Simeone = Nightmare
Anyone else think this is a really poor display from this referee for such a high profile European game?
It felt like one of those Atletico nights that needed Felix Brych or Kuipers to get though without a ton of issues. Otherwise these feels like the type of game you're going to get with Simeone no matter what.
The obvious question is why is someone so inexperienced is refereeing a ECL quater final that was always likely to be a powder keg. He will learn from it, but do you really want that kind of game to be one where the inexperienced referee is learning?BTW this was his 10th ever CL game and his first year working in the knockout stages. He's never officiated Atletico before in Europe.
Let's not go too hard on a young rising referee because he didn't handle this game like Felix Brych did at the end of his career. He'll probably learn a few things from this.
Pretty sure there’s a spit from an Atletico player at the end of that, proper sc*mbag behaviour
The obvious question is why is someone so inexperienced is refereeing a ECL quater final that was always likely to be a powder keg. He will learn from it, but do you really want that kind of game to be one where the inexperienced referee is learning?
Maybe VAR could of got involved with the 'headbutt' but it's one of those where it's just more head to head too me, no real force and thankfully Sterling(?) did not make a meal of it.
It's pretty wild that UEFA would probably not want that to be a red card now. Quite a change from the mid-2010s when VC was thrown out for things like that and small kickouts.
What, are you joking?We don't even know if the VAR even spotted it as so much was going on but if Peter Walton managed to spot it(or he got told by someone else!) then maybe he should of seen it and alerted the ref!
What, are you joking?
Do you think Peter Walton has a direct line to the VAR. I mean I thought some of your first post was waffle but this beats it
I think he dealt with what he had seen first, he hadn't seen the secondary motion of Felipe's tackle and seemed to be alerted by one of the ARs or 4th official. Quite rare to see the officials actually get together on the pitch like that these days, usually all done over comms.only seen the Felipe meltdown, absolutely unnacceptable and hopefully a 6 month ban.
it wont be though.
that aside, horrible melee for the officials, so its not a slant on them, the interesting part being most refs preach dealing with the red cards first after a stromash, this ref gave his two yellows, then went for the second yellow and red.
Of course VAR should have noticed, they have one job to do, have access to multiple camera, and have a remit for spotting VC and alerting the officials to it. Be interesting to see if UEFA take retrospective action against Savic, given he committed two obvious acts of VC, as that would be a damning indictment on VAR.LOL can't believe you even asked that question!
I was not saying Peter Walton should of told the VAR/ref about the headbutt(). Walton said he was watching pictures which might of been what the VAR was seeing and I'm just saying if Walton noticed there was a headbutt then perhaps the VAR should of noticed it also and alerted the ref. Obviously in the CL it's different to the prem as we don't get too see what pictures the VAR is viewing but there was a red card check, whether it was for the headbutt or not I don't know.
I think he dealt with what he had seen first, he hadn't seen the secondary motion of Felipe's tackle and seemed to be alerted by one of the ARs or 4th official. Quite rare to see the officials actually get together on the pitch like that these days, usually all done over comms.
Honestly, who else could have done it? Makkelie is likely doing the final. Turpin is likely on one of the semifinal second legs. No English or Spanish referee could have done it. Apparently, Orsato is injured. As noted earlier, no Karasev, Hategan, or Cakir. Brych and Kuipers are retired from international duty at a minimum.The obvious question is why is someone so inexperienced is refereeing a ECL quater final that was always likely to be a powder keg. He will learn from it, but do you really want that kind of game to be one where the inexperienced referee is learning?
but do you really want that kind of game to be one where the inexperienced referee is learning?