2021-2022 UEFA Referee Discussion [R]

BOLOGNA RECEIVE TWO RED CARDS IN THE 84TH MINUTE. 😳 pic.twitter.com/zF3U6DHCyF

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VAR was supposed to end dissent...I thought.

Even though Medel has been a dick his entire career, the referee totally egged Medel on here and drew the second red card.

 

Juan Luca Sacchi has quite a funny style, you can see him screaming at Gerard Deulofeu in another game if you look online. I actually quite like it! He doesn't let himself be the 'loser' when the players challenge his authority (same as Sánchez Martínez). For this reason, I'm not even sure the yellow card was necessary here. And did Sacchi send him off for foul and abusive, or with a SYC for dissent? If the latter, then we can say that Sacchi lost his composure in this scene too, with the (lack of) card showing procedure.

 

Keith Hackett:

Felipe’s early elbow to the back of Phil Foden’s head, albeit unintentional, which left the Manchester City midfielder bleeding and requiring a bandage, was reckless at a bare minimum, undoubtedly a yellow card and potentially more. Incredibly, he received no punishment.

How was that allowed to happen? To me, it looked like it met the threshold of a ‘clear and obvious error’ so where was the Video Assistant Referee? If it did not fulfil the criteria then the threshold needs to be lowered because it would have allowed the referee to take another look at the incident.

Well.

 

Hackett forgot to add, “But this isn’t an issue in a Premier League match.”

 

Sorry to dredge up something a month old, but what do you guys think of this DOGSO RC by Turpin from Montpellier-Nice?
Incident starts at 2:44 :

I’m don’t think it’s a foul by the defender, but I understand why Turpin gave it live since my initial thought had been DOGSO as well. There was no VAR intervention, but maybe there should’ve been?

Also there was a somewhat controversial decision by Mateu Lahoz to uphold his on-field call of NO Penalty for handling by Leipzig after an OFR. Incident starts at 4:19 :


I felt the original call was supportable, so I question whether the OFR was warranted.

incidentally, the handling in the wall from the preceding free kick seemed somewhat harsh on replay (unfortunately omitted from the embedded highlights). The player’s arm came up seemingly to protect his face from the oncoming ball. Is that (protecting your face) considered relevant under the current LOTG wrt handling?

 

Personally, I'd be in favor of no intervention here, though this is going by my own clear and obvious standard which would likely lead to VAR being used once out of every 8 to 10 matches.

If there any sort of reasonable debate over something that is "pretty close", leave it alone. Though, that ship has already sailed. I'd be fine with a live call either way on this one, and lean towards handling after looking at the replay.

 

UEFA women's EURO list released. 12+1, with the 1 being Calderas from Venezuela. Pustovoitova missed out on an otherwise certain inclusion. As with the Rapallini - Gil Manzano men's exchange, a European refereeing team will be at the Copa America Femenina 2022.

Several familiar names in the VAR list, including Kavanagh, Cuadra Fernandez, Dingert, Mariani, and van Boekel.

http://www.uefa.com/womenseuro/news...4-1000--uefa-women-s-euro-referees-appointed/

 

What was the restart after the red?

 

Full sequence: https://streamable.com/zwxean

I don't think Sacchi is ever going to blow up for the Adam challenge, rather a chaotic play on there. His whistle seems to be held on Medel's (a bit crazy) tackle, where as there is no contact, he can just play a passive advantage.

The ref doesn't do himself any favours by his passive manner in the review portion of the incident, but I'm not completely convinced that Morata is definitely fouled. He puts his leg across an opponent not trying to tackle the ball, but rather block it. In any case, having done that (ie. given up the chance of running in at goal), is it really a DOGSO? I ask that rather rhetorically, as foul is surely the expected call.

 

The situation is complicated as it seems that the (Juventus) players are much more focused on mobbing Sacchi even while the ball is in play, so despite hitting the crossbar, they are most interested in getting this decision, much more than the goal chance that follows.

As you rightly note, the advantage thing is a whole can of worms here. These are excellent questions that you raise, and should be considered by seminar instructors at the highest levels, but I fear each situation will be so specific that it is hard to actually have any hard-and-fast rules in place.

Here, we are influenced by: 1) Juve players being more interested in mobbing Sacchi than actually scoring(!), despite as you say this chance being very considerable; 2) this scene not really being DOGSO as Morata checks, I guess we are saying that in a 'clear' DOGSO scene, it would actually be inconceivable for a referee to play advantage.

If Sacchi does play a very visible advantage on the Adams foul, then... to be honest, I don't think that the intervention happens to be honest(?), as the situation is grey enough for that to be supported, I guess dependant on how 'obvious' and advantageous the advantage was. If it is ultra-obvious (like 100% open goal), then I guess the blame would shift from ref to player, no OFR. If a poor advantage call with scant real goal chance, then I guess RC would be given no problem. It is the middle scenes (like this one) where it becomes a really hard and a real judgement call.

As you say, very interesting situation indeed!

 

Man, this clip brings up my Vietnam flashbacks of the worst no-call of my "career" last fall when a GK did a clear DOGSO foul on an attacker, I knew it was DOGSO, bringing up my whistle to my mouth, but attacker stayed on his feet and was looking at an open PA so wound up for a shot, I called advantage, then a defender races in full speed and clears the ball off the goal line. I nearly fell to my knees yelling out and had to give the keeper a YC only and a corner kick and the protestations from the crowd and the coaches yelling about how I can't give advantage on DOGSO.

God help this referee and anyone else who has to go through such a situation. I can't think of a tougher call than these rare situations where you play advantage on a PA foul or DOGSO and then the team doesn't capitalize with a goal on the advantage you're playing.

 

Frappart to referee the French Cup final between Nice and Nantes.

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.c...rst-woman-to-referee-a-coupe-de-france-final/

 

Sure is strange not seeing the likes of Brych, Cakir, Kuipers and Skomina etc as we have become accustomed to over the last decade.

Breakout season for Kovacs for sure, no doubt taking advantage of the misfortune that has befallen his countryman.