The Untold ref review: Man City – Wigan 3-0

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Untold not only publishes reviews of Arsenal games from the ref’s point of view, but also, by way of comparison, reviews of other games too.  The aim is to see if any bias we spot is just something that crops up in Arsenal matches, or whether it is commonplace.

By Ref Reviewer 03

Next in our survey is Manchester City – Wigan. The final score was 3-0 for City. Ref in charge was Atkinson.

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
4	OTHER	Kompany	Di Santo	C	Tripping	1	1
7	OTHER	McArthur	Richards	C	Shoving	1	1
8	OTHER	McArthur	Richards	C	Pushing	1	1
13	GOAL			C	Aguero – goal okay	1	3
17	OTHER	Richards	Di Santo	NC	Tripping – not given	0	0
18	PENALTY	Lopez	Silva	C	Tripped up in the box	1	3
18	PENALTY	Al Habsi		NC	Rarely given but Al Habsi had both feet off the line before Tevez took the penalty kick which was saved. Should have been retaken.	0	0
22	OTHER	Rodallega	Lescott	C	Foul – TV image inconclusive – assumed correct	1	1
26	OTHER	McArthur	YaYa	C	Shoving	1	1
36	OTHER	Lescott	Moses	C	Tripped Moses as he was going towards goal	1	1
36	YELLOW	Lescott		NC	Lescott killed a good scoring chance – should have been booked.	0	0
45	OTHER	Caldwell	Silva	C	Raised boot caught Silva in the foot	1	1
45	YELLOW	Caldwell		NC	Dangerous play deserved a yellow – not given	0	0
46	OTHER	Richards	Rodallega	C	Pushing	1	1
47	OTHER	Rodallega	Aguero	NC	Rodallega tugged on his arm, dispossessed, foul not given	0	0
	Half time					10	14
			CORRECT			66,67%	60,87%
	YELLOW				0	2	0,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				1	2	50,00
	GOAL				1	1	100,00
	OTHER				2	2	100,00
					4	7	57,14
	OFFSIDE				0	0
	Second half
48	OTHER	Lescott	Figueroa	C	Pushing	1	1
53	PENALTY			C	Unintentional handball by Wigan – no penalty is correct	1	3
55	OTHER	Di Santo	Kompany	C	Holding	1	1
57	OTHER	Milner	Figueroa	NC	Milner slid in studs up to win a 40-60 ball, came off worse for it, Wigan maintained possession	0	0
61	OTHER	YaYa	Diame	C	Tripping	1	1
62	OTHER	Richards	Moses	NC	Richards shoved Moses – not given	0	0
63	GOAL			C	Aguero – goal okay	1	3
69	GOAL			C	Aguero – goal okay	1	3
72	OTHER	Johnson	Crusat	NC	Johnson pulled and tripped Crusat – not given	0	0
73	OTHER	Diame	Johnson	C	Tripping	1	1
74	OTHER	Diame	Silva	C	Pulling	1	1
79	OTHER	Milner		NC	Handball – not given	0	0
80	OTHER	Razak	Crusat	C	Razak only on the pitch for 7 seconds makes a mistimed tackle	1	1
86	OFFSIDE	Nasri		C		1	1
90+2	OFFSIDE	Balotelli		C		1	1
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					11	17
	%		CORRECT			73,33%	80,95%
	YELLOW				0	0
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				1	1	100,00
	GOAL				2	2	100,00
	OTHER				0	1	0,00
					3	4	75,00
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					21	31
	%		CORRECT			70,00%	70,45%
	YELLOW				0	2	0,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				2	3	66,67
	GOAL				3	3	100,00
	OTHER				2	3
					7	11	63,64
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
	Correct calls		For Man City		12	57,14%
			For Wigan		9	42,86%
			Total correct calls		21
	Wrong calls		Against Man City		3	33,33%
			Against Wigan		6	66,67%
			Total		9

Not too many fouls in the match.  Both sides could have had a player booked though Martin Atkinson seemed to let a bit slide in this match and didn’t book anyone.  Missed calls favoured somewhat the home team, Manchester City, although the biggest non-call went against City.  Al Habsi had taken two full steps off his line when he saved a penalty from Carlos Tevez, and this should have been retaken.  In any case, Manchester City and Kun Aguero were too sharp for Wigan and rode out with a comfortable 3 – 0 win.

It looked to be the day of the clean games today. Maybe the players were too tired from the international games but not much fire in to the games we reviewed this weekend with little calls to make by the refs.

But still other reviews to come so maybe we will get some more controversy in the next days.

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