flobaba wrote:

Klaus wrote:

Who cares? You can't grab someone's shirt and then whirl it around your hand when you're defending. By the letter of the law it's a penalty the second Debuchy starts tugging. A proper referee would have spotted it early.

If every time a defender pulled back or held a striker's shirt a pen was called, the game would be a travesty.

Utter nonsense.

Benzema has a lovely first touch. Was that shove on Griezman a penalty?

flobaba wrote:

That's part of the physical aspect of the game, they can't be dancing around themselves like fairies.

There are the clear, blatant fouls/pulls that eliminate a goal scoring opportunity, and there are slight shirt tugs to put the striker off his balance. The latter is part and parcel of the art of defending.

A good ref knows the difference between the two, and calls it with sense and good judgement not just according to "the letter of the law".

Again this is complete nonsense.

Pulling the shirt is always a foul. Doing it in the box is just stupid.

Coulda been a peno to Griezman but he was blatantly leaning back

qs! wrote:

Utter nonsense.

Yeah.

Cheers.

no it was a fancied german in pigmounter, only unfancied players commit penalties.

That was offside but the lino bottled it

Varane is being bullied by Hummels on these set pieces.

Lawro doesn't understand it doesn't have to be deliberate to be a foul.

Sammy takes one for the team

Hah wth was that shot Kroos

Not impressed by Griezmann

A lot of players visibly struggling with the heat. Deschamps should get a sub or two on before we get to the Wenger's hour mark.

flobaba wrote:

qs! wrote:

Utter nonsense.

Yeah.

Cheers.

Well you were trying to rationalize blatant cheating.

Was the first half as big a non event as the second's been so far?

y va marquer wrote:

Was the first half as big a non event as the second's been so far?

Games been cagey but the first half was much more eventful