Originally Posted by
classics
That was before...
Man City game - Kovacic's 1st foul only deemed worthy of a yellow card, 2nd foul wasn't deemed worthy of a 2nd yellow card.
Chelsea game - Mudryk point blank header into Saliba's arm, penalty given. Sanchez wipes out Jesus in the penalty box, no penalty given.
Although the challenge by Havartz was stupid, in my opinion it was only worthy of a yellow card because it was his trailing leg/foot, had it been Xhaka I'm sure the referee would have given a red card and VAR wouldn't have overturn it.
I believe Gumirares commited 3 fouls worthy of a yellow card, the referee didn't see the first two fouls, 1st forearm into Jorginho head, 2nd a very physical barge into the back of Jorginho (off the ball) and 3rd ungentlemanly conduct kicking the ball at short distance at Havertz from a freekick to get him a 2nd yellow card, that is why Rice went up to/have a go at him.
I personally don't think the ball went out of play, but there was a two hand push by Linton on Gabriel, no conclusive handball by Linton and from video it does look like Gordon is offside, he is behind Raya but front of Gabriel for his goal. Arsenal had a goal rule out a couple of seasons ago, against Watford there was 2 Arsenal players (Aubameyang & Saka) and 1 opposition defender behind the goalkeeper (Foster).
VAR/Camera angle could not prove the ball was out so they go with the on field decision which should be the right decision, but the assistant ref/linesman was 1.well behind the play/ball, 2. if was he was in line with the ball both the goalposts and possible the net would interfere with his sight on the ball, so probably would of guess if the ball was in or out. Arsenal did have something similar against Liverpool last season, Saka coming back from an offside position, the assistant ref/linesman kept his flag down, he collected a ball from White then pass it to Martinelli to a score a goal, it went to VAR, but they didn't have a camera angle of where Saka was when the ball was played.