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For the battle between Arsenal and Queens Park Rangers we had ref Atkinson in the Emirates. How did he score?
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | points | weight |
|
2 |
OTHER | Mackie | Koscielny | NC | Backed into defender preventing Kos from cleanly heading ball |
0 |
0 |
|
3 |
OTHER | SWP | Arshavin | NC | Lunged in – not given |
0 |
0 |
|
5 |
OTHER | Faurlin | Song | C | Holding – advantage played |
1 |
1 |
|
11 |
OTHER | Bothroyd | Mertesacker | C | Foul |
1 |
1 |
|
18 |
OFFSIDE | SWP | C |
1 |
1 |
||
|
19 |
OTHER | Taarabt | Arshavin | NC | Raised forearm/elbow to the face – not given |
0 |
0 |
|
19 |
RED | Taarabt | NC | Violent play – should have been sent off. |
0 |
0 |
|
|
20 |
OTHER | SWP | Djourou | NC | Shove on defender – not given – Arsenal lose possession |
0 |
0 |
|
21 |
OTHER | Barton | Arteta | C | Elbowed in the back |
1 |
1 |
|
21 |
YELLOW | Barton | NC | Dirty play deserved a yellow – not given |
0 |
0 |
|
|
21 |
OTHER | Song | SWP | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
22 |
OTHER | Barton | Ramsey | NC | Late kick to the foot – not given |
0 |
0 |
|
27 |
OTHER | Barton | Arteta | C | Lunged in from behind, studs to ankle |
1 |
1 |
|
28 |
RED | Barton | NC | Could have easily broken Arteta’s ankle – ref gave yellow, should have been red |
0 |
1 |
|
|
28 |
OFFSIDE | Arshavin | C | Assumed correct |
1 |
1 |
|
|
29 |
OTHER | Bothroyd | Koscielny | C | Holding |
1 |
1 |
|
31 |
OFFSIDE | Mackie | C |
1 |
1 |
||
|
33 |
OTHER | Young | NC | Handball – not given |
0 |
0 |
|
|
33 |
PENALTY | NC | Threw himself at the ball with his arms raised and extended. When a defender plays like a goalie and handles the ball, it’s a penalty |
0 |
0 |
||
|
36 |
OTHER | Koscielny | SWP | C | Trip – advantage played |
1 |
1 |
|
37 |
YELLOW | Vermaelen | NC | Ref booked wrong player. While Kos touched the ball, his hips followed through on SWP tripping him. I would have given ref points for the card had he given it to the right person. |
0 |
0 |
|
|
38 |
OTHER | Song | Taarabt | C | Foul |
1 |
1 |
|
39 |
OTHER | Connolly | Ramsey | C | Tug – advantage played |
1 |
1 |
|
39 |
OTHER | Djourou | Barton | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
39 |
YELLOW | Djourou | C | Stopped attack |
1 |
2 |
|
|
41 |
OTHER | Barton | NC | Hanball |
0 |
0 |
|
|
41 |
PENALTY | NC | Barton’s arm was out from his body and it looked like he moved it to block cross which wasn’t hit overly hard either – penalty not given |
0 |
0 |
||
|
44 |
OTHER | Djourou | Taarabt | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
| 45+2 | OTHER | Bothroyd | Koscielny | C | Foul |
1 |
1 |
| Half time |
16 |
18 |
|||||
| CORRECT |
55,17% |
45,00% |
|||||
| YELLOW |
1 |
3 |
33,33 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
2 |
0,00 |
||||
| PENALTY |
0 |
2 |
0,00 |
||||
| GOAL |
0 |
0 |
|||||
| OTHER |
4 |
7 |
57,14 |
||||
|
5 |
14 |
35,71 |
|||||
| OFFSIDE |
3 |
3 |
100,00 |
||||
| Second half | |||||||
|
46 |
OTHER | Song | Barton | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
47 |
OFFSIDE | Mackie | C |
1 |
1 |
||
|
48 |
OTHER | Taarabt | Djourou | C | Foul |
1 |
1 |
|
50 |
OFFSIDE | SWP | C |
1 |
1 |
||
|
51 |
OFFSIDE | Mackie | C | Assumed correct |
1 |
1 |
|
|
52 |
OFFSIDE | Walcott | C | Assumed correct |
1 |
1 |
|
|
54 |
OTHER | Young | Walcott | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
54 |
YELLOW | Young | C | Killed attack – similar to Djourou’s booking |
1 |
2 |
|
|
55 |
OFFSIDE | Walcott | C |
1 |
1 |
||
|
55 |
OTHER | Arteta | SWP | C | It looked like both were holding each other – but I’ll give ref benefit of doubt |
1 |
1 |
|
58 |
OTHER | Taarabt | Arteta | NC | Holding – not given |
0 |
0 |
|
60 |
GOAL | C | Van Persie – just onside, goal okay |
1 |
3 |
||
|
63 |
OTHER | Mackie | Arteta | C | Push |
1 |
1 |
|
67 |
OTHER | SWP | Coquelin | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
