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The tie was ultimately lost in the first leg.

Wasn't a penalty. Wasn't in control of the ball after the touch, ball was already out of play. Firm believer of the idea the player should be retaining possession of the ball if they aren't clattered into for it to be a foul. None of this hitting the ball miles away in a random direction and...

Agree with most of this except the goal. Sure a bit of a lucky flick through from the defensive header, but a lesser heart than Vidal's would've just watched the ball bobble through. Instead he had the passion to sprint in and stretch a foot out to narrowly control it and turn nothing into...

I started celebrating on the ball through, then sat down again when I saw it had landed to Gio. The kind of night he had I just knew he wouldn't think and would just hit it right at the keeper.

Giovinco is too much of a diver for my liking. So much playacting. Endlessly see him try to go past someone, touch it far too heavily, he realises this then throws himself to the ground. Pretty sure that free kick at the very end just outside the area was a dive too.

Yeah actually, doubly so this. Was it Giovinco who deflected the corner? What good did that do? Do we honestly expect a short player to do an effective block from there? No. So put him on the post, infinitely more useful there.

Can I just say - had we played the most basic corner defence in the sport - that is, have a fucking man on the back fucking post - we'd be playing extra time right now. Why don't we? I never understand it. Simply have a man on the post. The amount of times you see a weak shot of scuffed...

Giovinco was too concerned with trying to con the referee into getting decisions rather than actually playing football. His touch was atrocious, and he should have scored from the restart of Lazio's second. Remarkably disappointing performance from him tonight. And Marchisio should have scored...