Untold Ref Review : Everton 0 – Liverpool 2

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Everton v Liverpool   By Ref Reviewer 04

The Mersey side derby had Ref Atkinson in charge. Did he had a big influence on the game? Only one way to find out: read further.

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
1	OTHER	Hibbert	Downing	C	Block	1	1
2	OTHER	Kelly	Cahill	C	Push in the back	1	1
5	OTHER	Cahill	Carragher	C	Push in the back	1	1
6	OTHER	Kelly	Cahill	NC	Push in the back	0	0
6	OTHER	Rodwell	L?	NC	Ball and man. Fouls all around in the opening stages	0	0
9	OTHER	Kuyt	Jagielka	NC	Push in the back of the defender not given which results in a chance for Liverpool	0	0
13	OFFSIDE	Saha		C		1	1
18	OTHER	Coleman	Skrtel	C	Push	1	1
19	OTHER	Caroll	Fellaini	C	Push	1	1
19	OTHER	Osman	Kelly	C	Trip	1	1
21	OTHER	Lucas	Saha	C	Little kick on the ankle	1	1
23	OTHER	Rodwell	Suarez	C	Frontal tackle	1	1
23	RED	Rodwell		NC	Rodwell came in with his foot sliding on the floor. It was worthy of a yellow but the studs were not showing to the opponent. It was a red card	0	0
27	OTHER	Cahill	Adam	C	High foot	1	1
27	YELLOW	Cahill		C	Dangerous	1	2
29	OTHER	Skrtel	Saha	C	Push in the back	1	1
34	OTHER	Osman	Carragher	C	Push but advantage given no other Everton player near the ball	1	1
37	OTHER	Fellaini	Lucas	C	Came to late and cought the Liverpool player	1	1
40	OTHER	Adam	Osman	C	Caught him on the ankle	1	1
43	PENALTY	Jagielka	Suarez	C	Caught his standing leg	1	3
45	OTHER	Hibbert	Adam	C	Advantage given. Suarez looked in a promising situation	1	1
47	OTHER	Saha	Lucas	C	Trip	1	1
	Half time					18	21
			CORRECT			81,82%	77,78%
	YELLOW				1	1	100,00
	RED				0	1	0,00
	PENALTY				1	1	100,00
	GOAL				0	0
	OTHER				2	2	100,00
					4	5	80,00
	OFFSIDE				1	1	100,00
	Second half
50	OTHER	Lucas	Saha	C	Tackle from the side caught the leg	1	1
50	YELLOW	Lucas		C	Correct	1	2
52	OTHER	Coleman	Enrique	C	Trip	1	1
56	OTHER	Downing	Coleman	NC	push in the back	0	0
56	OTHER	Coleman	Downing	NC	Coleman was holding Downing but the ref should give the first foul	0	0
57	OTHER	Kuyt	Drenthe	C	push in the back	1	1
62	OTHER	Cahill	Downing	C	push in the back	1	1
68	OTHER	Drenthe	Kuyt	C	Trip	1	1
70	OFFSIDE	Bellamy		C		1	1
71	GOAL	Liverpool		C	Correct goal	1	3
78	OTHER	Saha	Carragher	NC	Jumped in the back	1	1
80	OTHER	Skrtel	Velios	NC	Skrtel is tugging the shirt of Velios until they enter the penalty area. Nothing given by the ref	0	0
82	GOAL	Liverpool		NC	Suarez is innitially blocked by Baines. Suarez then pushes Baines in the back and Baines and Distin collide. Distin scufs his clearance in the chest of Suarez who just has to sidefoot the ball in the goal. Pusing a defender in the back is a foul.	0	0
84	OFFSIDE	Kuyt		C		1	1
85	OTHER	Suarez	Jagielka	NC	Encouraged by the fact that the ref did not blow his first push the striker does it again but this time the Everton keeper can claim the ball	0	0
85	YELLOW	Suarez		NC	This was such a clear push and so unnecessary it should be punished with a yellow card. The ref does nothing.	0	0
85	OTHER	Lucas	Drenthe	C	Cynical foul as Drenthe goes past him	1	1
85	YELLOW	Lucas		NC	Cynical fouls like this should be punished with a yellow card. Nothing given. Would have been his second	0	0
86	OTHER	Drenthe	Kelly	C	Trip	1	1
87	OTHER	Carroll	Howard	NC	Carroll gives Caroll a push when the keeper tries to clear a high looping ball. The ref gives a corner. Much to the amazement of Carroll who immediatley appologised for his push.	0	0
90	OTHER	Kelly?	Velios	NC	Jump in the back identical to the foul from Saha on Carragher in min 78. Not given	0	0
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					12	15
	%		CORRECT			57,14%	53,57%
	YELLOW				1	3	33,33
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				0	0
	GOAL				1	2	50,00
	OTHER				2	6	33,33
					4	11	36,36
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					30	36
	%		CORRECT			69,77%	65,45%
	YELLOW				2	4	50,00
	RED				0	1
	PENALTY				1	1	100,00
	GOAL				1	2	50,00
	OTHER				4	8	50,00
					8	16	50,00
	OFFSIDE				3	3	100,00
	Correct calls		For Everton		11	36,67%
			For Liverpool		19	63,33%
			Total correct calls		30
	Wrong calls		Against Everton		12	92,31%
			Against Liverpool		1	7,69%
			Total		13

People who have been reading Untold for a while know that I have explained when a frontal tackle should be a red card. Well this was an example when you don’t have to give a red card.  Rodwell came in frontal so certainly and always a foul. But he had his foot only brief with studs showing to Suarez when he played the ball. At that time there was around 1 meter between both players. Rodwell then brought his foot down on the pitch but did slid further with a foot with no studs showing anymore in to Suarez. Certainly a foul, certainly a yellow card. But not a red card. The turning point of the game?

Als notice the second Liverpool goal. Where Suarez pushed Baines in the back with both arms.  The most amazing part of the game was right after that when Suarez encouraged by the ref gave another even clearer push, this time on Jagielka, that also went unpunished. Truly, truly amazing.

And as amazing as this unpunished push we also have another very strange number of wrong calls. 13 wrong calls is not that amazing anymore for people following the ref reviews but that they went almost all in favour of the visiting team in a derby game. Well that is rather amazing I think.

So a very poor score for the ref. Certainly in the second half

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