Match officials conversation that decided controversial Newcastle v Liverpool incident, now revealed by PGMOL chief Howard Webb
are opening up discussions between the referee and the Video Assistant Referee for six key incidents so far this season in the first instalment of “Match Officials: Mic’d Up”, led by Howard Webb, chief operating officer at PGMOL, the organisation that oversees the League’s match officials.
Howard Webb and Michael Owen go through the conversation between the match officials to give fans greater knowledge of how decisions between the officials on the pitch and those in the VAR hub in Stockley Park are made.With Newcastle United leading 1-0 in the 28th, a pass is delivered to Alexander Isak just outside the Liverpool penalty area. The Newcastle striker attempts to spin past Virgil van Dijk and into the area but goes to ground after contact with the Liverpool defender.
“It’s not only a free-kick, but it also denies Isak an obvious goalscoring opportunity. He is close to goal, he is going to be able to control the ball quite easily, there are no covering defenders. And, of course, we know the direction is towards the goal. “Van Dijk is not protected by the fact that if that had happened in the penalty area it would have been a yellow card for an attempt to play the ball or challenge for the ball. It’s outside the penalty area so therefore it still has to be a red card for [denial of goalscoring opportunity]. When that happens outside the penalty area, even if the defender is trying to play the ball, which van Dijk was, the fact he committed a foul means he has to be sent off in this circumstance.
To be honest, in many of these cases when they are going back and analysing the ‘controversial’ decisions, the likes of Howard Webb and PGMOL often don’t pick the real ‘controversial’ ones. In this case, fair enough Howard Webb looking at the shocking decision to allow that Man City goal to stand on Saturday and that just as bad one where Wolves weren’t given the most obvious of penalties when Onana punched the Wolves player.
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