Untold Ref Review: Arsenal 2 – Bolton 1; Arsenal get more wrong calls (of course) « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News. Supporting the Lord Wenger; coach of the decade
By Ref Reviewer 04
For the Carling Cup game between Arsenal and Bolton we had ref Taylor as the ref. Not an established PL ref yet, so did he do enough to earn himself a place in the PL?
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | points | weight |
| 2 | OTHER | Arshavin | Steinsson | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | OFFSIDE | Bolton | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10 | OTHER | Muamba | Frimpong | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | OFFSIDE | Arsenal | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14 | OTHER | Squillaci | Pratley | C | Robust challenge | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | YELLOW | Squillaci | C | Ref could have given a yellow card for this. Ref gives Squillaci a warning as this was the first real foul that was on the borderline. An option if you stick to it | 1 | 2 | |
| 17 | OTHER | Throw in given to Bolton | NC | The ball hit the Bolton player who was standin just in the field. Should have been an Arsenal throw | 0 | 0 | |
| 18 | OTHER | Klasnic | Vermaelen | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | OFFSIDE | Arsenal | NC | Was level imo | 0 | 0 | |
| 19 | OTHER | Benayoun | Kakuta | C | Trip, first look if there was advantage then the ref came back to the foul | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | OTHER | Cahill | Park | NC | Cahill has his arms around Park and on his shoulders when he wins the header and he holds Park to the ground | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | OTHER | Squillaci | Klasnic | C | Needles kick at the ankle | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | YELLOW | Squillaci | C | Ref sticks to his promise towards Squillaci and gives him a yellow card | 1 | 2 | |
| 29 | OFFSIDE | Bolton | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 31 | OFFSIDE | Arsenal | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 34 | OTHER | Chamberlain | Pratley | NC | Trip | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | OTHER | Gardner | Chamberlain | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 38 | OFFSIDE | Bolton | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 39 | OTHER | Pratley | C | Pratley loses his footing shields the ball, goes up, goes down again, claims a foul nothing given. | 1 | 1 | |
| 40 | OTHER | Coquelin | Gardner | NC | Trip not given | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | OTHER | Muamba | Arshavin | NC | Muamba played the ball with his right leg but cought Arshavin with the other left leg. Watch the second leg ref. | 0 | 0 |
| Half time | 15 | 17 | |||||
| CORRECT | 71,43% | 73,91% | |||||
| YELLOW | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| RED | |||||||
| PENALTY | |||||||
| GOAL | |||||||
| OTHER | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| 4 | 4 | 100,00 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 6 | 7 | 85,71 | ||||
| Second half | |||||||
| 47 | GOAL | Bolton | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 48 | OTHER | Davies | Chamberlain | NC | Trip nothing given | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | OFFSIDE | Arsenal | C | Benefit of the doubt but looked level | 1 | 1 | |
| 54 | GOAL | Arsenal | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 57 | GOAL | Arsenal | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 59 | OTHER | Ref Taylor | Arshavin | C | Nothing given is correct. The ref brings Arshavin down but in fact he is the only one on the field who can bring a player down without being punished for this. | 1 | 1 |
| 61 | OFFSIDE | Bolton | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 62 | OTHER | Davies | Yennaris | NC | Pushed him in the air | 0 | 0 |
| 63 | OTHER | Frimpong | Davies | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 64 | OTHER | Throw in | NC | Vermaelen kicsk the ball against Ngog the assistant gives the throw to Bolgon | 0 | 0 | |
| 67 | OTHER | Throw in | NC | Ball goes out from an Arsenal player. Again the assistant gives it wrong | 0 | 0 | |
| 68 | OTHER | Gardner | Chamberlain | C | Holding | 1 | 1 |
| 70 | OTHER | Coquelin | Davies | C | Little kick against the ankle | 1 | 1 |
| 73 | OTHER | Steinsson | Ryo | NC | Steinsson catches Ryo late deep in the Arsenal half. The ref signals advantage. Keeping possessions is not the same as advantage ref. Bolton recovers the ball and almost score | 0 | 0 |
| 73 | YELLOW | Steinsson | NC | A late and needless kick, should have been booked | 0 | 0 | |
| 74 | PENALTY | Frimpong | Cahill | C | First a little contact at the foot of Cahill, who goes further and then suddenly goes down when there was no more contact and claims a penalty. | 1 | 3 |
| 79 | OFFSIDE | Arsenal | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 82 | OTHER | Coquelin | Davies | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 89 | OTHER | Benayoun | Gardner | C | Holding | 1 | 1 |
| 90 | OTHER | Ngog | Yennaris | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 2nd half score | |||||||
| TOTAL | 14 | 22 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 70,00% | 75,86% | ||||
| YELLOW | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| RED | 0 | 0 | |||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| 4 | 6 | 66,67 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| TOTAL SCORE | |||||||
| TOTAL | 29 | 39 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 70,73% | 75,00% | ||||
| YELLOW | 2 | 3 | 66,67 | ||||
| RED | 0 | 0 | |||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 2 | 3 | 66,67 | ||||
| 8 | 10 | 80,00 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 8 | 9 | 88,89 | ||||
| Correct calls | For Arsenal | 14 | 50,00% | ||||
| For Bolton | 14 | 50,00% | |||||
| Total correct calls | 28 | ||||||
| Wrong calls | Against Arsenal | 9 | 75,00% | ||||
| Against Bolton | 3 | 25,00% | |||||
| Total | 12 |
He did fine with the important decisions. So that is good.
He tried to keep the game flowing. So that is also good.
But I wondered if he would have an easy games as it happened today if (let us say) K. Davies and Robinson would have been on the field. Because waving away little things can lead to players believing they can do what they want and before you know it dangerous tackles are flying around like flies on a fresh cow dung.
His assistants had a difficult night. A few throw ins went to the wrong team and this was costly for the ref his final numbers.
The one thing I didn’t like was the fact that the wrong calls are once again negative for Arsenal.
Extra note: this review is based on the video that is available from this game. As there weren’t as many cameras as usual we had not as much angles we could look at as usual in the Emirates. Sorry if we missed something because of that.
The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything
—————————————–
——————————-
Untold Arsenal – the (fairly) complete index
With over 2000 followers: Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal