Shaka Hislop
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It's on Kubasi in that position to avoid the contact with Giuliano Simeone.
And once he doesn't, I don't think the ref had any other choice but to show red.
And listen, again, I hear the argument, you don't want a game on this level determined by this kind of an error.
But the truth is, games throughout, every single game is determined by one error or another, forced or unenforced.
This was an unforced error by Pubella.
There's no question about it.
I find, to use the language used, common sense by Diego Simeone, the referee choosing to apply or not apply the laws written in that one situation kind of opens up a kind of worms as to what the referee determines anywhere else on the park.
Now, while he's the referee and ultimately final decisions lie with him,
As players, you come to expect a certain following of the laws and this was not one.
So again, for Poubile, he got away with murder in this instance.
The weird thing about this to me is, even as I'm looking at it, it seems that Poubile is looking at Moussa as Moussa takes the kick.
What he's seeing, what he's thinking, how he makes that mistake, however he makes the mistake, it's a mistake.
And it should have cost him, well, to Hansi Fleck's point, the penalty and the second yellow team card.
I think Barcelona goes through.
And to pick up on something Sid said about Atletico Madrid changing, kind of given what happened to Copa del Rio over two legs,