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By Ref Reviewer 04

For the CL game we had ref De Bleeckere doing his last game in the CL. Was it visible he had to stop?

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
1	OTHER	Santana	RVP	C	Jump in the back	1	1
2	OTHER	Bender	Santos	C	Trip	1	1
2	OTHER	RVP	Schmelzer	C	Jump in the back	1	1
4	OTHER	Piszczeck	Gervinho	C	Trip	1	1
7	OTHER	Koscielny	Grosskreutz	C	Jump in the back	1	1
9	OTHER	lewandowski	Santos	C	Trip	1	1
10	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		C		1	1
16	OTHER	Grosskreuz	Walcott	C	Little pull	1	1
17	OTHER			C	Ref comes over to Walcott to tell him what he can and most of all what is not allowed when he stands in front of the keeper when Arsenal is about to take a corner	1	1
20	OTHER	Gervinho	Piszczeck	C	Trip	1	1
21	OTHER	Bender	Arteta	C	Trip	1	1
22	OTHER	Bender	Vermaelen	C	Bender caught Vermaelen who unintentional hit Bender in the face when catapulted in the air. Bender broke his jaw with this	1	1
27	OTHER	RVP	Kehl	C	Push	1	1
28	OTHER	Gervinho	Santana	C	Trip	1	1
34	OTHER	Mertesacker	Kehl	NC	Jump in the back	0	0
36	OTHER	Koscielny	Kagawe	C	Trip	1	1
37	OTHER	Koscielny	Grosskreutz	C	Pull	1	1
38	OTHER	Koscielny	?	C	Frontal tackle, player goes past him and advantage signalled. Dortmund have a shot that goes over	1	1
39	OTHER	Vermaelen	lewondowski	C	Trip but advantage given which leads to nothing this time	1	1
40	OTHER	lewandowski	Mertesacker	C	Push	1	1
41	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		C		1	1
42	OTHER	lewandowski	c	Handball	1	1
46	OTHER	Schmelzer	Koscielny	NC	Looked like a trip for me, he sure didn’t touch the ball as the throw went to Dormund	0	0
	Half time					21	21
			CORRECT		91,30%	91,30%
	YELLOW				0	0
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY			0	0
	GOAL				0	0
	OTHER				1	1	100,00
					1	1	100,00
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
	Second half
49	GOAL	Arsenal		C	Correct goal	1	3
50	YELLOW	Schmelzer		NC	Schelzer refuses to give the ball when Arsenal can take a throw. Ref warns both players. Schmelzer should have been booked	0	0
50	OTHER	Piszczek	Gervinho	C	Trip	1	1
52	OTHER	Lewandowski	C	Handball	1	1
52	OTHER	Schmelzer	Walcott	C	Trip	1	1
52	YELLOW	Schmelzer		C	Ref had warned him a minute ago and now has enough of it. Not the worst foul of the game but after warning a player you must be consistent	1	2
54	OTHER	Vermaelen	Lewandowski	NC	Leaning on the back	0	0
56	OTHER	Kehl	Walcott	C	Push in the back	1	1
57	OTHER	Kagawe		C	Handball	1	1
59	OTHER	Grosskreutz	Vermaelen	C	Backing in the defender	1	1
62	YELLOW	Schmelzer		NC	Gives a kick against the foot of Theo and pushes him after the ball has gone out. He looks a very frustrated player. He should get his second yellow now. Ref seemed determined to not send a player off in his last game I felt	0	0
62	YELLOW	Walcott		C	Walcott is very unhappy about this behaviour and lets it know a bit too much and too loud	1	2
64	OTHER	Mertesacker	Kagawe	C	Has both his hands on the shoulders	1	1
65	OTHER	Hummels	Mertesacker	C	Push	1	1
68	OTHER	?	Santos	NC	Trip ref gives advantage	1	1
69	OTHER	Leitner	Song	C	Push	1	1
70	OTHER	Leitner	RVP	C	Tackle on the achilles from behind	1	1
70	YELLOW	Leitner		NC	This was a tackle we don’t like to see with the studs on the Achilles, should have been a yellow	0	0
71	OTHER	Arteta	Leitner	C	Came in with the arm to challenge him in the air	1	1
72	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		C		1	1
75	OTHER	Santos	Kagawe	C	Little pull	1	1
