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José María Sánchez Martínez - Aston Villa v PSG
DIR By: TA_Ref
Date: April 15, 2025, 3:59 pm
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Two major gripes with the officiating team this evening. No
action taken against some pretty blatant time wasting by PSG
players from goal kicks, throw ins and free kicks. Don’t get me
wrong I understand they wanted to take the sting out of the game
but I thought it went too far. And therefore my second gripe is
with the amount of added time in each half. 1st Half - 3 goals
and an incident between Hakimi and McGinn = 1 minute. 2nd Half -
2 goals, time wasting and substitutes = 3 minutes. Wasn’t an
accurate reflection in my opinion.
Apart from that, I thought that Spaniard was decent throughout.
Villa fans seemed unhappy at the amount of ‘soft’ fouls given to
PSG but I think his hands were tied with most of them. One
yellow to John McGinn which seemed correct. The only major
mistake he made was awarding a free kick on Doue against
Tielemans which wasn’t a foul. But he looked assured in what he
was doing and done what he needed to do.
Credit to Aston Villa who put up an incredible fight after going
2-0 down on the night and 4 down on aggregate. Arguably had the
chances to take it to extra time as well. A cracking 90 minutes
of football
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Re: José María Sánchez Martínez - Aston Villa v PSG
DIR By: ell
Date: April 16, 2025, 2:31 am
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agree with your summary - (lack of) added time in uefa games is
a huge issue imo and allows teams to waste copious amounts of
time without significant action.
the free kick you mention really annoyed me, was a really poor
decision, one was couldnt have been better placed to make
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Re: José María Sánchez Martínez - Aston Villa v PSG
DIR By: dave26
Date: April 16, 2025, 3:06 am
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Barring injuries , in UEFA competitions you generally get 0-1
minute added on at end of first half , and usually 3 minutes
added on at end of second half , thats what I have noticed for
as long as I can remember
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Re: José María Sánchez Martínez - Aston Villa v PSG
DIR By: Ryanellis
Date: April 16, 2025, 3:06 am
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I agree with the added time. Something that has become a real
issue in UEFA games. If they resort back to World Cup added
time, then there would be a lot less time wasting. I also don’t
see why they didn’t do it at the euros either - what’s the point
for just one tournament?
Now something I did see, on tik tok, was when the officials were
walking off, a bottle got thrown at Mr Martinez by an Aston
Villa supporter. No one condones this behaviour and I hope the
person is banned. I’ll put a link to the tik tok below:
HTML https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFx2ACW/
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Re: José María Sánchez Martínez - Aston Villa v PSG
DIR By: Claretman
Date: April 16, 2025, 4:52 am
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Fantastic game, great atmosphere.
The added time at the end of each half was unfathomable.
At the end of the first half the referee spoke with PSG
goalkeeper to get him to hurry up and then blew up as soon as he
took the goal kick so didnt add amy time.
Three minutes added probably should have been double that at the
end of the second half.
Cant comment too much on the overall performance of the referee
as like the future king i got to wrapped in the game.
Was always a difficult tie to win when conceding two early goals
from sloppy mistakes which were finished clinically but to get
so close and have one of the favourites under the cosh and
panicking for the first 30 mins of the second half was
impressive.
I wonder who played the europa league theme instead of the
champions league theme as the players lined up…..sackable
offence ?
Lastly i hope the fan who threw the bottle at the referee gets a
lifetime ban, it would be appropriate to get a short custodial
sentence too. Such events reflect extremely badly on the club
and the loyal well behaved fans.
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Re: José María Sánchez Martínez - Aston Villa v PSG
DIR By: DerbyLad90
Date: April 16, 2025, 6:04 am
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Echo the thoughts on the added time, especially 2nd half, can
only guess he had a flight to catch!
3 minutes was a complete joke, given all the subs, injuries and
time wasting.
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Re: José María Sánchez Martínez - Aston Villa v PSG
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: April 16, 2025, 8:28 am
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A fantastic effort by Aston Villa. I have the greatest respect
for Unai Emery though sadly I can't extend that to the GK
Martinez who always seems to push gamesmanship to its limits. He
might now be reflecting on the truth of the old adage 'what goes
round comes around'. The referee had a decent game I thought in
a pretty fired up Villa Park though the paucity of added on time
is perplexing.
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