I’m not sure why there’s been so much talk over the Llorente goal. Only one angle shows it barely clipping his elbow. But his arm is in a natural position. Where else is he supposed to put it? To me it looks like he’s gone out of his way to keep it by his side. And despite it barely touching him, it was his pelvis that changed the direction of the ball for the goal anyway.
Referees don't like to be seen to be wrong so VAR justified his decision and he lost no face. This ref was controversial in a Man Utd match wasn't he?
Man City 4-3 Tottenham (Agg: 4-4 - Tottenham win on away goals) please log in to view this image Manchester City Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola felt the evidence for Tottenham's decisive goal was inconclusive. "I support VAR but maybe from one angle Fernando Llorente's goal is handball, maybe from the referee's angle it is not," he said. "Today is tough and tomorrow will be tough too but the day after we will be ready."
Congrats on making it through over the two legs, the first leg was crucial in denying City the away goal. I think that was the clincher. I think you were the better side overall. But I feel you might struggle without Son, that guy is a goal machine.
There was a long wait for a VAR check but the referee let Fernando Llorente's stand. Did the ball go in off the Tottenham striker's hip or his arm? Hard to tell. But Spurs fans don't really care.
I don't know why but I'm copying and pasting photos of the hip incident but the photos aren't showing. They both show the ball missed his arm. They're on the BBC as it happened thread.
It definitely hit his arm. But his arms were in a natural position, no movement towards the ball. Valid goal. Also he was being pushed by the defender behind him. No possibility of hand ball. Edit - what @BobbyD said
Touched his arm but then went off his hip. The momentum of the ball shows it wasn't off his arm (we'd have seen a clear move towards the ball)
At their place too, so i heard; a Jimmy Greaves goal ruled offside when they had two defenders on the line.
I couldn't tell whether the skin on his arm rippled because the ball touched it or because his elbow hit his body as he was moving it. I've looked at it again and it seems that the skin doesn't ripple until after the ball has already passed which would indicate the latter.
Gonna sound ungracious but city have been given at least one fantasy penalty against us with Rose being sent off as a result (later rescinded) and one of them (Ballotelli)was allowed to stamp on Scott Parkers head with no punishmentand he went on to score the winner. City are so used to getting their own way since they became Plastic FC .... so **** em
Add to that the lack of grace their alleged "great support" have shown since winning the lottery a decade ago. I wanted Spurs to prevail solely because of all of this.
I wonder if we're going to stop City on two fronts, we won the QF's overall yes but we lost last night.
I rate you guys will probably lose to them on the weekend... but forget the top 4. This was by far the bigger game IMO.
Pep should be Brexit secretary. .he managed something that the government couldn't do in 2 and a half years out of Europe .
I expect Spurs to finish PL 3rd, and give Ajax two hard games (regardless of whether that means reaching the CL final) .