68 |
OTHER | Barton | Arteta | NC | Both players challenged with raised arms but Barton swung his arm |
0 |
0 |
|
71 |
OTHER | Ramsey | Faurlin | C | Foul |
1 |
1 |
|
71 |
OTHER | Koscielny | Mackie | NC | Linesman called a trip but Mackie first fouled Kos by grabbing his jersey. Mackie also waved ball in Kos’s face for which he might have been booked |
0 |
0 |
|
72 |
OTHER | RVP | Barton | NC | Looked a fine tackle by RVP, from side, won ball, Barton made a meal of it. |
0 |
0 |
|
73 |
PENALTY | C | Taarabt used his arm to hold off Coquelin, Coquelin grabbed Taarabt’s shirt for a second, Tarrabt thren dived. Might have been given, but no-call is acceptable |
1 |
3 |
||
|
80 |
OFFSIDE | Gervinho | C |
1 |
1 |
||
|
81 |
OTHER | Orr | Rosicky | C | Raised boot |
1 |
1 |
|
81 |
OTHER | RVP | NC | Hanball – not given |
0 |
0 |
|
|
81 |
OTHER | Gabbidon | RVP | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
85 |
OTHER | Song | Faurlin | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
85 |
OTHER | NC | Goal kick wrongly given to Arsenal – ball last off Mertesacker |
0 |
0 |
||
|
86 |
OFFSIDE | RVP | C | RVP should have let the ball run to Gervinho who wasn’t offside. Robin was though |
1 |
1 |
|
|
87 |
OTHER | Campbell | Szczesny | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
| 90+3 | PENALTY | C | Gervinho went down but ball was won fairly – good no-call |
1 |
3 |
||
| 90+3 | OTHER | Koscielny | Taarabt | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
| 2nd half score | |||||||
| TOTAL |
23 |
30 |
|||||
| % | CORRECT |
79,31% |
83,33% |
||||
| YELLOW |
1 |
1 |
100,00 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
0 |
|||||
| PENALTY |
2 |
2 |
100,00 |
||||
| GOAL |
1 |
1 |
100,00 |
||||
| OTHER |
1 |
3 |
33,33 |
||||
|
5 |
7 |
71,43 |
|||||
| OFFSIDE |
7 |
7 |
100,00 |
||||
| TOTAL SCORE | |||||||
| TOTAL |
39 |
48 |
|||||
| % | CORRECT |
67,24% |
63,16% |
||||
| YELLOW |
2 |
4 |
50,00 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
2 |
0,00 |
||||
| PENALTY |
2 |
4 |
50,00 |
||||
| GOAL |
1 |
1 |
100,00 |
||||
| OTHER |
5 |
10 |
50,00 |
||||
|
10 |
21 |
47,62 |
|||||
| OFFSIDE |
10 |
10 |
100,00 |
||||
| Correct calls | For Arsenal |
22 |
56,41% |
||||
| For QPR |
17 |
43,59% |
|||||
| Total correct calls |
39 |
||||||
| Wrong calls | Against Arsenal |
16 |
88,89% |
||||
| Against QPR |
2 |
11,11% |
|||||
| Total |
18 |
||||||
| Total fouls made by | Arsenal |
11 |
33,33% |
||||
| QPR |
22 |
66,67% |
|||||
| Total |
33 |
Really strange performance by Atkinson. The first half he was a nightmare. The 2nd half he was quite good.
Barton was up to his usual tricks with an X-rated lunge on Arteta’s ankle. Though Atkinson didn’t send off Barton like he should have, he did give Barton a yellow card and so the ex-convict/football player had to restrain himself for the rest of the match.
Taarabt also got away with what should have been a red card, throwing his forearm/elbow into Arshavin’s face. Shockingly Atkinson was looking right at it, but didn’t even deem it a foul.
Arsenal also had two penalty shouts in the first half. In the first instance, Luke Young slid in with his arms extended and raised to the level of his head, blocking the ball almost as if he were the goalkeeper. When a defender plays the ball like a goalie and handles the ball, it should be a penalty.
In the second instance the cross wasn’t hit that hard and Barton’s arm was extended and it wasn’t point blank range either. This also should have been a penalty.
With all the wrong calls going against Arsenal in the first half, Atkinson was quite decent in the second half. Definitely a tale of two halves.
In the end a very low score and if you like to take a look at the comment section of our Ref Watch you will see that I predicted for this ref that he would score low on the important calls. And all this based on the numbers we have gathered in the ref reviews so far. Must say, even I am amazed