The day the world witnessed the worst referee performance ever Chelsea vs Barcelona 2009
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- After a closely driven 0-0 draw at the Camp Nou in the 2009 Champions League semi-finals Barcelona visited Stamford Bridge to play in what arguably was the most controversial game in the history of European football.
What do you think? Was this game fixed? Or was it just a bad referee?
Let me know in the comments...
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Will never forget that Ballack chase after the ref. One of the most iconic moments in UCL history.
ballack wasent even supposed there he legit made a foul on iniesta and was his 2nd yellow but ovrebo favored chelsea
@@MultipleFlames🤡🤡🤡🤡
It wasnt a penalty it hit his armpit 😂
@@darwinp6758 oh how can i forget the foul the ballack did on iniestas face and the very very strong foul of drogba and the micheal essien foul vs iniesta oh and the henry pen and the offside goal of eto and the ballack hand in second leg and how do i even forget about anelka diving and malouda anelka and drogba dives once and claimed pen you know that yall blues claimed 2-3 pens but the vardrid fans claimed for 6 pens imao blues are right 2 pens score would have been 4-3 without ballack is second leg 3-3 we passing since 1 goal in the other stadium is equal to 2
@@davidjohn6323it still counts as a handball. It also touched a part of his arm. I dont know what you're on about
Coming back to this after Barcelona are being accused of bribery of an referee executive in La Liga is hilarious. The refs were 100% paid in this game it was obvious when the ref was being scream touched and shouted at by Ballack and, he wasn’t even carded cause he knew what he had just done was disgusting.
NEGREIRA
It's Ucl and the allegations are for Laliga 😑
what now elliot
Allegations were for laliga and there were false
@@Minecraft_lover143 😂😂😂 I don't need men in suits to tell me what happened. If barca can go as far as pay refs in la liga. Imagine what they will do for refs in the biggest club competition in the world
We all would have liked seeing Ballack tackles on the referee, while he trying to chase him, after he didn't whistle Eto's clear handball inside the area.
You were in the stadium that night and I know what happened after the whistle. The referee gave him a yellow card. Ballack was very angry and kept shouting at the referee until goalkeeper Cech came and pushed Ballack away from the referee.
Ballack what a player. I'm a fan of Liverpool but I'm not backwards in telling that other teams have players I like . PERSONALLY David Silva, Bernardo Silva was as good as anything the premier league has had past present or future. Shearer. Ian Rush hit 336 goals Robbie Fowler hit hat tricks 2 seasons in SUCCESSION 2 goals in 2 matches in SUCCESSION against big teams. Brilliant
@@erniescullion8452 Then came HAALAND.......shattering records all over the place !
As a Barça fan, a wise man once said:
"THIS IS A DISGRACE, A F***IN DISGRACE!"
Yeah, thanks for that, love DD. Still there was only four penalties not given that should have been!
You are not a Barca fan, because clearly you didn't watch the 1st leg
@@ganju_san2675
Anyone at this world didn't see a robbery like this in football
You Have to be shame of yourself as being barca fans
I mean ref fans...
@@almadridi4384 because y'all don't watch football, that's why. Even a blind man knows that we were robbed in the 1st leg
@@ganju_san2675 oh my god
U were robbed because eto was beside jhon teery and the ref said offside
And one penalty..
What else?
While chealse 5 clear penalties..
Only one was enough to go to final
The penalties were dubious other than the handballs. Pique virtually caught the ball and the Eto'o one was a stonewall penalty.
Aww bless you.
@@christianneathey7403 There's always one prick. 🙄🙄
The most funny part was in the 95th minute where the player runs with referee and yells at him while the referee is just chill looking
@@irfanitoking2324 ref was just thinking: no fucking way I'm gonna get away with this
@@christianneathey7403 silly prick with a silly name
"A champions league I would be ashamed of winning." José Mourinho
Mourinho knew about those behind doors deals. He was aware of the referee corruption at LaLiga while coaching RM. Coming from FCB as assistant coach during Robson's tenure, he knew the corruption inside the great catalonian team. It a shame LaLiga, RFEF, UEFA and FIFA don't make a move and penalize FCB for corruption and influence trafficking with the excuse of letting justice to follow its course, when they have the right to kick them out without waiting for anybody.
@@albenavides9969 Brokelona will face the punishments one day!
