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Newcastle So Near Yet So VAR

ESPN FC

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Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to PSG's 1-1 draw with Newcastle which saw a late controversial penalty by Kylian Mbappe deny the Magpies a historic UCL Round of 16 qualification. Frank Leboeuf joins the show to criticize PSG's finishing after a slew of missed chances in the game. Plus, Nicky Bandini breaks down AC Milan's loss vs Borussia Dortmund and the panel celebrates Dan Thomas' birthday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the latest edition of ESPNFC, I'm Dan Thomas.

0:07.0

From the studio today by Craig Burley, Stevie Nickle and Shackle here slot today of course

0:11.0

saw the start of the penultimate round of matches in

0:13.3

the group stages of the Champions League will kick things off in Paris.

0:16.5

PSG 1 Newcastle won but the scoreline certainly doesn't tell half the story.

0:21.3

It'd be Newcastle who would open the scoring in the 24th minute after

0:24.8

Don A Rumour would spill looked like quite a simple shot to save and it would be 1-0 right up until

0:31.0

the 98th minute where a controversial penalty would be awarded for

0:36.4

handball and Bape would convert it and it finishes PSG 1, Newcastle 1.

0:41.6

We're talking about the significance of that result regarding who's going to go through a little later on,

0:47.0

but first let's focus on the game as we welcome in Frank Le Booth is with us.

0:51.0

Frank, forgive me, I'm going to start with a Newcastle man on the panel.

0:53.6

You don't see Shaka angry very often, do you boys?

0:56.0

No.

0:57.0

We did in the 95th minute.

0:58.0

I thought was a ridiculous, a ridiculous decision.

1:02.2

It goes against the green of everything, kind of my own experiences as a

1:06.7

footballer. It goes against when I was on the I-Fab advisory panel how we were trying to reshape the handball law, nothing about this added up.

1:16.4

And it just felt, it felt like an injustice.

1:20.4

But then, one, that if you're a little bit of a cynic and you see how this game is going

1:25.6

You almost expected you felt as though especially when you see eight minutes go off of injury time go off

1:31.6

There were four substitutions made in the game. I'm really not sure where the referee got got eight measures to start with. And you just, I'm sorry, you just felt that something was coming. And this was it. I thought it was a poor decision. I've heard

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