Untold Ref review: Man City 4 – Aston Villa 1

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By Ref Reviewer 03

Ref Taylor did Manchester City – Aston Villa. Lets see how he did.

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
1	OTHER	Delph		C	Handball – advantageplayed	1	1
1	OFFSIDE	Milner		NC	Ref ignored linesman, wrongly played advantage when there wasn’t much of one	0	0
5	OTHER	Balotelli	Petrov	C	Foul	1	1
7	OTHER	De Jong	Petrov	NC	Obstruction – not given	0	0
12	OTHER	Warnock	Johnson	NC	Shove – not given	0	0
18	OTHER	De Jong		C	made no contact butslidin recklessly	1	1
19	OTHER	De Jong	Ireland	C	Holding	1	1
23	YELLOW	Richards		NC	Simulation – pathetic dive in the penalty area – not given	0	0
27	OTHER	Agbonlahor	Kompany	C	Foul – assumed correct	1	1
28	GOAL			NC	Balotelli looked to have controlled the ball with the aid of his left arm – ref’s vision was blocked by Richards	0	0
33	OTHER	Delph	De Jong	NC	Delph slid in late on De Jong – ref played on	0	0
33	YELLOW	Delph		NC	This was easily worth a yellow card – not awarded	0	0
33	OTHER	Richards	Agbonlahor	C	Trip from behind	1	1
38	OTHER	Ireland	Milner	C	Stepped on his boot	1	1
38	OTHER	Balotelli		C	Handball	1	1
39	OTHER	Yaya	Ireland	C	Shove	1	1
39	OTHER	Kompany	Ireland	C	Ran into him	1	1
	Half time					9	9
			CORRECT			52,94%	47,37%
	YELLOW				0	2	0,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				0	0
	GOAL				0	1	0,00
	OTHER				0	1	0,00
					0	4	0,00
	OFFSIDE				0	1	0,00
	Second half
47	GOAL			C	Johnson – goal okay	1	3
51	PENALTY			C	Balotelli fell under a normal challenge – no penalty is right	1	3
52	GOAL			C	Kompany – goal okay	1	3
56	OTHER	Barry	Petrov	C	Trip	1	1
58	OTHER	Heskey	Milner	C	Got player and ball	1	1
59	OTHER	Barry	Agbonlahor	C	Slid in wildly	1	1
59	YELLOW	Barry		C	It was reckless	1	2
61	OTHER	Richards/Balotelli	Given	C	Ran into the keeperfrom corner kick	1	1
65	GOAL			C	Warnock – ball hit N’Zogbia’s arm but it was not deliberate – goal okay	1	3
70	OTHER	Delph	Johnson	C	Slid in wildly – mighthave been booked	1	1
70	OFFSIDE	Bent		C	Assumed correct	1	1
71	GOAL			C	Milner – goal okay	1	3
77	OFFSIDE	Balotelli		C		1	1
78	OTHER	Bannan	Hargreaves	NC	Slid in dangerously onHargreaves – not given	0	0
78	OTHER	Hutton	Barry	C	Foul – advantage played	1	1
80	OTHER	Bannan	De Jong	C	Trip	1	1
80	YELLOW	Bannan		C	Dissent – kicked the ball away in anger after the whistle	1	2
82	OTHER	Silva	Hutton	C	Push	1	1
83	OTHER	Hutton	Lescott	NC	It was Lescottwho obstructed Hutton–wrong call	0	0
84	OTHER	Lescott	Bent	NC	Lescott impedes Bent after his attempted clearance is blocked by the Villa striker.	0	0
84	YELLOW	Lescott		NC	This stopped Bent from going towards goal though Kompany was there to cover – should’ve been yellow	0	0
85	OTHER	Hutton	Silva	C	Lunged in dangerously on Silva – advantage played	1	1
85	OTHER	Barry	Agbonlahor	NC	Pulled him back,hand toshoulder – not given	0	0
85	YELLOW	Hutton		NC	Ref should have booked Hutton for  his lunge earlier on Silva once play had stopped	0	0
86	OTHER	Warnock	Milner	C	Foul	1	1
87	OTHER	De Jong	Agbonlahor	NC	De Jong Knocked him over – not given	0	0
90	PENALTY	Hutton		C	Hutton kicks the ball out and throws himself  down – not a penalty	1	3
90	YELLOW	Hutton		NC	This dive was so pathetic I don’t think the ref realised he was diving	0	1
90+3	OTHER	Clichy	N’Zogbia	C	Sandwiched N’Zogbiabetween himself and Silva	1	1
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					17	29
	%		CORRECT			75,00%	78,26%
	YELLOW				2	5	40,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				2	2
	GOAL				4	4	100,00
	OTHER				3	5	60,00
					11	16	68,75
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					26	38
	%		CORRECT			66,67%	69,23%
	YELLOW				2	7	28,57
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				2	2	100,00
	GOAL				4	5	80,00
	OTHER				3	6	50,00
					11	20	55,00
	OFFSIDE				2	3	66,67
	Correct calls		For Man City		13	50,00%
			For A Villa		13	50,00%
			Total correct calls		26
	Wrong calls		Against Man City		4	40,00%
			Against A Villa		6	60,00%
			Total		10

 

Taylor has a reputation of letting some fouls go and not reaching for the cards too often and perhaps that style hurt his performance  on the day as he only managed 63.41% rating (73.40% weighted).  Wrong calls were slightly in Manchester City’s favour, 6 – 4.

Manchester City opened the scoring with a bit of controversy as it appeared that Mario Balotelli had controlled the ball with the help of his left arm before shooting the ball into the net from an overhead bicycle kick.  A couple of Villa players appealed for a handball but the ref’s vision had been blocked by Kieran Richards and so the goal stood.

Aston Villa also scored a controversial goal as the ball had hit Charles N’Zogbia’s arm before falling to Neil Warnock who pulled one back for Villa.  Walter and I concluded that N’Zogbia’s touch was not deliberate and thus according to the rules the goal should stand, even though it doesn’t really seem fair.

In the end it was another comfortable win for Manchester City by 4 goals to 1.

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