He got the ball first and played it. The defender missed the ball and Kessie's follow through stepped on the foot. Its fucking silly to be given both yellows within 30 minutes of a game for tackles happening both ways and are still happening.
No yellow for Suarez as he stomps on the hand of our GK. Good fair treatment from this fucking piece of shit ref.
The Messi goal was nice but these announcers are going on like it’s one of his best ever when I’m not sure it’s even the nicest goal today
SugarShaun Henry dunking on those ballbag buffoons Richards and Carragher is lovely. More of him, CBS.
Seriously... fuck that ref. Milan dominated the first 30 minutes of that game. double yellow on absolute bullshit and that penalty to cap off the night.
The club badge is a real “don’t know what I expected”. interestingly, their named for their sponsor, who per wiki: “include nearly all forms of profitable private business in the unrecognised country” Spoiler Sheriff owns a chain of petrol stations, a chain of supermarkets, a TV channel, a publishing house, a construction company, a Mercedes-Benz dealer, an advertising agency, a spirits factory, two breadfactories, a mobile phone network, the football club FC Sheriff Tiraspol and its newly built Sheriff Stadium at an estimated cost of $200 million[3]including a five-star hotel still under construction.
There's a Twitter thread and Athletic article on the last page about how they're run by former KGB organized crime guys
Transnistria itself seems like something that should only exist in a crime novel. It's absolutely wild they now have a club in the Champions League and won at the Bernabeu.
With Ajax and Shakhtar supplying eye-opening upsets over Madrid the past two seasons, and yet Madrid going on to finish above Barca in La Liga and further in UCL, I'm perplexed at what their fans are so amused by.