Football Thread

The PSG owner being the 3rd person to lift the trophy after Marquinhos and Hakimi is everything you need to know about the club.

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Arsenal played like England under Southgate

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Being within two coinflips of winning a major tournament?

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It was absolutely outragous the Arsenal non-pen was waved away and not looked at. That was shocking.

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You obviously didn’t watch the last African Cup Of Nations

But still, just wallop it along the ground into the corner. EVERY TIME. I wish a player would commit to doing the same penalty every time. If you hit it into the bottom corner every time it doesn’t matter which way the keeper goes. Baffling

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The curse of the early one nil

Arsenal played like they hadn’t learnt any lessons from just losing to City in the Carabao Cup final. Sat back and relied on having the best defence in club football to much. PSG broke the CL possession record tonight - 75.3% to Arsenals - 24.7%…

Never a pen.

Arsenal player linked arms with the PSG defender and fell to the floor.

Clever play tbf

If that’s a pen then PSG should have had 1 for the Saka double hand ball in the first half - which also wasn’t a pen IMO

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The Haramball curse

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Past my bedtime will be up for the basketball at 2

Tbf. Arsenals game plan was pretty spot on.1-0 early annd park the bus. Classic Mourinho.

Imagine having 75% possession and doing fuck all with it minus an opportunistic penalty.

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My point was the bad bit was not even checking it.

I’m not saying if it was or wasn’t.

As for the merits of it being a pen or not…for me he was trying to buy it but didn’t need to because he was bundled down anyway. So half and half.

ā€˜Never a pen’ isn’t true because that could’ve easily been given. It was a very very close one.

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As I said best club defence in the world but they got a pen for a reason, inviting to much pressure.

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Imagine being 1-0 up for 85 mins and parking the bus.

Play to your strengths no? The best attacking team in Europe created next to nothing in 120 minutes

Would have been interesting to see how it played out had we not scored so early.

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Arsenal can be mad at the state of the refereeing in general (it was shit for both teams) but to take penalties that badly in a champions league final they deserved to lose.

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Don’t need to imagine it very hard. I can picture it exactly tbh :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Same can be said for Raya, amazed he saved 1.

I would feel confident stepping up against him.

He’s done this in every penalty of a shootout in the past.

https://x.com/AbsoluteBruno/status/2060798513986798056?s=20

Strange, no-one played great and Arsenal lost, yet people seem to be talking about it like we just witnessed some sort of master class in European football? It was one of the worst finals ever, I have no dog in the fight, just would of liked to have seen a clean sweep of English clubs in Europe is all but hey ho.

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Are they?