Untold Ref Review: MU 1 – MC 6 – Historical in many ways « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
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For the Manchester derby at Old Trafford we had Ref Clattenburg in charge. Was his contribution as historical as the score line?
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | points | weight |
| 3 | OTHER | Richards | Young | C | Cought the man on the leg | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | OTHER | Young | Silva | NC | Silva tries to clear out of defence but gets a kick on his foot. Ref puts the whistle to his mouth but then changes his mind | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | OTHER | Barry | Evra | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | OTHER | Anderson | Aguero | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | OTHER | Evans | Yaya | NC | Trip | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | OTHER | Richards | Young | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | OTHER | Milner | Young | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | OTHER | Smalling | Balotelli | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | OTHER | Milner | Young | NC | Trip, advantage given but leads to nothing | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | OTHER | Nani | Milner | NC | Push in the back not given | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | PENALTY | Kompany | Rooney | C | Kompany cleanly kicks the ball. No foul, correct seen from the ref | 1 | 3 |
| 20 | OTHER | Balotelli | Evans | C | Stepped on his foot | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | GOAL | City | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 22 | YELLOW | Balotelli | C | Puts his shirt over his head. Correct card | 1 | 2 | |
| 32 | OTHER | Richards | Young | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | OTHER | Welbeck | Hart | NC | Striker backs in the keeper, but no foul given | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | OTHER | Evra | Balotelli | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 37 | OTHER | Anderson | Silva | C | Tackle on the ankle | 1 | 1 |
| 37 | YELLOW | Anderson | NC | Should have been a yellow card for it was a reckless challenge on the ankle | 0 | 0 | |
| 40 | OTHER | Kompany | Welbeck | C | Tripp off the ball | 1 | 1 |
| 40 | YELLOW | Kompany | C | Correct decision to give a yellow card for such a cynical foul | 1 | 2 | |
| 42 | OTHER | Smalling | Balotelli | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 43 | OTHER | Nani | Clichy | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 43 | OTHER | Yaya | Young | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 45 | OTHER | Smalling | Clichy | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| Half time | 19 | 25 | |||||
| CORRECT | 76,00% | 78,13% | |||||
| YELLOW | 2 | 3 | 66,67 | ||||
| RED | 0 | 0 | |||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| 6 | 7 | 85,71 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Second half | |||||||
| 47 | OTHER | Evans | Balotelli | C | Evans pulls the striker down when he goes past him | 1 | 1 |
| 47 | RED | Evans | C | Evans was the last defender, Balotelli would have been one on one against the keeper just outside the penalty box. Only card is a red one | 1 | 3 | |
| 51 | PENALTY | Anderson | Richards | NC | A clear trip and push in the back from Anderson on Richards, should have been a penalty. Clattenburgs washes his hands in innocence? | 0 | 0 |
| 51 | YELLOW | Anderson | NC | Should have been a yellow card. Second time he escapes a yellow card | 0 | 0 | |
| 53 | OTHER | Fletcher | Aguero | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 59 | OTHER | Evra | Richards | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 60 | GOAL | Man City | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 62 | OTHER | Anderson | Aguero | C | Pull and ran a long way to commit the foul | 1 | 1 |
| 62 | YELLOW | Anderson | C | Finally gets his yellow, should have been his third | 1 | 2 | |
| 64 | OFFSIDE | Balotelli | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 67 | OTHER | Evra | Barry | C | Frontal tackle | 1 | 1 |
| 67 | YELLOW | Evra | C | Frontal tackle, foot over the floor, dangerous, correct card | 1 | 2 | |
| 69 | GOAL | Man City | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 70 | OTHER | Evra | Balotelli | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 71 | OTHER | Corner for City | NC | Ball hits the leg of Smalling but no corner given | 0 | 0 | |
| 72 | OTHER | Lescott | Young | C | Push | 1 | 1 |
| 75 | OTHER | Dzeko | Jones | NC | Dzeko hits Jones on his foot, nothing given | 0 | 0 |
| 75 | OFFSIDE | Young | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 79 | OTHER | Smalling | Dzeko | C | Tackle from behind | 1 | 1 |
| 79 | YELLOW | Smalling | C | Dangerous tackle, promising attack | 1 | 2 | |
| 81 | GOAL | Man Utd | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 83 | OTHER | Welbeck | Richards | C | Tackle on the ankle | 1 | 1 |
| 83 | YELLOW | Welbeck | C | Viscious and mean tackle, correct card | 1 | 2 | |
| 85 | OTHER | Barry | Young | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 86 | OTHER | Richards | Welbeck | C | Trip | 1 | 1 |
| 86 | YELLOW | Richards | C | another correct card | 1 | 2 | |
| 89 | GOAL | Man City | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 91 | GOAL | Man City | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 93 | GOAL | Man City | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | |
| 2nd half score | |||||||
| TOTAL | 25 | 44 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 86,21% | 86,27% | ||||
| YELLOW | 5 | 6 | 83,33 | ||||
| RED | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 6 | 6 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 7 | 7 | 100,00 | ||||
| 19 | 21 | 90,48 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| TOTAL SCORE | |||||||
| TOTAL | 44 | 69 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 81,48% | 83,13% | ||||
| YELLOW | 7 | 9 | 77,78 | ||||
| RED | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 2 | 50,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 7 | 7 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 9 | 9 | 100,00 | ||||
| 25 | 28 | 89,29 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| Correct calls | For Man U | 16 | 35,56% | ||||
| For Man C | 29 | 64,44% | |||||
| Total correct calls | 45 | ||||||
| Wrong calls | Against Man U | 2 | 20,00% | ||||
| Against Man C | 8 | 80,00% | |||||
| Total | 10 |
I don’t know how Clattenburg will have felt when returning to his dressing room but if it had a mixture of relief, satisfaction and euphoria it would have been the right feelings.
Doing a top game and then coming out with a final score on the important decisions of 89,29% is …well… utterly amazing done by the ref. The things he missed on the important decisions were a not given penalty for Man City and the fact that he waited too long to show Anderson a yellow card.
For the rest he was spot on with all the other important decisions. And he had lots decisions to make in the 90 minutes.
In a difficult game he wasn’t at his best yet in the first half but in the second half he was very focussed and just did what he had to do. Apart from the mistakes already mentioned.
So United had nothing to complain about the ref. He even gave them the majority of the wrong calls. The turning point was the sending off and this was the only thing Clattenburg could do without making a fool of himself. Balotelli was past the defender and would have been on his way to goal in a one on one with the keeper. Not the worst foul one can make but you got to keep your hands of a player who is clear through on goal.
Clattenburg showed, and not for the first time I have seen this from him, that he took his responsibility when it was required. So he had the nerve to send a United player off with a red card at Old Trafford. But even SAF could not say anything about it. Well not that I heard anyway. Maybe his pal Mike will have heard something about it.
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