Christian Gentner

[Inigo 32,529]

So Gentner was knocked oot after a challenge by the Wolfsburg goalie, seems to have had convulsions on the pitch and suffered multiple fractures to his lower and lateral eye sockets, nose and upper jaw.

It's always been a mystery to me why goalies get away with leading with the knee the way they do. How is this kind of challenge deemed acceptable considering what else is deemed dangerous these days?

What say the forum?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CkcLHnGmPA

[dummiesoot 16,006]

Shocking and totally should be illegal to raise your knee like that. Over protection for goalies as usual. Rules need to change.

[McEwan's Lager 30,524]

Should be a red card imo.

[Inigo 32,529]

Pretty sure the goalie wasn't even booked/no infringement was given.

[RangersMedia 35,961]

Never understood why goalkeepers get away with this. 

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

What's the difference between that and a raised boot?not a lot really apart from the knee being more dangerous to the player on the receiving end.

[plumbGER 24,518]

Yip, never understood how goalkeepers get off with stuff like this when the slightest nudge on them is deemed a foul.

Hope the boy is ok.

[don logan 8,065]

Oliver Bastard Kahn on Michael Mols. 

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

5 minutes ago, don logan said:

Oliver Bastard Kahn on Michael Mols. 

Aye miles outside his box and Mols gets injured trying to avoid the bastard.

[SIRB_72 4,000]

No punishment during the game for this but if you brush a goalkeeper and they go down it's a free kick!

[don logan 8,065]

10 minutes ago, sandyinroyalblue said:

Aye miles outside his box and Mols gets injured trying to avoid the bastard.

Ruined his career and the cunt got off scot free.

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

12 minutes ago, don logan said:

Ruined his career and the cunt got off scot free.

I hated that Bayern Munich team,dirty cheating bastards.

[Jimfanciesthedude 24,545]

Yet mane gets sent off recently lol

[McEwan's Lager 30,524]

On 17/09/2017 at 22:29, don logan said:

Ruined his career and the cunt got off scot free.

There wasn't really that much wrong with Oliver Kahn's tackle to be honest.

I always remembered it as he completely done him but I was watching the game the other night on YouTube and I was surprised at how run of the mill it was.

[harlands plater 16,975]

That's a shocker. as bad if not worse than Schumacher on Battiston. Bastard knew exactly what he was doing.

[Inigo 32,529]

5 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

There wasn't really that much wrong with Oliver Kahn's tackle to be honest.

I always remembered it as he completely done him but I was watching the game the other night on YouTube and I was surprised at how run of the mill it was.

Khan did absolutely nothing wrong.

[McEwan's Lager 30,524]

2 minutes ago, Inigo said:

Khan did absolutely nothing wrong.

Aye I was really surprised watching the game back.

I was only 9 or 10 when that game was played and vaguely remember watching it at the time, but over the years I've just heard people going on about him and how bad a tackle it was and how he ruined Mols' career.

[Inigo 32,529]

So apparently he swallowed his tongue as well, so it was a genuinely life threatening situation. The club Doctor's prompt treatment was vital.

And still I can't see any discussion in the media about whether that kind of challenge needs dealt with.

Weird blind spot, this kind of challenge.

[Inigo 32,529]

2 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Aye I was really surprised watching the game back.

I was only 9 or 10 when that game was played and vaguely remember watching it at the time, but over the years I've just heard people going on about him and how bad a tackle it was and how he ruined Mols' career.

It's become some kind of weird myth. Some people will still insist he did something wrong even right after watching it. Bizarre.

[dummiesoot 16,006]

Khan did nothing wrong with the challenge on Mols, the bit that annoys me is that he is miles out from goal and had no need to be out there. Probably symptomatic of the doing we were giving them that night, don't think they were thinking that clearly that evening. 

I remember Hitzfeld hiding his face with 10 minutes to go, greatest performance I think I have ever seen from a Rangers team that ended in defeat.

[Dan Deacon 55,216]

Different discipline but this is how to jump and lead with the knee 

 

[harlands plater 16,975]

4 hours ago, dummiesoot said:

Khan did nothing wrong with the challenge on Mols, the bit that annoys me is that he is miles out from goal and had no need to be out there. Probably symptomatic of the doing we were giving them that night, don't think they were thinking that clearly that evening. 

I remember Hitzfeld hiding his face with 10 minutes to go, greatest performance I think I have ever seen from a Rangers team that ended in defeat.

I've always thought that it was Kahn's ego that took him out to the touchline, he was was one of those German players with a supreme self-confidence bordering on arrogance. As if he felt he was so good he could time that run and make a tackle as good as an outfield player in the same situation.

Mols was too much of a gentleman, he landed awakwardly and it looked as if that happened because he was trying to avoid landing on Kahn and maybe injuring him.

I could still weep at the thought of what that incident cost us, probably one of our greatest ever European results, and more importantly a wonderfully talented player was out for a long, long time then he was never the same player again..

[Inigo 32,529]

9 hours ago, dummiesoot said:

Khan did nothing wrong with the challenge on Mols, the bit that annoys me is that he is miles out from goal and had no need to be out there. Probably symptomatic of the doing we were giving them that night, don't think they were thinking that clearly that evening. 

I remember Hitzfeld hiding his face with 10 minutes to go, greatest performance I think I have ever seen from a Rangers team that ended in defeat.

I don't get why him doing something that he's entitled to do would annoy you? Don't see the difference whether it was just outside the box or on the touchline, was just one of those things either way.  We'd have been happy for him to be there if he'd misjudged things and a goal had come from it.

Was indeed a great performance though. The most unlucky performance I've seen us give, I think. Hit the woodwork 3 times and had numerous other chances. Should have beaten Bayern twice that season (remember their hugely deflected freekick equaliser) and qualified but for terrible luck.

[dummiesoot 16,006]

1 hour ago, Inigo said:

I don't get why him doing something that he's entitled to do would annoy you? Don't see the difference whether it was just outside the box or on the touchline, was just one of those things either way.  We'd have been happy for him to be there if he'd misjudged things and a goal had come from it.

Was indeed a great performance though. The most unlucky performance I've seen us give, I think. Hit the woodwork 3 times and had numerous other chances. Should have beaten Bayern twice that season (remember their hugely deflected freekick equaliser) and qualified but for terrible luck.

It annoys me because I think it is one of those chance things, Kahn chose to be out in a part of the pitch I have only seen goalies been in once or  twice before. Very  unusual.

[Creampuff 22,628]

Folk need to stop blaming Khan for Mols' injury. Probably the most common misconception amongst our support.