Untold Ref Review Marseille 0 – Arsenal 1. For once luck does balance out. « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
By Ref reviewer 04
For our game in the CL in Marseille we had ref Skomina from Slovenia. Ever heard of him? Well I hadn’t until the match.
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | points | weight |
|
4 |
OTHER | Song | Remy | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
4 |
YELLOW | Song | C | Breaking up a possible promising attack. Correct card |
1 |
2 |
|
|
6 |
OFFSIDE | Marseille | C |
1 |
1 |
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|
7 |
OTHER | Cheyrou | Santos | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
8 |
OFFSIDE | Marseille | C |
1 |
1 |
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|
10 |
OFFSIDE | RVP | c |
1 |
1 |
||
|
11 |
OTHER | Arshavin | Valbuena | NC | Trip not given |
0 |
0 |
|
12 |
OTHER | Diara | Arshavin | C | Push in the back |
1 |
1 |
|
13 |
PENALTY | Jenkinson | NC | Jenkinson handled the ball with his arm |
0 |
0 |
|
|
13 |
YELLOW | Ayew | C | Dissent against the non decision. Maybe understandable but not allowed |
1 |
2 |
|
|
15 |
OTHER | Valbuena | Arteta | C | Push |
1 |
1 |
|
15 |
OTHER | Lucho | Rosicky | C | Nothing given the ref was running behind them so should have had it correct |
1 |
1 |
|
16 |
OTHER | Santos | Valbuena | C | Strong body check |
1 |
1 |
|
16 |
YELLOW | Santos | C | Too much violent charge |
1 |
2 |
|
|
19 |
PENALTY | Diara | NC | Handball from the French defender. Hand raised next to his head. |
0 |
0 |
|
|
34 |
OTHER | Valbuena | Song | C | Pull |
1 |
1 |
|
37 |
OTHER | Santos | Valbuena | C | Little contact on his foot |
1 |
1 |
|
40 |
OTHER | Rosicky | NC | Tackle on the ball but also got the man a bit |
0 |
0 |
|
|
41 |
OTHER | Cesar | Walcott | C | Push |
1 |
1 |
|
46 |
OTHER | Santos | C | Handball |
1 |
1 |
|
|
46 |
OTHER | Ayew | Szczesny | C | Touched the keeper by the arm when he held the ball in the air |
1 |
1 |
| Half time |
17 |
20 |
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| CORRECT |
80,95% |
71,43% |
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| YELLOW |
3 |
3 |
100,00 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
0 |
|||||
| PENALTY |
0 |
2 |
0,00 |
||||
| GOAL |
0 |
0 |
|||||
| OTHER |
2 |
2 |
100,00 |
||||
|
5 |
7 |
71,43 |
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| OFFSIDE |
3 |
3 |
100,00 |
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| Second half | |||||||
|
48 |
OTHER | Diawara | Arshavin | C | Strong body check |
1 |
1 |
|
48 |
YELLOW | Diawara | C | Similar to the Santos booking. Consistency is the key |
1 |
1 |
|
|
50 |
OTHER | M4 | Rosicky | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
51 |
OTHER | Jenkinson | Morel | C | Push in the back |
1 |
1 |
|
52 |
OTHER | RVP | Lucho | C | Push |
1 |
1 |
|
54 |
OTHER | Arteta | Morel | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
55 |
OFFSIDE | Marseille | C |
1 |
1 |
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|
63 |
OTHER | m15 | Walcott | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
64 |
PENALTY | m3 | Walcott | C | Did he caugth Theo on his leg? Replay is not clear so I give the ref the benefit of the doubt |
1 |
3 |
|
66 |
OTHER | m3 | RVP | NC | Little pull but on the ref his blind side. But it was a foul and gave the defender the advantage |
0 |
0 |
|
67 |
OTHER | Song | M20 | C | Push |
1 |
1 |
|
68 |
OFFSIDE | RVP | C | Close but correct |
1 |
1 |
|
|
69 |
OFFSIDE | Gervinho | NC | He was level. But the assistant was not on his line and saw it wrong |
0 |
0 |
|
|
70 |
OTHER | Diara | Santos | C | Little pull |
1 |
1 |
|
71 |
OTHER | Djourou | Ayew | C | Little knock from behind |
1 |
1 |
|
74 |
OTHER | Djourou | Morel | NC | Djourou slides over the turf with his feet on the ground and blocks the ball. The defender falls because of the ball being blocked. Not a foul. |
