Untold Ref Review: Chelsea 4 – Swansea 1

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By Ref Reviewer 04

For the game between Chelsea and Swansea we had ref Mike Dean in charge.

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
3	OTHER	Taylor	Anelka	C	Trip	1	1
6	OTHER	Monk	Ramirez	NC	Kick on the’ ankle	0	0
9	OTHER	Ramires	Britton	C	Frontal tackle on the floor	1	1
12	OTHER	Sinclair	Mikel	C	Trip from behind	1	1
17	OTHER	Lita	Ivanovic	C	Push	1	1
20	OTHER	Meireles	Rangel	NC	Didn’t see much wrong	0	0
21	OTHER	Torres	Britton	C	Trip from behind	1	1
22	OTHER	Gower	Cole	C	Advantage given	1	1
29	GOAL	Chelsea		C	Correct goal	1	3
31	OFFSIDE	Mata		NC	He was level so wrong decision	0	0
32	OTHER	Monk	Torres	C	Blocked his run without the ball	1	1
33	OTHER	Mata	Rangel	C	Pulled his shirt	1	1
33	YELLOW	Mata		NC	This was just a small pull in a not dangerous position. Not really worth a yellow card	0	0
35	OFFSIDE	Anelka		C	Came back from offside	1	1
36	GOAL	Chelsea		C	Correct goal	1	3
37	OTHER	Rangel	Terry	C	Obstruction	1	1
38	OTHER	Mata	Britton	NC	Foul on defender always stop play ref	0	0
39	OTHER	Torres	Gower	C	Torres launches himself two feets in a frontal tackle, studs showing	1	1
39	RED	Torres		C	Durng the tackle Torres even changed the angle of his feet by lifting his feet to shin hight. Lucky gowen was not fully hit on the shin. Ref had no option to give a red card	1	3
43	OTHER	Terry	Lita	C	Trip	1	1
46	OTHER	Bosingwa	Taylor	C	Trip	1	1
	Half time					16	22
			CORRECT			76,19%	78,57%
	YELLOW				0	1	0,00
	RED				1	1	100,00
	PENALTY				1	1	100,00
	GOAL				2	2	100,00
	OTHER				2	2	100,00
					6	7	85,71
	OFFSIDE				1	2	50,00
	Second half
49	OTHER	Lita	Ivanovic	C	Push in the back	1	1
54	OTHER	Dyer	Anelka	C	Trip	1	1
54	YELLOW	Dyer		C	Possible promising attack	1	2
59	OTHER	Rangel		C	Handball	1	1
60	OTHER	Allen	Anelka	C	Advantage given – Anelka shoots against the crossbarr	1	1
62	OTHER	Allen	Mikel	C	Holding	1	1
64	OFFSIDE	Cole		C		1	1
66	OFFSIDE	Routledge		C		1	1
74	OFFSIDE	Routledge		NC	Level with the last defender	0	0
75	OTHER	Monk	Anelka	C	Trip	1	1
75	YELLOW	Monk		NC	Not much going on at the halfway line and not a real bad foul. No need for a card.	0	0
76	GOAL	Chelsea		C	Correct goal	1	3
78	OTHER	Mikel	Sinclair	C	Trip from behind	1	1
80	OTHER	Drogba	Gower	C	Trip	1	1
81	OTHER	Malouda	Rangel	C	Clipped his foot when trying to pass the ball	1	1
81	OFFSIDE	Sinclair		C		1	1
84	OTHER	Bosingwa	Sinclair	C	Little push in the back	1	1
86	OTHER	Cole	Routledge	C	Pull and trip	1	1
86	YELLOW	Cole		C	Promising attack this time	1	2
87	GOAL	Swansea		C	Correct goal	1	3
89	OTHER		Drogba	C	Pulling the shirt	1	1
89	OFFSIDE	Graham		C		1	1
91	OTHER	Drogba	Rangel	C		1	1
92	OTHER	Routledge	Terry	C		1	1
93	OTHER	Mikel	Sinclair	C	Trip	1	1
93	YELLOW	Mikel		NC	Not much going on at the halfway line and not a real bad foul. No need for a card.	0	0
94	GOAL	Chelsea		C	Correct goal	1	3
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					24	32
	%		CORRECT			88,89%	86,49%
	YELLOW				2	4	50,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				0	0
	GOAL				3	3	100,00
	OTHER				4	4	100,00
					9	11	81,82
	OFFSIDE				4	5	80,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					40	54
	%		CORRECT			83,33%	83,08%
	YELLOW				2	5	40,00
	RED				1	1
	PENALTY				1	1	100,00
	GOAL				5	5	100,00
	OTHER				6	6	100,00
					15	18	83,33
	OFFSIDE				5	7	71,43
	Correct calls		For Chelsea		22	55,00%
			For Swansea		18	45,00%
			Total correct calls		40
	Wrong calls		Against Chelsea		5	62,50%
			Against Swansea		3	37,50%
			Total		8

The second half of the ref was better than the first half in this game.

Most talked about was the sending off and I can agree with the ref on his decision. Torres launched himself and his studs where showing towards the shin of the Swansea player. This was very dangerous and if the Swansea player would have found his foot stuck in the ground it could have caused a broken leg. So a red card was the only correct card for this.

For the rest I thought he gave a few soft yellow cards. Two against Chelsea and certainly the Mata one was soft. Certainly if you think that in the second half on almost the same spot a Swansea player did the same on Drogba and no card was produced. Consistency…

But a good score from the ref on all numbers that matter in this game apart from his distribution of yellow cards.

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