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By Ref Reviewer 03
For the game between Manchester United and Wigan we had ref Phil Dowd. Any controversy to report about this game?
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | points | weight |
|
1 |
OTHER | Alcaraz | Berbatov | C | Slight trip |
1 |
1 |
|
4 |
OTHER | Sammon | Valencia | C | Held shirt |
1 |
1 |
|
8 |
GOAL | C | Park – goal okay |
1 |
3 |
||
|
10 |
OTHER | McCarthy | Carrick | C | High kick |
1 |
1 |
|
17 |
PENALTY | C | Chicharito went down looking for it, not enough contact for me – good no-call |
1 |
3 |
||
|
22 |
OTHER | Jones | Park | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
22 |
YELLOW | Jones | NC | It was an innocuous trip, 1st foul, no real scoring chance – wrong to give card |
0 |
0 |
|
|
24 |
OTHER | Evans | Gomez | C | Frontal tackle studs to ankle |
1 |
1 |
|
24 |
RED | Evans | NC | Potentially leg-breaking tackle – should have seen red, ref gave yellow |
0 |
1 |
|
|
25 |
OTHER | Diame | Park | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
26 |
OTHER | Figueroa | Berbatov | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
32 |
OTHER | Valencia | Gomez | C | Foul |
1 |
1 |
|
37 |
OTHER | Evans | Sammon | C | Foul – not shown, assumed correct |
1 |
1 |
|
38 |
OTHER | Sammon | C | Handball |
1 |
1 |
|
|
39 |
OTHER | Sammon | Carrick | C | Used hand to face to win high ball |
1 |
1 |
|
39 |
RED | Sammon | NC | Ridiculously sent off – FA overturned this on appeal |
0 |
0 |
|
|
41 |
GOAL | C | Berbatov – goal okay |
1 |
3 |
||
| 45+2 | PENALTY | C | Figueroa won ball, Chicharito then fell over him – good no-call |
1 |
3 |
||
| Half time |
15 |
24 |
|||||
| CORRECT |
83,33% |
77,42% |
|||||
| YELLOW |
0 |
1 |
0,00 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
2 |
0,00 |
||||
| PENALTY |
2 |
2 |
100,00 |
||||
| GOAL |
2 |
2 |
100,00 |
||||
| OTHER |
2 |
2 |
100,00 |
||||
|
6 |
9 |
66,67 |
|||||
| OFFSIDE |
0 |
0 |
|||||
| Second half | |||||||
|
47 |
OTHER | Moses | Carrick | C | Shove |
1 |
1 |
|
50 |
PENALTY | C | Moses went down too easily under pressure byValencia– good no-call |
1 |
3 |
||
|
53 |
OTHER | Evra | Moses | C | Shove |
1 |
1 |
|
54 |
OTHER | Evra | Moses | C | Got ball and player |
1 |
1 |
|
58 |
PENALTY | C | Looked a bit of holding by both players – good no-call |
1 |
3 |
||
|
58 |
GOAL | C | Berbatov – goal okay |
1 |
3 |
||
|
62 |
OTHER | Giggs | Gomez | C | Pulled arm back and tripped from behind |
1 |
1 |
|
62 |
YELLOW | Giggs | C | Unsporting behaviour |
1 |
2 |
|
|
63 |
OTHER | Nani | Figueroa | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
65 |
OTHER | Macheda | Stam | C | Push |
1 |
1 |
|
69 |
OTHER | Rooney | C | Handball |
1 |
1 |
|
|
75 |
GOAL | C | Valencia – goal okay |
1 |
3 |
||
|
77 |
OTHER | Alcaraz | Park | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
77 |
PENALTY | C | Contact looked on the line – close call but correct |
1 |
3 |
||
|
78 |
GOAL | C | Berbatov spot kick – goal okay |
1 |
3 |
||
|
80 |
OTHER | Fryers | Di Santo | C | Hold |
1 |
1 |
|
84 |
OTHER | Fryers | Di Santo | C | Slight trip |
1 |
1 |
|
86 |
OTHER | Alcaraz | Macheda | C | Pulled arm back |
1 |
1 |
|
87 |
OTHER | Evra | McArthur | NC | Trip/handball |
0 |
0 |
| 90+3 | OTHER | Figueroa | Park | C | tackled ball and player – advantage played |
1 |
1 |
| 2nd half score | |||||||
| TOTAL |
19 |
32 |
|||||
| % | CORRECT |
95,00% |
96,97% |
||||
| YELLOW |
1 |
1 |
100,00 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
0 |
|||||
| PENALTY |
3 |
3 |
100,00 |
||||
| GOAL |
3 |
3 |
100,00 |
||||
| OTHER |
0 |
1 |
0,00 |
||||
|
7 |
8 |
87,50 |
|||||
| OFFSIDE |
0 |
0 |
|||||
| TOTAL SCORE | |||||||
| TOTAL |
34 |
56 |
|||||
| % | CORRECT |
89,47% |