Don’t like Chelsea or Barca but Chelsea were robbed blind an it was there for all to see
@@is-gy7vt they got punished these days 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
mourinho! Look who is saying that hahahha ...in 2011 champions league messi paid god to fix that second goal against mourinho team... I think mourinho should be ashamed of players like pepe ramos... He should be ashamed of himself when ramos kicked mwssi knee after 5-0 in last minutes
2:00 lol even pique's teammate instinctively puts his hand up for handball
That's hilarious 😂
Haha
As a barça fan - there were 3 definite penalties that chelsea should have been awarded and the red card shown to abidal was never a sending off! Just a terrible ref all round. Never managed another European game after this debacle.
Well, I believe the referee did the right call, by not awarding the penalty after second handball.
The ball clearly was under his arm close to the body, which means by the rules standpoint that it hit the body, not the arm, so there is no foul and no PK.
The Ballack chase was unjusticeable as that there was no foul in there
(PS: I LOVE THE MOMENT WHERE HE CHASES HIM LMAO)
None of them were penalties, literally.
@@AnalizyObywatelskieRP incorrect. An arm that is extended laterally or vertically can make the body unnaturally bigger, covering more space than necessary. Therefore, a handball in an “unnatural position” can be called, even if it is not done so deliberately
@@SebastianJensby but its not a mistake if it doesnt get called.
@@AnalizyObywatelskieRP it defiantly is. If VAR saw it, then it would be a penalty kick.
I am a united fan and that referee has sold his soul that day, I watched the game with a cousin of mine who is a die hard Barcelona fan and he couldn't believe why the referee didn't count all those penalties for Chelsea.
That's because he was bad on both sides, watch the 1st leg bro 💀
your cousin didnt watch the first leg or the red card given to Abidal in 1st leg
@@-------------------. the first leg was nowhere near as bad
Happened for united many times against barcelona. Dont get me wrong barca were great but somme of the stuff that used to go spanish teams way.
clearly you haven't played football if you think those are legit penalties, the only referee mistake i can see is the handball at 81 minute although it was more of the assistant referee job to see that one
How Ballack didn't fly into a rage and beat up the referee is beyond me. Man can control his emotions, unlike me
Bro if I’m Ballack after this game there’s no way I’m not tackling this man’s spine with the studs up
@@thiccchungo1041 Damn right
Honestly thought he was going to kick the back of his ankles 😂
@@baboonman846 😭😭
What a stupid comment...anyone who physically attacks a ref needs jail
I had a friend at high school who supported Chelsea, had perfect behaviour in lessons, then on the next day, we had Spanish first lesson, the teacher made one comment about the match, and moments later he was kicked out of the lesson 😂
What did the teacher say
He kicked the teacher out?
What did the teacher do …
While he was getting kicked did he say “this a disgrace!!”
As a Chelsea fan this was so painful to watch. One thing I've never taken well in sport is ridiculously bad refereeing. It's one thing to be outplayed and lose fair and square, but this was a disgrace. Quite obvious after all the allegations Barca have faced that this referee was bribed.
lol shutup man, bribed my ass. watch the first game and see how terrible the referring was against barca, you only deserved a penalty in this game and abidal should not have been sent off!, yes the ref was shit and barca got a bit lucky with the pen but you did not deserve to win. simple as. plus you got your "payback" in 2012 so stop crying about 2009, it was for the sextuple team to win.
A bribed ref sending off a Barca player for nothing? A couple of handballs missed but the diving inside the box by Chelsea is just disgusting.
I wasnt even a Chelsea fan and I was convinced it was fixed. It made me so angry and I had like no stake in it haha. Thats why when Chelsea beat them in 2012 I was ecstatic haha.
@@menfaaanda your existence is disgusting.
You saying this as if Barca's side didn't get battered with horrible calls. This ref was terrible to both teams
As a forest fan watching this i can honestly say Chelsea was robbed massively.
I was at the game sat behind the Ballack shot. It was going in most likely and Eto'o intentionally raised his arm to block the shot and then the ball hits the upper part of his arm. Handball.
I’m a QPR fan and didn’t like Chelsea at all during this period. But even I can see that this was absolutely ridiculous. They should have had at least 2 clear penalty’s.
Only the first handball, in my opinion.
@@JF1908xYe... It wasnt a good match at all by the ref. But there were only 2 major faults here, red on Abibal, and not a penalty on the first handball. Oh, and Ballack should be sent off for protest.
You should watch the first leg as well, Barcelona got robbed by the referee on multiple occasions
This was one of the worst and most corrupted UCLs of all time when it comes to referee calls.
Yeah right. Karma is coming after you...
And barca fans says : VARDrid 😂 now they know why fifa invented VAR
look at ronaldo's offside goals man
@yeaa look at barcas as laliga game, bruh. Gavi fucking attacking opp, while getting no cards. This game is a disgrace.
@@aromalkrishnana2032you really saying this when you had pepe and ramos being worse than Gavi👎
@@DavidDiaz-vb5iq so,that makes every foul gavi did that didn't get carded,ok?
@@yeaa3880this isn't about Ronaldo or Messi, this is about a fraudiola's drama fc that pays some good amounts of hush money so they can get atleast one treble.
Im a chelsea fan and the only reason i can think of that we were robbed in this game is because uefa didnt want another united vs chelsea final . If we had VAR back then surely one of those would have been a penalty
Are you dumb
I think its the ref horrible refereeing it was unfair for both. Cause Eric Abidial got a red card,but he didn’t foul.
The referee was really conditioned because on the previous game in Barcelona, Chelsea robbed as there was a clear penalty to Henry and ballack should have been clearly red carded
if they had VAR back then that shouldnt have been a red card and you would have had 0 chance in this game
Lets look at the facts.
Chelsea: didn't get 3 penalties.
Barcelona: Ballack didn't got send off for slapping iniesta, abidal got sent off for no reason, they didn't get a clear penalty on Henry in the 1st leg, got denied a clear goal scoring chance in 1st leg, didn't get a penalty for ballack handballing the ball inside the box in the second leg.
13th anniversary today, I'm still shocked by the penalties denied on the two handballs but I wouldn't have given the penalties on the other situations, they weren't clear fouls. no explanation on the handballs tho.
I feel the same...2 handballs clear as daylight
Man you are so wrong
Only fault he made was that after 81 minutes.
@@Gibbs-rq4yg lol what, he made 6 wrong calls
@@patrickbasedman5255 BS
@@Gibbs-rq4yg it literally isn't lol
31´ 81´ 95´ clear penalties! 65´ shouldn´t be red card.. if they didn´t score one penalty it still would be 3:1.. BIGGEST ROBBERY IN FOOTBALL HISTORY
That red card was diversion. So people would think he didn't favour Barcelona.
@@venertooclaudierre9662 diversion by playing in ten men? you must be very smart. I bet the fact that Essien could not clear the ball when Iniesta scored was another diversion?
@@andreicornea7527 Not 10 men, the arbiter was 11th player for barca.
The only penalty is the handball from pique, everything else was diving. Furthermore, ballack should not have played that match as he should have been sent off on the previous game (which was a real robbery but somehow nobody speaks about it and the penalty to Henry). The biggest robbery on football history was the inter Milano Vs Barcelona, clear robbery in order to Barcelona not winning the champions in Bernabéu
I remember watching this match on TV. It was unreal. I was grabbing my head and thinking how is it possible for something like that to happen at this level of competition. The footballers themselves would referee better.
And Barca fans have the nerve to say Spanish teams are better. They should look into real Madrid as well. The recent wins are solid but some older ones. Well....
You can't help but think the ref in that game was bunged a few quid to deny Chelsea, how can the ref not see four blantant penalty calls. I would be surprised if he was allowed to officate a game again after that match.
Chelsea got their revenge in 2012 it was one of the sweetest moments in football
London is Red Anyway, wher yo at uefa cl 2023?? 💀
@mpumelelobeyers957 it's red cuz your anus is bleeding after an encounter with ur uncle 💀
where are your champions league titles?
@@mpumelelobeyers957
@@mpumelelobeyers957not the arsenal fan talking about the ucl 😭
@@dorikua Craven cottage stadium.. has a rich history than yo entire history 💀
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L 'Sunderland fc w Russian oil money' 🤡💀
Let me say straight away, I do not like Chelsea. But I remember this game at the the time and there's no doubt the ref cheated Chelsea.
I don't understand why no one talks about the first leg of Barca vs Chelsea. No red card for Ballack,clear penalty for Barcelona denied, Ballack hand ball inside penalty area, Abidal Red card, Drogba foul on pique. Everyone just talks about denied penalties of chelsea.
As a barca fan, I can confirm that this match like a wise man once said "ITS A DISGRACE ITS A FOOKIN DISGRACE"
and yeah we were probably going to loose 7-1
No, we would've gone to extra time, and either win or lose by a goal. Only Pique's handball was a penalty.
lose*
@@forests.9597 piques and ballack shot i think, oh and the red card to abidal, the only three mistakes from that night
Funking idiots Chelsea should of had 5 penaltys barca paid the referee for this game and they paid the referee in nou camp the year Drogba was sent off
Shat ap
I think this match was fixed in order to promote Messi as the next big thing and set up a final against Ronaldo. UEFA would much rather have this than another all English final like the year before. The most obvious one was the Pique hand ball. Its about as obvious as it comes and the referee can see it but decides not to give it.
