Football match fixing?

finchy
finchy Posts: 6,686
edited December 2011 in The bottom bracket
Bit surprised that no-one else has mentioned this yet, but did anyone see Lyon-Dinamo Zagreb and Ajax-Real Madrid the other night?

Going into the match, Real Madrid were already through in 1st place, Ajax in 2nd, Lyon in 3rd and Zagreb were already out.

So the final place was going to be between Ajax, on 8 points with a +3 goal difference and Lyon on 5 points and -4 goal difference. Cue two wrongly disallowed Ajax goals and Lyon scoring 7 against Zagreb, the last 6 of which the Croatians seemed very disinterested in.

Match highlights:

http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/di ... -1-lyon-7/

http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/aj ... adrid-3-2/

So what do all reckon? Fixed?

Comments

  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Don't really pay attention to the champions league. Was chuffed the Mancs got stuffed. As for your post I'm sure UEFA will investigate should a complaint be lodged.
    Tail end Charlie

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    Certainly what the Dutch are saying.....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Is it just the unusual results drawing attention or is there any equally unusual betting patterns being reported alongside them?
  • tim_wand
    tim_wand Posts: 2,552
    Too busy P*ssing myself with laughter at City and the SCUM going out.

    But at the end of the day Platini is french and hates anyone qualifying other than the french and Blatte definitely does bum tricks for cash.

    Now only two English teams got through watch Platini try and cut our number of places.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    verylonglegs wrote:
    Is it just the unusual results drawing attention or is there any equally unusual betting patterns being reported alongside them?

    UEFA have said they aren't going to investigate because there have been no unusual betting patterns, but it's not just gamblers who might fix a match. I imagine that Lyon would pay a fair amount to go through to the next round.

    It's also not just the result, it's the way that Dinamo Zagreb let 6 goals in through very sloppy defending and Ajax had 2 perfectly good goals disallowed.

    I know that this could be a case of people (including me) making 2 + 2 = 5, but I really can't see how a professional side could let in 6 such soft goals.
  • random man
    random man Posts: 1,518
    I agree - those results looked very iffy to me as well. It wouldn't be the first European game to be fixed, and given the corruption in football *allegedly* I don't think it will be the last.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Together they may look suspicious but Man United put 7 past Roma before in the same competition a few years ago and also remember the 8-2 Arsenal match earlier in the season. Dubious dis-allowed goals when playing against teams like Real Madrid is not unusual either.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    tim wand wrote:
    Too busy P*ssing myself with laughter at City and the SCUM going out.

    Poor old ABUs.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Football results that are mutually beneficial happen all the time in Italy.

    There's no real incentive to stop those happening.

    Wouldn't calling it 'fixing'.
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