🚨 Rio Ferdinand on the Ballon d’Or race:
🗣️ “This is exactly why many people feel the Ballon d’Or has lost its credibility. We are talking about a player who has played around 930 minutes in Ligue 1 this season and is already being pushed as the favourite to win the award. Since when did football become like this?
The Ballon d’Or was supposed to reward the best player across the entire season. Consistency, influence, performances every single week. Not just who peaks at the right moment in the Champions League.
Now it feels like the award is decided by headlines, hype and who wins the UCL. A few big nights in Europe suddenly erase months of inconsistency and people act like the rest of the season never happened.
That’s what disappoints me the most about modern football. The standards for judging players have changed completely. Players who deliver from August to May are overlooked, while others become favourites after a short purple patch because their team is winning trophies.
Football has become too reactionary, and unfortunately the Ballon d’Or reflects that now.”
Si vous avez l’impression de voir des commentateurs à la hauteur de la plus grande demi-finale allée de l’histoire sur ces 3 buts je peux rien pour vous
On demande pas de gueuler comme sur les buts du PSG mais t’as un des buts de l’année pour un 5-4 et tu dis « aie aie aie » ???
🚨 Thierry Henry on the chaotic 5-4 thriller between PSG and Bayern, the controversial Dembélé penalty, and Michael Olise destroying Nuno Mendes:
“Listen, everyone wants to celebrate a 5-4 scoreline, but we have to be honest about how we got there. That penalty call on Alphonso Davies right before half-time is an absolute disgrace to the Champions League. It is never a handball in a million years. The referee basically handed PSG a parachute just when Bayern were suffocate them. You give a player like Ousmane Dembélé a free gift from the spot right at the whistle, and it completely manipulates the psychological state of the second half.
But putting the referee aside, the real story for me tonight was Michael Olise. I have watched Nuno Mendes completely pocket some of the greatest wingers in Europe over the last few years. He is an absolute machine. But tonight? Olise made him look like a lost academy boy. The directness, the trickery, the utter disrespect on that right wing, I don't think I have ever seen anyone do that to Nuno Mendes in his entire career. PSG might be taking a 5-4 lead to Germany, but if Olise plays like this in the second leg, Paris is in massive trouble.”
🚨🚨 𝗟𝗘 𝗩𝗔𝗥 𝗔 𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗨𝗦��́ 𝗨𝗡 𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗨 𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗔 ‼️😳
Ferran est derrière le dernier défenseur : le VAR a une nouvelle fois choisi une image erronée, avec le ballon sortant du pied de Pedri.
(@ArchivoVAR)
🎙️Toni Kroos (Ex-Real Madrid) on Eric Garcia’s red card
🗣️: ���I’m not one to usually defend Barcelona, but you have to be honest, they’ve been hard done by there. For me, that’s never a red card, especially in a game of this magnitude. Decisions like that end up deciding everything and take away from what should be a top-level contest.
Barcelona actually started the game well, sharp and on the front foot, but the sending-off and a penalty not given for a reckless challenge on Fermin Lopez completely shifts the momentum. It’s very difficult to recover or build any rhythm when something like that goes against you so early.
And with VAR in place, there’s really no excuse. These are the moments it’s supposed to get right. Fair play to Barcelona though, even with ten men they kept fighting, but when you’re dealing with decisions like that, it’s always going to be an uphill battle. They definitely deserved more from the game.”
🎙️Gary Neville on Barcelona game against Atleti
🗣️: “Look, I don’t like making excuses for teams, but you have to call it as it is, Barcelona were on the wrong end of some shocking decisions last night, and it felt like every big call went against them.
The red card for Eric Garcia? I don’t think he’s the last man, not in the modern interpretation. Then you’ve got VAR, which is supposed to clear these things up, completely silent on a huge moment with Fermín López. That’s a penalty all day for me.
When you look at the full picture, every key decision just seemed to go the other way. At this level, in games of this magnitude, you expect consistency and clarity. Barcelona didn’t get that and it’s cost them massively.”
Jamie Carragher 🎙️
“Ronald Araújo might just be the worst player to ever wear a Barcelona shirt. I question his decision-making every time I watch him. I wasn’t a great defender myself, but he makes me look world-class.”
« J'ai vérifié sur ma montre, et tout allait bien. Je leur fais confiance, figer la position est injuste. Ils ont gér�� la situation et c'est bon pour l'équipe, pour la F1 : je préfère ça. » 😁
Fred sur la bataille entre ses deux pilotes.
#F1 #ChineseGP