Exactly, if anyone ever needed proof that football has become more of a tv show than a sport, then this was it.
The match wasnt fixed it was bad refereeing
The referee wasn't stupid. He knew what were going on. What a shame!
I like how the thumbnail implies that BOTH teams got fecked that night...
Pre-VAR era.
I am a Gooner and when I watched this my heart went out to my Chelsea Brothers&Sisters of Premier League...this was a travesty to see.....betting HAD to be involved...
England v Germany WC 2010 yards over the line, England v Argentina, WC 1986, blatant and obvious hand ball, England v Portugal EC 2004 Sol Campbell goal disallowed for a foul on his own team mate! And many more. South Korea v Italy WC 2002, South Korea v Spain WC 2002.
I couldn't believe it when Totti got sent off in that South Korea vs Italy game, that was absolute madness, and the disallowed goal for Spain in the previous round
The bias against the English is crazy
Football games like that can happen at times but not in an idealistic way.
@@JH_CFCy'all are just bad dude even with good refs 😂
Sol Campbell twice actually. And that Chiellini pull on Saka in Euros final was a red.
The red card for Abidal was about as bad as the missed penalties. He didn’t even touch Anelka and got sent off for nothing. Chelsea should’ve had at the very least two penalties and probably three. If I remember correctly, Drogba had the reputation as a diver, which could’ve affected the referee’s decision to not award him a penalty when he went down.
the last handball is just a disgrace. the ref was there and clearly saw that but didnt give a pen
King Thierry Henry wasn't gonna be denied uefaCL medal. London is Red Anyway 😂😉
@@mpumelelobeyers957 ye but still
If so many people from both sides complained, why was an enquiry not made as to match fixing??
Reality is that only the Pique handball is a penalty, the rest the Chelsea players went down like a sack of shit, rightly ignored by the ref
You can't be serious.
As an Arsenal fan, l don't have too much time for Chelsea, but that was daylight robbery
Fix your face!!! Thierry Henry wasn't gon be denied uefaCL medal... London is Red Anyway 🤷♂️🤭
This match and Barcelona 6-1 PSG are the biggest reasons why VAR needs to exist, without it match fixing and robberies by bad referee decisions would be way more prevalent
As a Chelsea fan i was absolutely devastated. Looking back now i still believe the refereeing was atrocious but now i don't think the "fouls" were worthy of penalties except for the two blatant handballs (the second was in front of the referee).
Also, Abidal was not the last man so the red card ought to be a yellow.
Dreadful noise accompaniment.
Vardrid vs Bayern 2017 was worse
Barca was robbed in the 1st leg
Im a big Chelsea fan and i have also lived in Norway for more than 30 years. This ref is a Norwegian. Even recently he was stubborn saying he did everything right that match and he wouldnt change a single call from that match. He also had another horrible match during that same period. It was between Fiorentina and Bayern Munich. It was so bad that Fiorentina fans were trying to find his hotel room after the match.
A good example of why VAR should be tolerated.
imagine this happened today? half the league would boycott, other half would be in social media comments saying 'cry more chelsea fans'
One year prior to that the final match was MAN U vs Chelsea.
MAN U had qualified for the final that year and Chelsea was about to against Barca.
The last thing the UEFA wanted is to have the same teams playing finals again. Less money, less viewing rate, etc.
It's all about money and the UEFA is corrupted as hell! Therefore, they bribed the referee.
then why did he send off the barca player for no reason ?
@@antzoomato make it look like he was officiating a fair game but you should know he was on Barcelona side
3 penalties really. The rest were dives
Yeah, 2 handballs and the the one given outside the box
none were dives
To fair anelka dived and Drogba too so not clear pens but the pique and eto
@@patrickbasedman5255 Both Anelka and Drogba dived
@@dritandervishi5785 I am a barca fan I can understand that one handball and that foul that was given freekick could be a mistake but Pique's handball was clear as daylight 😔
I don't condone abusing a ref, but this ref was abusing the whole team the whole match.
No. The world saw a match fixing scandal that still hasn’t been addressed
even the fans, bench player and ppl watching thru tv CLEARLY SEE IT WAS HANDBALL, idk how much Barca pay this ref🤣
I believe that was the last match for the referee to judge ever😱what a shocker
No it wasn't. He retired four years later.
