It’s the rule apparently
Uefa got a chance to hand an advantage to their sugar daddy Real Madrid and took it with both hands.
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might as well rename the competition to: The Real Madrid League
OK, we should just congratulate Real on the CL title.
Sorry Madrid, wasn’t informed before 
Wouldn’t real be the toyboy in this equation?
Fuck this competition
What happens if a keeper comes off his line?
What happens if another player encroaches in the box before it’s kicked?
It should be consistent.
If the defending side makes a mistake and the goal is scored, goal stands.
If the defending side makes a mistake and the goal is not scored, the kick is retaken.
If the scoring side makes a mistake, the penalty kick is void.
I don’t see what’s wrong with this approach.
Fair enough but I don’t class the double touch, at least last nights one, the same way you do.
A keeper clearly coming off his line gains an advantage. A player mistakenly double kicking it does not.
There is no advantage to be gained so you are punishing an error rather than an attempt to cheat.
The problem would come if players are finding a way all of a sudden to take a ‘double kicked’ penalty as an effective way of gaining an advantage.
I am not saying that double kicking is an advantage. I was saying that there is already a large advantage to strikers during penalties compared to keepers. There is no need to be too empathetic towards strikers during penalties. If they made an error during a simple process of taking a penalty, they have to live with that mistake.
They slip, they double touch, they overkicked, they missed the ball…whatever…own the mistake and goal is void.
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And I understand that but I disagree on keeping the rule as is just because of that.
I would fix the run up issues as I said earlier since those give far too much advantage to the attacker, while an accidental double kick is just shit luck and should not decide an outcome like last night.
Stop bellinghams run up, stop Jorginho’s jump. Just a consistent motion once you start your move as the attacker and be done with it.
Totally agree, its a bizarre situation but its the rule and a lot of the reaction to it is because it’s Real Madrid who have benefited let’s be honest. I’ve seen some bizarre reactions even from ex-pros, people saying things like “why does the double touch rule even exist”. Well, because if it didn’t players would just dribble the ball to themselves when taking a penalty and smash it in from point blank range.
This isn’t exactly that situation but the fact of the matter is a player touched the ball twice to score a penalty. Whether it’s intentional or not is irrelevant, players are always punished for things which aren’t intentional that’s just the game. Like you said, the penalty taker already has such an advantage so trying to give them more is a little silly.
The video from UEFA is pretty conclusive. I doubt they had that clip when deciding within 30 seconds or whatever but it’s an evident double touch on that clip. Real always getting away from trouble, always finding a way through.
As miniscule as it is, got to cling on to the faint hope of a big upset. Realistically they should be expecting to work us fairly comfortably across both legs if they play 80% to their level. Whereas we probably need the two most complete performances of most of our players lives to capitalise if they’re not.
Interesting to see if Saka’s rushed back.
I didn’t see the Liverpool V PSG games. We obviously beat PSG in the “group stage”, but we’re PSG that much different when they played us?
Seems everyone fawning over PSG beating Liverpool, but feels more that the narrative is different because it’s Liverpool? Maybe just me.
PSG were very good across both legs. But they also only scored one goal and that was from a defensive mistake.