2025-26 UEFA Champions League

That red card could be the game changer PSG need.

They've been very much second best so far. Harsh red to be fair, Diaz is a bit unlucky

It was an absolute shocker of a tackle, complete scissor tackle from behind, nowhere near ball, with high level of danger of injury to other player

Very hard to figure them out. On paper they have absolute quality everywhere. But they realistically should be 2, if not 3 down here.

The speed of him, and then the finish at the end of it!

Liverpool looking legging here. They'll need to make changes and substitutes have not been their strong point as of late!

A great last 15 in Paris is on the cards.

Going off the ground like that in that position, yeah its a shocker. Not dime a dozen, which would be sliding in from the side to take him down with far less risk of injury.

One can only hope Hakimi isn't out long term, ligaments must be screwed from it

I was asking a question I don't know when the whistle blew and didn't see the handball happening in real time so had no idea what he was even trying to give

It's confusing and it delayed the game

It looks like he gave a free kick and then 2mins later gave a drop ball instead

I don't see any benefit to a process that does that

Free kicks get awarded wrongly all the time. We don't need VAR intervening on each one now.

Especially when nobody knows what's going on or what the delay is.

As a spectacle it's worse now and this is a slippery slope.

But, some game other than that. Madrid decided to just try and kick us the whole 2nd half for some reason which was odd, not often you get to rattle them like that

If not for their goalkeeper being world class, yet again, it could have been more

Amazing night

it wasn’t clear to me that he had given a free kick! Or why there was a delay or why he went to the monitor. The setting up of a wall was when it seemed like it might be a free kick.

There was an announcement sort of saying “penalty check” so there’s an assumption that he was going over to see if there’s a penalty maybe, and handball was a best guess as it happened really quickly so could have been anything

Going over to see if the free kick should be reversed was absolutely not my first thought but well done on predicting it

The confusion with VAR was firstly the delay before the announcement of a check. The wall was set up and everything, yes it seemed at that point it's a free kick but wasnt clear there was a check going on - everybody just stood around like they didn't know how to prepare for a free kick

But...my original post was at halftime when I was annoyed by it. After that 2nd half I'm struggling to feel anything negative about the game anymore!

so you think the referee made a mistake in overturning the free? As in he made a mistake in overstepping what he was allowed to do in that instance?