That's why you shouldn't "believe", but do your research instead.
@@menfaaanda Nope he actually retired few months later not years
@@PawelNev in October 2013, Øvrebø announced his retirement from professional refereeing. ..That sound like years to me. Actually.
@@menfaaanda That was him in Norway league no more champions league not counting that as professional but u are kinda right
Abidal red card was a correct call...he brought down the Chelsea forward hence denying a clear goal-scoring opportunity
Anelka was diving. No penalty for diving.
can you post the first length too?
It wasn't poor by the ref, the whole thing was absolutely rigged because top UEFA officials wanted a messi and Ronaldo final, it's obvious
That handball was just redicolusly obvious...
31min it's not a penalty... No way.
I usually don‘t like those matches where one side thinks that if you make enough penalty claims the referee will eventually be obligated to concede one - as if several half- or quarter-penalties will somehow sum up to a „full“ penalty. That‘s the way Brazil tried to provoke penalties during WC 2014 (six or seven ridiculous attempts in the Germany game alone). Get the crowd cooking, put pressure on the referee. Having said this, this match here is a different case altogether. Although not everything in this video was penalty-worthy, Chelsea should definitely have gotten two: one for that clear foul inside, not outside the box, and the other one for Piqué‘s handball. Very bad performance by the referee indeed.
It could be argued that the foul "began' outside the box. But the handballs are impossible to defend in my opinion
And the red card
All the PK by chelsea are diving so VAR won't give any. On other hand Abidal won't be sent off so Barca won't lack 1 defender which is the cause for chelsea attack with pressure and Barca committing all the handballs, the outcome might be same with Barcelona scoring in the end. If Chelsea won this match by handball PK, its unfair to Barca as well since Abidal unfairly sent off.
00:20 Ref knew already what's gonna happend
I am far from a Chelsea fan, but that Barca side where proven cheats and the less said about the ref the better!
I'm surprised the referree could hear anything over the deafening music
As a Barca fan I’ll admit this refereeing was a joke. However I’ll at least admit that while people saying Barca paid referee while completely ignoring Abidal red card clearly wasn’t even a foul. Not as if Barca got it completely their way either.
Hilarious people think that first one is a foul, let alone a penalty. Absolute dive, there’s no way that contact causes Malouda to go down like that. Slightly touches his side and Malouda throws himself BACKWARDS
Well, yea... As a Barca fan, i found this match was very weird... I felt that it was rigged.
1:31 Anelka was diving💔
How is this still happening with video replay? They can see clearly what the ref supposedly can’t! I don’t get it 😮
This was 2009 - no VAR then
legend says Ballack is still running after him 😂😂😂
And this Fanbase Cries over Realmadrid
Barca is the biggest joke in the history of Football
barcelona só ganhou a champions em 2011... e já não estava mais no auge, há muito saudosismo nesse barcelona...
saddest game ever, chelsea should have gone through ~ spurs fan
You are a true fan. Hopefully you will get over this game one day.
Liverpool vs Spurs 2023
@@Nelze stay cringe kid
Fifa made "billions" off this match, setting up Barca for the future of Messi
Drogba and Anelka were NOT penalties
At the time i thought Chelsea had been ripped off massively but watching it back now its just a standard poor refereeing performances.
1. Arguably a penalty for the foul on Malouda.hes gone down very softly
2. No penalty for Drogba just not being strong enough
3. Anelka dived
4. Blatent handball. Not deliberate but still handball.
5. Not handball, hits him on the back of his shoulder
Yeah, this is nowhere near the disgrace that was Italy - South Korea in 2002. In comparision, this ref seemed very competent.
actually great performance by the referee.. he did exactly what they paid him for ;) if ya know what I mean
those diving things - wasn't a fault | serious honest
but the handball from fucking Pique - was deliberately | so Red card and penalty
I think Pique thought he was the goalkeeper at the time
Barcelona and messi have gotten away with alot of robberies...
This has now been beaten by the Spurs vs Liverpool game
This is probably not match fixing. The only penalties that should have been given to Chelsea was the two handball situations, but he did also give a red card to a Barcelona player after the Chelsea player got tripped by his own legs. I think this is just a case of bad refereeing.
Exactly
Barcelona have been caught out and fined for bribing refs. They had the head of the Spanish refs in their pocket.