87,50% |
||||
| YELLOW |
1 |
2 |
50,00 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
2 |
0,00 |
||||
| PENALTY |
5 |
5 |
100,00 |
||||
| GOAL |
5 |
5 |
100,00 |
||||
| OTHER |
2 |
3 |
66,67 |
||||
|
13 |
17 |
76,47 |
|||||
| OFFSIDE |
0 |
0 |
|||||
| NEW VERSION | 1st half | 2nd half | Total | % | |||
| WRONG | NC F MU 1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|||
| NCF MU 2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
||||
| NCF MU 3 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
||||
| Total normal |
0 |
1 |
1 |
FA MU |
100,00% |
||
| Total important |
3 |
0 |
3 |
FA MU |
100,00% |
||
| General total |
3 |
1 |
4 |
FA MU |
100,00% |
||
| WRONG | NC F WIG 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|||
| NC F WIG 2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
||||
| NC F WIG 3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
||||
| Total normal |
0 |
0 |
0 |
FA WIG |
0,00% |
||
| Total important |
0 |
0 |
0 |
FA WIG |
0,00% |
||
| General total |
0 |
0 |
0 |
FA WIG |
0,00% |
||
| TOTAL NORMAL WRONG |
1 |
||||||
| TOTAL IMPORTANT WRONG |
3 |
||||||
| GENERAL TOTAL |
4 |
||||||
| CORRECT | CF MU 1 |
8 |
4 |
12 |
|||
| CF MU 2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
||||
| CF MU 3 |
2 |
5 |
7 |
||||
| Total normal |
8 |
4 |
12 |
||||
| Total important |
2 |
5 |
7 |
||||
| CORRECT | CF WIG 1 |
3 |
8 |
11 |
|||
| CF WIG 2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
||||
| CF WIG 3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
||||
| Total normal |
3 |
8 |
11 |
||||
| Total Important |
2 |
2 |
4 |
||||
| Foul HO |
3 |
9 |
12 |
||||
| FOUL AW |
8 |
4 |
12 |
||||
| OLD VERSION | |||||||
| Correct calls | For Man U |
12 |
52,17% |
||||
| For Wigan |
11 |
47,83% |
|||||
| Total correct calls |
23 |
||||||
| Wrong calls | Against Man U |
0 |
0,00% |
||||
| Against Wigan |
4 |
100,00% |
|||||
| Total |
4 |
||||||
| Total fouls made by | Man U |
12 |
50,00% |
||||
| Wigan |
12 |
50,00% |
|||||
| Total |
24 |
The ref was Phil Dowd and the match was a relatively clean match with not too many fouls, however it was not without controversy.
Manchester’s Korean striker opened the scoring in the 8th minute with a lapse of concentration by the Wigan defense.
Phil Dowd scored very high in this match but he missed a few important calls.
In the 22nd minute, he gave a yellow card to Wigan midfielder, David Jones, for a trip on Ji-sung Park. It was Jones’ first foul, it wasn’t especially reckless or dangerous, and Park wasn’t heading directly on goal.
In the 24th minute, Dowd looked to even things up a bit by booking Johnny Evans for rash challenge. Replays showed that Johnny Evans had made a frontal tackle studs to the ankle of Jordi Gomez. In all fairness to Johnny Evans, he did bend his knee on contact and didn’t go through the player, but this kind of tackle still deserves a red card.
The main talking point of the match however was the sending off of Wigan striker, Conor Sammon, in the 39th minute. Sammon and Fletcher were jockeying for a high ball when Sammon stuck out his arm and caught Fletcher in the face with his outstretched hand. Dowd was a long distance away, saw Sammon had raised his arm, saw Fletcher rubbing his jaw, and wrongly assumed that Sammon had thrown an elbow, sending off the Wigan striker in error.
The red card was later overturned on appeal by the FA, but the damage was done. Wigan was down one to nil and now they were also down to ten men as well. Manchester United scored their second goal two minutes later, adding three more goals in the second half to run out easy 5-0 winners.
Dowd had a near perfect 2nd half and finished with an overall score of 89.47%. Wrong calls favoured Manchester United by 4-0.