0 |
0 |
|
74 |
YELLOW | Djourou | NC | He cant book him for this foul as it was a regular tackle. The only thing I can think of was maybe book him for dissent? |
0 |
1 |
|
|
75 |
OTHER | Valbuena | Song | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
76 |
OTHER | Rosicky | Valbuena | C | Push |
1 |
1 |
|
77 |
OFFSIDE | Marseille | C |
1 |
1 |
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|
79 |
OFFSIDE | RVP | C | The assistant raised his flag when the cross was given but as soon as he realised the ball was very high over RVP he took his flag down. This is why we have to wait and see before we signal an offside |
1 |
1 |
|
|
81 |
OTHER | Koscielny | Cignac | NC | For me it was an obstruction against the striker and Koscielny also used his arm to block him |
0 |
0 |
|
81 |
RED | Koscielny | NC | As he was the last defender he should have gotten a red card for this |
0 |
0 |
|
|
82 |
OTHER | Ayew | Song | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
|
82 |
YELLOW | Cignac | C | Cignac moaned about the earlier not given decision and gets a yellow card |
1 |
1 |
|
|
85 |
OFFSIDE | RVP | C |
1 |
1 |
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|
89 |
OTHER | Djourou | Ayew | C | Pull |
1 |
1 |
|
90 |
OTHER | Marseille | Rosicky | C | Advantage given which leads to RVP almost scoring |
1 |
1 |
|
92 |
GOAL | Arsenal | C | Correct goal |
1 |
3 |
|
|
94 |
OTHER | Nkolou | Gervinho | C | Trip |
1 |
1 |
| 2nd half score | |||||||
| TOTAL |
24 |
29 |
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| % | CORRECT |
80,00% |
78,38% |
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| YELLOW |
2 |
3 |
66,67 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
1 |
0,00 |
||||
| PENALTY |
1 |
1 |
100,00 |
||||
| GOAL |
1 |
1 |
100,00 |
||||
| OTHER |
1 |
3 |
33,33 |
||||
|
5 |
9 |
55,56 |
|||||
| OFFSIDE |
5 |
6 |
83,33 |
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| TOTAL SCORE | |||||||
| TOTAL |
41 |
49 |
|||||
| % | CORRECT |
80,39% |
75,38% |
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| YELLOW |
5 |
6 |
83,33 |
||||
| RED |
0 |
1 |
0,00 |
||||
| PENALTY |
1 |
3 |
33,33 |
||||
| GOAL |
1 |
1 |
100,00 |
||||
| OTHER |
3 |
5 |
60,00 |
||||
|
10 |
16 |
62,50 |
|||||
| OFFSIDE |
8 |
9 |
88,89 |
||||
| Correct calls | For Arsenal |
23 |
57,50% |
||||
| For Marseille |
17 |
42,50% |
|||||
| Total correct calls |
40 |
||||||
| Wrong calls | Against Arsenal |
5 |
50,00% |
||||
| Against Marseille |
5 |
50,00% |
|||||
| Total |
10 |
The ref made a few mistakes. Hence his low score on the important decisions.
He missed two penalties for handball. So even with 6 refs around the field they keep on missing them. And in fact the reason for missing them was because of Uefa changing the extra refs to the other side of the goal during the summer. Maybe if they still would have been on the other side of the goal they should have seen it. Oh well.
I also thought Koscielny was very lucky to stay on the pitch. He blocked the path of Cignac late in the game and as he was the last defender he was lucky the ref didn’t give a foul. For me it was a foul and then he should have give the red card also. So we were lucky on that.
Arsenal also could have had a penalty for a foul on Walcott when he took a low shot from short distance. But as the replays were all from the wrong angle I couldn’t be sure if the defender had taken his standing leg away or not. It looked that way but as I could not be sure I gave the ref the benefit of the doubt. If it was a foul the Marseille player also should have gotten a red card.
So rather a few mistakes but he divided his mistakes nicely over the two teams. I never had the impression that this ref was trying to tilt the game one way or the other and his overall decision making was rather good.
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