Aston Villa v PSG Post-Match Thread

[jon collett]

There were at least two drums and they had been given an allocated space right next to the pitch. Presumably the police trying to appease PSG supporters. They were v slow to move in on pyros at the end as well.

[PeterWithe]

Them putting the ball straight out of play from the second half kick off was a bit suspect, I'd be looking at the players betting account.

[cdbearsfan]

Not sure you can still bet on that.

[martyn ellis]

I always watch the Villa TV offering of 'Pitchside' after a match. It gives a really good flavour of the atmosphere of a game, as well as some terrific angles of key moments. The PSG 'Pitchside' offering this week takes it to a new level. Check it out if you haven't already.

[LeeB]

Them putting the ball straight out of play from the second half kick off was a bit suspect, I'd be looking at the players betting account.

My mind went back to the Graham Taylor days of booting out towards Ormondroyd and 9 times out of 10 it going out.

[Somniloquism]

I always watch the Villa TV offering of 'Pitchside' after a match. It gives a really good flavour of the atmosphere of a game, as well as some terrific angles of key moments. The PSG 'Pitchside' offering this week takes it to a new level. Check it out if you haven't already.

Anyone there early and see if the sprinklers caught the VTV lot?

[Percy McCarthy]

Apparently the ball was out of play for 14 minutes 8 seconds (3 minutes added on!), this is on top of the Lino letting 2 blatant offsides go in the second half  which they got corners from.
Then the fouls the ref let go for them and penalised us multiple times.
I am sure the Qatari bank account will come in handy at some point.

Still doesn't explain why they paid for only 1 minute of time in the first half.

Not sure I get this. The less added time the better for them surely, whatever the half.

[Somniloquism]

Well it is apparently corruption that we didn't have 6-7 minutes when we only needed one goal and was chasing and creating chances. But approaching half time we had one back but wasn't creating much and had 1 min. I don't remember any of our fans grumbling about that at the time.

[Percy McCarthy]

Well it is apparently corruption that we didn't have 6-7 minutes when we only needed one goal and was chasing and creating chances. But approaching half time we had one back but wasn't creating much and had 1 min. I don't remember any of our fans grumbling about that at the time.

I’m not saying it’s corruption, but if it was, less added time suits the team that paid for it in either/both halves if they are winning the overall tie.

[Flamingo Lane]

A refereeing incident in the second half that I found very peculiar was when Konsa, just inside our half, intercepted a forward pass to a PSG player who was in an offside position and instead of letting us play on (we had a good chance to launch a break), the referee blew his whistle for the offside, stopped play, and gave us a free kick, allowing PSG to easily regroup.

[UK Redsox]

Well it is apparently corruption that we didn't have 6-7 minutes when we only needed one goal and was chasing and creating chances. But approaching half time we had one back but wasn't creating much and had 1 min. I don't remember any of our fans grumbling about that at the time.

I was grumbling away in the LTR when '1' went up, despite the three goals, one of the PSG players having an extended sit-down etc

As the second half progressed, I said to my mate that, despite the two goals / substitutions / time wasting, there was no way we'd get more than 3 or 4 minutes added.

[wince]

Well it is apparently corruption that we didn't have 6-7 minutes when we only needed one goal and was chasing and creating chances. But approaching half time we had one back but wasn't creating much and had 1 min. I don't remember any of our fans grumbling about that at the time.

I’m not saying it’s corruption, but if it was, less added time suits the team that paid for it in either/both halves if they are winning the overall tie.

I am calling it a bias. And less time is less time so no idea what Somniloquism is trying to say with the original point. As perce has said, the less time played suits the team in front at that point.

We rarely got anything from that ref. Sure there was a corner for them that wasnt a corner as well.

[kippaxvilla2]

I’m convinced PL referees are instructed to give ludicrous amounts of injury time just to add the drama of the ‘best league in the world.’

[cdbearsfan]

On the contrary, I think the Premier League gives the correct amount of injury time and the other leagues award nowhere near enough.

[OCD]

A refereeing incident in the second half that I found very peculiar was when Konsa, just inside our half, intercepted a forward pass to a PSG player who was in an offside position and instead of letting us play on (we had a good chance to launch a break), the referee blew his whistle for the offside, stopped play, and gave us a free kick, allowing PSG to easily regroup.

Just shit refereeing. I've been surprised how poor the refereeing has been in the CL. I'm still annoyed that Rogers' goal against Juventus didn't stand.