What a comeback!

Barca score in the last few seconds of injury time to win 6-1 and beat PSG who won the first leg 4-0.

Incredible game.

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Arse-nal should take notes…

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While it’s an amazing comeback, I’ll be curious to see how many of the goals have 'question marks’ over them…as we all know that the competition needs Barcelona.

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1st penalty was dodgy.

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Amazing comeback - needed 3 with 88 minutes on the clock!

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Both penalties were dodgy IMHO

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I only saw the highlights, but I thought some of the diving & cheating was absolutely World Class. PSG simply couldn’t handle it. Don’t think many clubs could, not when Barca are on that sort of form.

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Can’t celebrate or appreciate that given the way that the refs blatantly favour Barca.

Oh well, at least some serious money has finally been hurt by the lack of video refereeing, which might bring it into the game sooner.

This seems like a fun way to live.

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https://twitter.com/TransferRelated/status/839775106981380100

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That is a quality stat.

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You’re not fussed by obvious cheating and incorrect decisions then?

Has any team ever won any competition without some favourable decisions at some point?

I certainly can’t think of any.

Come on man, to *that* extent?

Look, forget about the fact that it’s me saying this. Can you really not relate to someone who feels that the atrocious refereeing decisions took a fair bit of the shine off that result, if not the performance?

I’m sort of with @mrtrampoline on this one, yes PSG sat back and invited pressure from Barcelona but the level of histrionics and acting utilisied by Barcelona to get free kicks was quite stunning.

Couple that with two abysmal penalty decisions, I wouldn’t quite go down the conspiracy theory route but it’s not far off.

It’s not about who is saying it. I genuinely can’t think of a team that has won anything with out some dodgy decisions and some leveraging of ‘dark arts’, as it were.

I’ve not seen the full game yet as I was at a gig last night. But from what I have seen, and heard it was an amazing match - particularly for the neutral. Which most people seem to agree with. When I read your comment I could only picture Grumpy Cat.

Funnily enough I actually plead totally guilty to being a grump cat after that! ha!

I guess the main point I want to make is the fact that PSG’s capitulation (terrible though it was), doesn’t mean that Suarez didn’t dive. And you know what? disagree though many may, I feel like the ref did kiiiinda want Barca to do it.

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I’ve seen the pens, and I’d agree they were on the soft side.

I’m not saying the ref had a blinder, but I don’t think refs go into a game wanting either side to win, or explicitly trying to help either side.

I can see how their would be pressure on refs, that can sway their decision making. I don’t think it is deliberate. It’s annoying and frustrating, and Saints have certainly been on the wrong side of this recently and it wound me up. But even then, whilst I think the fact it was United played a part, I don’t think the ref went into that to deliberately punish Saints.

I’ve long since been an advocate of refs needing extra help. In my opinion, this could help to alleviate such issues.

Ref didn’t bash in Neymars free kick tho did he? That was class, and is the type of spark any team needs to win.

I agree to an extent about the decisions, but professional footballers diving / exaggerating / cheating is not a new thing is it?

If the FA have the right to retrospective punishment for violent conduct, why not introduce a similar sanction for those proven to have cheated to gain their team an advantage. No it won’t change results, but also won’t interfere with the flow of the game that the FA are so keen on keeping.

I understand this may upset the refs, but if they pay the type of attention that is required, and use all of their assistants in a decision making process then it might go some way to take the bitterness of such games away.

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Of course there was cheating, diving, dodgy penalties in favour of Barcelona, myopic refereeing etc. But the powers that be who run World football have got the required result, Barcelona progressing. That’s all that matters surely. It’s not as if these powers that be have form for being a bit dodgy and corrupt is it? Oh, Hang on a minute-----!

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