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In the Premier League, referee-related issues have the potential to cause controversy at any time. However, after the introduction of VAR, official real-time explanations, and expert panel post-match review mechanisms, the controversy has not shown a decreasing trend. On the contrary, it sometimes seems to make things more complicated. This week, the Premier League's "Critical Match Incident Panel" announced a new "ruling" that ruled that Gunners center back Gabriel should have been punished for headbutting Haaland during Arsenal's 1-2 away defeat to Manchester City last month. This seems to be the "truth revealed". What Haaland said after the game, "If I fall, the opponent will definitely get a red card" is not nonsense. However, the strange thing is that the experts feel that "it was wrong not to show the red card", but they also feel that "VAR was right not to intervene to correct the error." Do you understand?
Speaking of the conflict at that time, it seemed that the atmosphere was a bit too much. Haaland and Gabriel had close contact with each other, and then the latter made a definite overhead movement. In the eyes of those who support Manchester City, there is no doubt that this is no doubt. How can you not be shown a red card if you have already pushed someone? The supporters of Arsenal also have their own explanation. The Brazilian central defender was not the first to stir up trouble, at least not in this scene. It was Haaland who took the initiative to face him. And Gabe's "overhead" action was more to push the opponent away, and was not a "violent foul" behavior. This view is relatively close to the Premier League official explanation at the time. VAR determined that the Brazilian central defender's actions "were not excessively aggressive or violent."
Each statement has its own truth, so what are the views of professionals and expert groups in this case? In fact, they did not reach a unified opinion, but there were a total of 5 judges in the key game incident team. 3 of them thought it should be a red card, and 2 thought it was not. Based on the vote ratio, the side that advocated sending Gabe off won. However, when reviewing whether the video assistant referee should intervene and overturn the referee's decision, the experts' opinions became different. Only one person felt that he should intervene, and the other four people all believed that the video assistant referee Brooks did not call the referee Anthony Taylor to the screen. This approach was correct.
Therefore, there is an error in the penalty, but there is no great need to correct it? Is that what you mean? This is really a bit difficult to understand. Of course, the review conducted by this expert panel will not change the result of the game at all, and Gabriel will not suffer additional penalties – because the referee on duty has already made the corresponding decision, and VAR has also conducted a review and review, so there will be no further changes.