Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
According to the rules it's a red card and penalty, so it doesn't matter whether it would have been better 11 vs 11 (obviously it would have been), the fact is Chesney made a mistake and we got punished to the letter of the law.

I personally think they should award a goal, because penalty's can be missed (and often are) so if you're clean through with a tap in and then brought back and you miss the penalty you've been punished and the defending team get away with it, so you could just foul the player to give yourself a chance of stopping the goal.

Yes the double punishment is harsh, but those are the rules. If you had this chance missed the penalty and then lost 1-0 it was also be unfair to some extent.

Even if we'd played 11 vs 11 I couldn't see us going through, so I'm not that bothered to be honest, we started very well though but after the penalty we ran out of steam a bit and the game settled down. Bayern would have had spells in the game anyhow and with the players they have a draw probably would have been a good result for us.
In reality it's a triple punishment as you have a suspension for a straight red. Awarding a goal instead, for not actually putting the ball into the net, would then increase the chances of diving. It's an inherent rule within the game that you are only awarded a goal once the ball crosses the line, changing such a fundamental rule would be madness. Of course, the likelihood is that the player would have gone on to score of course, but balance and momentum can affect the easiest of chances as we have seen many times. There is no certainty of a goal until it actually crosses that white line.