Untold Ref Review: Liverpool 1 – Norwich 1 « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
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For the game between Liverpool and Norwich we had ref Walton in charge. His final score can be found here
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | points | weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | OTHER | Pilkinton | Adam | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | OTHER | Suarez | C | Suarez goes down from the heavy breathing of a defender 1 meter away. Ref doesn’t fall for it | 1 | 1 | |
| 19 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20 | OTHER | Norwich | Suarez | C | Advantage given | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | OTHER | Johnson | Adam | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 24 | OTHER | Downing | Hoolahan | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 30 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | C | Close but correct | 1 | 1 | |
| 30 | YELLOW | Kuyt | NC | Protest very wild and loud. Should not be allowed like that | 0 | 0 | |
| 31 | OTHER | Bennet | Suarez | C | Advantage given | 1 | 1 |
| 32 | OTHER | Tierney | Downing | C | Tackle from behind | 1 | 1 |
| 32 | YELLOW | Tierney | C | Rash tackle from behind | 1 | 2 | |
| 35 | OTHER | Gerrard | Norwich | NC | Trip and tackle from behind | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | GOAL | Liverpool | C | correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 46 | OTHER | Norwich | Suarez | C | Ref gave advantage when Suarez was fouled seconds before Bellamy could score | 1 | 1 |
| Half time | 15 | 18 | |||||
| CORRECT | 88,24% | 85,71% | |||||
| YELLOW | 1 | 2 | 50,00 | ||||
| RED | 0 | 0 | |||||
| PENALTY | 0 | 0 | |||||
| GOAL | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 80,00 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 5 | 5 | 100,00 | ||||
| Second half | |||||||
| 46 | OTHER | Morison | Skrtel | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 46 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 48 | OTHER | Downing | Tierney | C | Frontal sliding tackle | 1 | 1 |
| 48 | YELLOW | Downing | NC | Should have been punished with a yellow card. Dangerous tackle | 0 | 0 | |
| 51 | OTHER | Bennet | Gerrard | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 52 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 53 | OTHER | Bellamy | Bennet | C | Wild challenge | 1 | 1 |
| 53 | YELLOW | Bellamy | NC | Should have been punished with a yellow card. Totally unnecessary challgenge | 0 | 0 | |
| 60 | GOAL | Norwich | C | correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 61 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 74 | OTHER | Norwich | Suarez | NC | Push not given | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | OTHER | Skrtel | Norwich | NC | Holding his opponent by the arm | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | OTHER | Johnson | Adam | C | Push in the back | 1 | 1 |
| 79 | OTHER | Adam | Hoolahan | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 79 | OTHER | Tierney | Suarez | NC | Tierney sticks out a leg at Suarez who, as usual goes down in a split second. Ref gives nothing. Was a foul | 0 | 0 |
| 79 | RED | Tierney | NC | Suarez could have been on his own on goal. Should have been red | 0 | 0 | |
| 81 | OFFSIDE | Liverpool | NC | Suarez takes the shot that goes wide | 0 | 0 | |
| 85 | OTHER | Holt | Carragher | NC | Both players in with a high foot. Carragher caught Holt more than the other way round | 0 | 0 |
| 86 | PENALTY | Adam | Barnett | C | Barnett is first to the ball, the two players clash but the ball was won first and the players just ran in to each other | 1 | 3 |
| 89 | OTHER | Carragher | Holt | NC | Push in the back not given | 0 | 0 |
| 89 | OTHER | Holt | Liverpool | NC | Holt chases his opponent and pushes him also, again nothing given | 0 | 0 |
| 89 | OTHER | Henderson | Johnseon | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 90 | OTHER | Skrtel | Holt | NC | Drags him to the ground | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | OTHER | 3 min extra time | C | Reasonable | 1 | 1 | |
| 94 | OTHER | Martin | Caroll | NC | Looked a fair duel to me | 0 | 0 |
| 2nd half score | |||||||
| TOTAL | 13 | 17 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 52,00% | 51,52% | ||||
| YELLOW | 0 | 2 | 0,00 | ||||
| RED | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 2 | 3 | 66,67 | ||||
| 4 | 8 | 50,00 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 3 | 4 | 75,00 | ||||
| TOTAL SCORE | |||||||
| TOTAL | 28 | 35 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 66,67% | 64,81% | ||||
| YELLOW | 1 | 4 | 25,00 | ||||
| RED | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 4 | 5 | 80,00 | ||||
| 8 | 13 | 61,54 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 8 | 9 | 88,89 | ||||
| Correct calls | For Liverpool | 11 | 42,31% | ||||
| For Norwich | 15 | 57,69% | |||||
| Total correct calls | 26 | ||||||
| Wrong calls | Against Liverpool | 5 | 35,71% | ||||
| Against Norwich | 9 | 64,29% | |||||
| Total | 14 |
A good first half was followed by a not so good second half. Almost no wrong calls in the first half with only 2 and they favoured Liverpool. He couldn’t keep it up in the second half and made a lot of wrong calls.
He missed a foul on Suarez which should have cost Norwich a red card for Tierney. But I guess that is in a way the penalty Suarez and Liverpool are paying for the fact that Suarez goes down a bit easily. I think Suarez could have a great future in Spanish football where they fall for such things.
I also thought it amazing that the ref didn’t blow for the end of the game when the extra time had gone. There was one substitution in the extra time and then you can count another 30 seconds. But with 93min50seconds the ball was at the feet of Reina in the Liverpool penalty area. So no need for the ref to let the game continue as the extra 30 seconds had been gone. He let the game carry on and Liverpool almost scored in those extra 1min35seconds.
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