75	YELLOW	Ramsey		NC	If the ref has said before the game to not kick the ball away after the whistle this card is correct. Refs in Belgium have this habbit to say it before the game.	2	2
76	OTHER	Perisic	Song	C	Pulling with a hand on his shoulder	1	1
78	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		C		1	1
78	OTHER	Benayoun	Piszczek	C	Frontal tackle	1	1
78	YELLOW	Benayoun		C	Not going in dangerous but the tackle itself can be dangerous because of the frontal nature. In the EPL this maybe wouldn’t have been called as a foul but this is Europe and the rules are more strictly applied	1	2
82	OTHER	Kagawe	Santos	C	Holding	1	1
84	OTHER	Hummels	RVP	NC	Van Persie signals he didn’t get touched. He clearly anticipated the leg of Hummels who didn’t puthis foot in the challenge. Rvp clearly tried to avoid contact on his foot	0	0
86	GOAL	Arsenal		C	Correct goal	1	3
87	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		C		1	1
88	OTHER	Lewandowski	Santos	C	clipped his ankle	1	1
90	OTHER	Kagawe	Benayoun	C	clipped his ankle	1	1
91	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		C		1	1
92	GOAL	Dortmund		C	Correct goal	1	3
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					30	39
	%		CORRECT		88,24%	82,98%
	YELLOW				4	7	57,14
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY			0	0
	GOAL				3	3	100,00
	OTHER				3	3	100,00
					10	13	76,92
	OFFSIDE				1	1	100,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					51	60
	%		CORRECT		89,47%	85,71%
	YELLOW				4	7	57,14
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY			0	0
	GOAL				3	3	100,00
	OTHER				4	4	100,00
					11	14	78,57
	OFFSIDE				3	3	100,00
	Correct calls	For Arsenal	26	54,17%
			For Dortmund	22	45,83%
			Total correct calls	48
	Wrong calls	Against Arsenal	4	57,14%
			Against Dortmund	3	42,86%
			Total		7
	Total fouls made by	Arsenal		20	47,62%
			Dortmund	22	52,38%
			Total		42
	Important wrong calls	Against Arsenal	2	100,00%
			Against Dortmund	0	0,00%
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If I look at the two halves one could say that the age is taking its toll. An almost perfect first half but a not that good second half.

Much of his negative points came from the strange behaviour of Schmelzer who was begging for a few yellow cards and looked very agitated certainly from the moment Arsenal was in front.

The keeping the ball when Ramsey wanted to have it to take a throw was very strange and also if Ramsey would have been a bit smarter he just would have taken a fresh ball from the ball boys and leave Schmelzer with his other ball fighting with himself. But Schmelzer should have been booked for this. I thought the ref at this point wanted to take the game to an end without handing any cards.

And then again already on a yellow card he was being a bit aggressive against Walcott when the ball was out of play.  Maybe a bad loser this Schmelzer?

Another missed card was the tackle from behind from Leitner who scared the Arsenal fans a bit. A tackle on the Achilles is always worthy of a yellow card and was also missed. I could live with the cards he gave to the Arsenal players.

And even though Ramsey was correct and the foul was where he kicked the ball too, he should have known better and just let it pass. You can signal it to the ref but don’t kick the ball yourself even if you are right. It is down to the ref to take action, not the players. And it wouldn’t matter that much if the ball was placed 5 meters more to the sideline. A stupid card to take and which could be costly in the future.

Farewell Ref De Bleeckere and in a way a pity because we had two wins with you in charge.

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