Anyone watching the Live Football on TV ?

Latest......Man City 0-1 Lyon

City blow it again

FT.....Man City 1-3 Lyon

City poor, Lyon were quite organised and frustrated them. Controversial second Lyon goal and it goes to ET if Sterling puts his sitter away seconds before their third. Bayern’s to lose for certain now.

2nd goal was offiside wasnt it?  

I suspect city will cry bottom about the second Lyon goal, either a foul on Laporte or offside. Either way it just takes away attention from the fact that Pep got it wrong.

At times it seems like he’s untouchable or can’t even be questioned but there has been several points this year where he’s over complicated, been too arrogant may be or simply gotten it wrong. Last night was one of those times.

Yes, you’re expecting Sterling to bury that chance and you’d have fancied City to go on and win but nonetheless, the team selection and tactics cost them.

Agree. Why play 3 defensive midfielders and leave all attacking flair on the bench. Deserves to be questioned. Was it a foul? I think it probably was but manager has to take the blame for me

I have getting fed up with the constant tinkering of the rules by FIFA in recent years. The offside rule in particular is simply a joke these days.

In fact you may as well scrap offside rule because as it stands you cannot play with it. Whether you like teams playing that play a defensive system to catch people offside or not ,, like the old days of say Arsenal in the 80's for example, it is and has always been a strategy of the game. But as a defender it is now virtually impossible to play against it. Second phase , interfering with play.....nonsense.

As one famous manager once said if you arent interfering with play what are you doing on the pitch.

That second goal last night. Regardless of the possible foul or not should have been ruled offside. The striker was at least 2 yards in an offside position when the ball was passed. It was passed to HIM!! He was running towards the ball. Even under current misguided rules that is surely interfering. The defenders could all see he was clearly offside and subconsciously would relax for split second. The fact he stepped over the ball is irrellevant for me. The guy who scored was clearly coming form behind the play so no issue with him. But how can any manager/defender defend against that. As a say it makes the offside rule redundant in my book.

This is not a VAR issue but a rule issue as most of the VAR controversies are.

A ball inadvertently touches an attacking players arm prior to a goal rules the goal out. Even if the 'handball' is the result of a challenge by a defender . Think Phil Foden and Lucas Moura as 2 examples this season. Yet if a defender 'accidentally' touches the ball with his arm NO penalty. Flipping Bonkers.

I see FIFA cant help themselves and from 01 June the definition of what is the arm has been tweaked, How the intercourse did we manage to play football for over 150 years ffs.

Just another example of FIFA ruining our game.

Go on then, last game anyone watching?

Champions League Final

PSG vs Bayern

Don't particularly like either but hope Bayern win purely because Neymar is the biggest cheat on the planet.