now that world cup has happened in Qatar, they have no use for it now.

What I’m saying is I’d like to know how the PL writes the rules so that you it isn’t legal to deliberately handle it after a deflection off another part of the players body.

a ridiculous law, but that is pretty much always a penalty in Europe I'm afraid. it's silly, but that's how it's been for a while now.

also, it was not an unbelievable performance by Newcastle. that analysis is purely based on the result, and how late the equaliser was. Newcastle were barely holding on, and they were holding on because of a couple of incredible Pope saves, plus an incomprehensible amount of wastefulness from PSG.

if PSG had anything like their clinical boots on, that was a 4-1 game. the fact it wasn't was due to their profligacy, and a bit of dumb luck. to pretend otherwise is a bit disingenuous.

Depending on which model you use, PSG had between 4.47 and 4.82 xG. So let's split that and say 4.5 xG. Take away the penalty (0.76 in most models) and you have 3.75 xG. PSG should have scored close to 4 goals, save for bad finishing / some big saves by Pope.

FWIW Newcastle's xG was between 1.29 & 1.57.

4-1 sounds fair.

xG is nonsense, but we also have eyes.

Take the penalty controversy away, Newcastle were battered. They still didn't deserve to lose that way, but I'm just countering the notion that they were brilliant, as I've seen said all over the place today. that analysis is a classic case of looking at the scoreline, and the nature of PSG's equaliser, and just concluding that Newcastle must've been amazing.

they weren't. and i'm not saying it's even their fault - injuries are ravaging them.

Thought Newcastle were excellent tbh.

Obviously they didn't run the show but they were incredibly composed and thought PSG barely played a ove until the last 10