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In regards to Mehdi, he mentioned before that he will find it hard to play these games every 3 days. He looked tired tonight, hopefully he doesn’t pick up a knock and gets a chance to rest too.
Tie was fair result, a bit unlucky for porto to lose it. Both had equal good chances in the end.
Porto however looked very jaded. In hindsight SC would have been right resting guys like EvaNilson, taremi, Otavio and starting galeno, toni, Fabio who looked much more dangerous. Hopefully they can rotate this weekend and go to france and flip the deficit. Certainly they have the quality to do it, only energy levels are in question
Very forgettable game for taremi overall. Most of the players that were featured in the weekend game seemed a little off and slower today, agree its probably fatigue.
Definitely a consequence of this all being sort of late in the season and games getting very compact. Sort of with SC went with some of the bench players for this one like Martinez and Fabio Viera
It's good we all agree that Mehdi being benched is not a bad thing. He needs his rest man. We have a huge game coming up in a couple of weeks vs. South Korea. He's a human being.
I hope SC starts with his backup lineup this Sunday.
"This is a totalitarian system whose presence people feel in their blood and in their flesh on a daily basis. And it’s one that does not grant freedoms of any kind, or accommodate people’s demands in any way. What is increasingly clear is that there is clear demand for change in the regime. What the people want is regime change, and no return to the past. There is a very real possibility of regime change." - Nasrin Sotoudeh
It wasn't Mehdi's, or Porto's for that matter, night. There is a chance in Lyon next week. Both Mehdi and Evanilson looked off tonight. I had never seen Mehdi loose so many 1on1 duels over the ball. He was tightly covered of course (he almost always is though) and he has been playing non-stop plus the fact that mother nature did not help tonight.
that looked to had come off Lyon defender, so No offside.. woulda been the correct call there..!!
and the PK shout looked damn legit to me regardless of it bouncing off his knee into arm.... he had no business opening his arms that wide for controlling the ball inside box and any contact shoulda been called PK..!!
this sucks... i dont think Porto can muster anything more than a Tie away in Lyon..? but lets hope for a grand showing from the boys in blue/wht..! 🙏
that looked to had come off Lyon defender, so No offside.. woulda been the correct call there..!!
and the PK shout looked damn legit to me regardless of it bouncing off his knee into arm.... he had no business opening his arms that wide for controlling the ball inside box and any contact shoulda been called PK..!!
this sucks... i dont think Porto can muster anything more than a Tie away in Lyon..? but lets hope for a grand showing from the boys in blue/wht..! [emoji120]
So as others have pointed out there is a rule change. But to me his hand was not in a natural state and stopped a clear chance in that the ball fell to Porto. How a handball even unintentional results in the offending team getting the ball makes no sense. I can see this rule causing issues in WC.
Remember Mehdi's disallowed goal vs. Atlético de Madrid that should have counted but didn't.
"A #UEFAMAFIA managed to discover a hand from Taremi, but did not see a hand from Paquetá"
"This is a totalitarian system whose presence people feel in their blood and in their flesh on a daily basis. And it’s one that does not grant freedoms of any kind, or accommodate people’s demands in any way. What is increasingly clear is that there is clear demand for change in the regime. What the people want is regime change, and no return to the past. There is a very real possibility of regime change." - Nasrin Sotoudeh
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