The Premier League's Independent Key Match Incidents Panel has ruled the referee and the VAR were correct to award Newcastle United's winning goal against Arsenal.
Panel says Newcastle goal vs. Arsenal was correct decision
"The Premier League’s Independent Key Match Incidents Panel has ruled the referee and the VAR were correct to award Newcastle United’s winning goal against Arsenal on Saturday – but the officials missed two red cards.
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta was furious that Anthony Gordon’s winning goal was allowed to stand by referee Stuart Attwell, with three separate VAR checks for the ball being out of play, a foul on Gabriel by Joelinton and offside against the goal scorer. On all three checks the VAR, Andy Madley, could not find conclusive evidence of an offence.
Arsenal as a club doubled down on their criticism of referee on Sunday, issuing a statement in support of Arteta.
The panel’s findings, seen by ESPN, said on a 4-1 vote that “although Joelinton does have his hands on Gabriel, there isn’t enough to award a foul as Gabriel had made an action to play the ball before any contact,” while also upholding the view there wasn’t enough proof to cancel the goal on the two factual offences.
However, the panel was unanimous that Kai Havertz should have been sent off for Arsenal in the 36th minute for his challenge on Sean Longstaff as it was “a very dangerous challenge and the type of tackle that needs to be eradicated” – a decision which would have altered the direction of the game.
Bruno Guimarães’ arm to the head of Arsenal’s Jorginho in the 45th minute was also a missed red card, but on a split 3-2 decision.
The panel has five members, made up of three former players and/or coaches, plus one representative each from the Premier League and PGMOL. It was set up at the start of last season to give an independent assessment of decision-making rather than relying on the views of PGMOL or the clubs themselves. The judgement is intended to provide an arm’s-length assessment of all major match incidents.
Elsewhere, the decision to award a mach-winning injury-time penalty to Sheffield United against Wolverhampton Wanderers was also unanimously viewed to be incorrect – the second time the VAR has incorrectly failed to overturn a spot kick against Gary O’Neil’s side in consecutive weeks.
All other refereeing decisions last weekend, including those in the Tottenham Hotspur vs. Chelsea game, were assessed as being correct."
I don’t know how to accept that isn’t a foul. Like if I have to recalibrate my understanding of the rules of football to include joelintons action as acceptable then nothing makes sense. You can use your arms to control another player as long as that player has already made a movement towards the ball? Like if gabriel wasn’t there then joelinton completely misses the ball by a solid foot, almost like he wasn’t playing the ball at all and was only concerned with pushing gabriel out of the way
Slight pushing in the box is part of the game. If a player falls down every time an opponent challenges for an aerial ball, you aren’t going to call a foul each time. Gabriel went down weakly from an awkward position he put himself in.
To me, Gabriel was intentionally dropping down to flick the ball backwards, not pushed down. The added pressure from Bruno made his header trickier (which is literally what challenging in the air is supposed to do) but it was his odd position, and not that Bruno’s pressure was more than allowable, that made him miss.
Then, because he saw it was going wrong, Gabriel collapsed so to give the ref a reason to deem it a foul. Like so many defenders do these days.
Players should abuse that going forward. On every corner kick, if a player ducks their head a little bit before the ball comes, just push them away. Apparently it doesn’t matter what they do if “they already made a decision.”
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Panel says Newcastle goal vs. Arsenal was correct decision
"The Premier League’s Independent Key Match Incidents Panel has ruled the referee and the VAR were correct to award Newcastle United’s winning goal against Arsenal on Saturday – but the officials missed two red cards.
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta was furious that Anthony Gordon’s winning goal was allowed to stand by referee Stuart Attwell, with three separate VAR checks for the ball being out of play, a foul on Gabriel by Joelinton and offside against the goal scorer. On all three checks the VAR, Andy Madley, could not find conclusive evidence of an offence.
Arsenal as a club doubled down on their criticism of referee on Sunday, issuing a statement in support of Arteta.
The panel’s findings, seen by ESPN, said on a 4-1 vote that “although Joelinton does have his hands on Gabriel, there isn’t enough to award a foul as Gabriel had made an action to play the ball before any contact,” while also upholding the view there wasn’t enough proof to cancel the goal on the two factual offences.
However, the panel was unanimous that Kai Havertz should have been sent off for Arsenal in the 36th minute for his challenge on Sean Longstaff as it was “a very dangerous challenge and the type of tackle that needs to be eradicated” – a decision which would have altered the direction of the game.
Bruno Guimarães’ arm to the head of Arsenal’s Jorginho in the 45th minute was also a missed red card, but on a split 3-2 decision.
The panel has five members, made up of three former players and/or coaches, plus one representative each from the Premier League and PGMOL. It was set up at the start of last season to give an independent assessment of decision-making rather than relying on the views of PGMOL or the clubs themselves. The judgement is intended to provide an arm’s-length assessment of all major match incidents.
Elsewhere, the decision to award a mach-winning injury-time penalty to Sheffield United against Wolverhampton Wanderers was also unanimously viewed to be incorrect – the second time the VAR has incorrectly failed to overturn a spot kick against Gary O’Neil’s side in consecutive weeks.
All other refereeing decisions last weekend, including those in the Tottenham Hotspur vs. Chelsea game, were assessed as being correct."
I am so tired lmao
Is it truly an independent panel if it includes a member of PGMOL? Doesn’t that defeat the point.
I don’t know how to accept that isn’t a foul. Like if I have to recalibrate my understanding of the rules of football to include joelintons action as acceptable then nothing makes sense. You can use your arms to control another player as long as that player has already made a movement towards the ball? Like if gabriel wasn’t there then joelinton completely misses the ball by a solid foot, almost like he wasn’t playing the ball at all and was only concerned with pushing gabriel out of the way
Slight pushing in the box is part of the game. If a player falls down every time an opponent challenges for an aerial ball, you aren’t going to call a foul each time. Gabriel went down weakly from an awkward position he put himself in.
To me, Gabriel was intentionally dropping down to flick the ball backwards, not pushed down. The added pressure from Bruno made his header trickier (which is literally what challenging in the air is supposed to do) but it was his odd position, and not that Bruno’s pressure was more than allowable, that made him miss.
Then, because he saw it was going wrong, Gabriel collapsed so to give the ref a reason to deem it a foul. Like so many defenders do these days.
Players should abuse that going forward. On every corner kick, if a player ducks their head a little bit before the ball comes, just push them away. Apparently it doesn’t matter what they do if “they already made a decision.”