I don't get it

Don't hurt yourself trying to work it out

soccer?lol.

To be fair, people here will talk about the referee last night but PSG only have themselves to blame. Even the ultra-defensive, everyone behind the ball, let's not leave a space Chelsea team of Di Mateo were more of an attacking threat to Barça and that was with ten men and when Barça were at their best.

Last night, Barça were good, Neymar was excellent, Suarez was Suarez but PSG were terrible. The defender who has his arms up in the air and is chasing Suarez is just asking for trouble. It actually takes a very special team to be organised enough to sit and defend against the likes of Barça, City, Bayern etc. You have to have strong minded defenders who love not only defending but the huge pressure they are inviting onto themselves. PSG didn't enjoy that!

Barca were unbelievable, but Suarez dive was a mess. Never a penalty in any way. Should have been sent off.,but I can see why that tag gets stuck with barca.

But people also forget just how good and how many opportunities they create. They are also a massive club, and I suspect that does get them done favouritism, like Utd got occasionally in the past (not this season).

Aresnal on the other hand were crap and are not a giant club, and don't have that sway.

Arsenal are better off out. That way you can't embarrass the English game any further!

comment by LQ (U6305)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
The ref didn't really get anything wrong in the Arsenal game though.

Wenger was deflecting.

Barca are the biggest club in the world they get decisions this is nothing new.
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Yes, except the offside and dive he gave as a penalty and red:
https://ibb.co/cqu7dv but don't let the facts get in your way

OP, I don't think you're not allowed; it's just that no one really believes you had it in you to pull it off. Wenger's just howling at the moon.

The dodgiest decisions against Arsenal have been the ones to extend Wenger's contract time after time.

If we had as bias a ref as barca at the very least we would have been 2-0 in first half (more if sanchez had scored the freekcik resulting from Ramsey take down the wasn't given). The pen wouldn't have been given for lewondowski offside and dive( he pushes himself away from kos with his arm then goes down, watch again)

As yesterday showed, momentum in this type of tie means a teams respective ability goes out the window. Bayern are far better than us yet didn't have a shot on target for 50 mins.

If you don't understand importance the ref had in both cases, positively in barca case and negatively in arsenal then you're an idiot. 10-2 could easily have been 5-3 at the very least. We probably would have conceeded eventually but at least there would have been more of a chance

In both cases a team from group A sponsored by Emirates got knocked out.
Now there's your conspiracy, it was planned months ago.

Even as a gooner, there is nothing positive I can take from the game on Tuesday and blaming the ref is clutching at straws. If we had looked solid, picked our moments and looked cohesive and finished the game at 1-1, then we could be up in arms about the ref and talk about what could have been. As a realist, you have to understand that being 6-1 down in the tie and playing with ten men, was not ever going to turn the tide and accept that the tie is lost. Switch to damage limitation as we already saw what Bayern can do even against 11 men in Munich.

So the questions (and rightly so) should be about the way that Bayern did not have to work hard at all for any of their goals. Where was the professional pride? Tactics? Cohesion? Forget the ref.

Also, look back at the first leg. 1-1 and then suddenly we go to pieces. Is Koscielny the on ONLY player who can organize that team? What is the manager getting paid to do? You have an away goal versus bayern in the first leg. Sit tight and play on the counter. Defend first. Once 2-1 down and even 3-1 down, it really should have been all hands on deck to stop any further goals. But yet we ship 2 more.

All in all, the ref (had a nightmare) but he cannot be blamed for the lack of performance from our players over the two legs.

6-2*