Think to yourself. Why did Barca give money to refs ?
refs paid
just type real madrid vs bayern reffere and enjoy
It must also be emphasized that Ballack should not have played that game
The referee in my opinion is not corrupted as he did sent off Abidal when was not an obvious Red. Anelka was already falling down and even if Anelka was tripped, by the Barcelona defender, it was obvious from the replays that it was accidental, and in actual fact it was Anelka that kicked into the defender. It was also not a clear scoring opportunity as other Barcelona defenders were ahead. It would not make sense for a cheating referee, trying to help Barcelona, to send off one of their guys when Barcelona were already trailing. Apart from this, Mourada was a clear penalty as the referee agreed that it was a foul but misjudged that it was outside the box. There were also two handballs by Barcelona that should have been penalties, but they weren't given to Chelsea. Chelsea players are rightly so to be unhappy because of these bad decisions. . But even if we assumed he was a cheating referee, he would have no control or could ever have predicted that Inesta would score a wonder goal ourside the box in the last minute. I think the referee was just not good at his job and was scared to make tough decisions, especially because Chelsea players kept yelling at him, which caused him to make poorer judgement against Chelsea towards the end.
I didn’t see any dodgy decisions, Chelsea notorious bottlers
We can also mention referee's performance during Serbia x Switzerland (Albanians pulling and pushing Serbs in the penalty area without consequences) or Germany x Sweden (referee not ending the game 10 minutes after the extra time ended only so Germans can score a goal) during world cup in Russia.
you call that Ferguson extra time.
I call that era Blatterball
Lol the 31st minute dive by Drogba is never a penalty ever.
That's why I will never compare Messi to Ronaldo because where ever messi plays he gets help either from his colleagues ref or fifa
If the referee was paid then why was abidal sent off. Chelsea just cried for pens all game and got outplayed by 10 men for most of the game. I'm saying this as a Man Utd fan, bearing in mind if Chelsea won we woulda beat em easily in the final. Anyone who disputes that knows Man Utd had Chelsea's number at that point. I did want us to play Chelsea but they were crying foul for everything.
facts
imagine if the same happened to utd with Ferguson
There's no way utd was going to beat Chelsea without Scholes
VARchester United complaining about Chelsea criticizing the refereeing is a ready-made joke 😂😂😂😂😂
that's how uefalona was borned
Not worse than ucl final 2017 #Vadrid 🤡
Negreira lived in Europe too... A shame
As an Arsenal fan, l don't have a lot of time for Chelsea, but they were well and truly shafted that night. They should spend some of their money taking Barca and all the officials to court. They have all the evidence on video.
lol, it's crazy that Barcelona managed to advance after the ref red carded Abidal for nothing and didn't even send anyone from chelsea off for protesting.
All I saw was Chelsea players dive on every "penalty" sequence, stay on your feet big fella 🫣
That ref was bribed by barca..
no question about it
why did he give the barca player a red card then?
to make it seem less obvious that hes bribed@@peterplayz7215
As a Barca fan, this is crazy. Chelsea could have had 4 penalties. Abidal being sent off without even committing a foul shows totally incompetent refereeing
only 1 pen: Piqué's handball (pre-VAR era)
The worst decision was Abidal’s red i/o yellow for Anelka for simulation. And simulation by Chelsea there was a lot.. on the other hand, could have given penalty for Piqué’s hand even if that wasn’t a scoring opportunity.
Nah if you look closely the ref got that right abidal clips Anelka left boot and it makes him clatter his own legs together it's a foul
You may debate on weither it was worthy of a red card or not, it still wasn't by any mean a dive from Anelka.
On replay we see Abidal stripped Anelka's heel which on the run is enough to make him fall.
I'm convinced it wasn't deliberate and here is why I'm ok hearing it shouldn't have been a red on Abidal but that being said there is literally 0 valid argument for it to be a yellow on Anelka.
@@eddysfootballwaffle5975 you can’t say he got that right. Go see Drogba’s elbow hitting Pique when they jump. The pay had to be stopped there.
bro you never played football shame on you for making such a comment on the red card
@@ChrisMuehlberger60 thank you
Possible the biggest steal in football
This is tied with Barcelona 6-5 PSG for the worst steals of all time
I can think of a few worse referees
To be fair the referee made only a couple mistakes that Chelsea fans can be mad of. All these penalties that he didn't give during the game were DIVES. You can see it clearly here. Foul on Malouda was outside the box, Drogba fell without help, Anelka fell without help. On the other hand the red card for Abidal was a mistake because Anelka hit his own leg (!!!) without any contact with Abidal. So that mistake was in favour of Chelsea.
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I think this refree gambling for barça to qualifie it is clear