Untold Ref Review: Olimpiacos 3 – Arsenal 1

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By Ref Reviewer 04

For our last Champions league game in the group stages as the knock out stages still await for us we had a ref from Spain who listens to the name Mallenco.

 

Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight

2

 OTHER Oxlade Modesto

C

 Trip

1

1

3

 OTHER Oxlade Torosidis

NC

 Oxlade was held by his shirt, should have been the other way round

0

0

3

 OTHER Chamakh Marcano

C

 Trip

1

1

4

 OTHER Papadopoulos Frimpong

C

 Kick from behind

1

1

4

 YELLOW Papadopoulos

C

 No chance of playing the bal at all

1

2

6

 OTHER Frimpong Fuster

C

 Trip

1

1

10

 OTHER

NC

 Corner not given to Olimpiacos

0

0

11

 OFFSIDE Olimpiacos

C

1

1

13

 OFFSIDE Olimpiacos

C

1

1

15

 OTHER

C

 Ref sorts out an argument before a corner is taken

1

1

16

 GOAL Olimpiacos

C

 Correct goal

1

3

18

 OTHER Arshavin Torosidis

C

 Pushed in the back of the defender

1

1

20

 OTHER Olimpiacos Coquelin

NC

 Push in the back, advantage signalled but there is no advantage

0

0

27

 OTHER Holebas Santos

C

 Kick on the ankle

1

1

29

 OTHER Holebas Coquelin

C

 Kick

1

1

29

 YELLOW Holebas

C

 A stupid and wild challenge

1

2

32

 OTHER Fuster Coquelin

C

 High foot

1

1

35

 OTHER Fuster Coquelin

C

 Trip, holding make your choice

1

1

36

 GOAL Olimpiacos

NC

 Manone heads the ball away and Mirallas comes jumping in with a high foot aimed ath the head of the keeper. Ref should have given a free kick to Arsenal

0

0

39

 OTHER Fuster Santos

C

 Holding

1

1

40

 OTHER Mellberg Chamakh

C

 Trip

1

1

42

 PENALTY Chamakh

NC

 Djebour heads the ball against the arm of Chamakh but the ref gives no corner. Arm was against the body so certainly no penalty

0

3

44

 PENALTY Chamakh

C

 Chamakh falls to the floor. There was a little bit of contact but certainly no foul, As there was a bit of contact no yellow card was neede but better watch out for this

1

3

45

 OTHER Vermaelen Djebbour

C

 Pus

1

1

47

 OTHER

NC

 Throw in to Arsenal given to Olimpiacos

0

0
Half time

19

28
CORRECT

76,00%

77,78%
YELLOW

2

2

100,00
RED
PENALTY

2

2

100,00
GOAL

1

2

50,00
OTHER

2

3

66,67
Total

7

9

77,78
OFFSIDE

2

2

100,00
Second half

49

 OTHER Djourou Mirallas

C

 Came in the back

1

1

50

 OTHER Djebbour Squilacci

NC

 Push in the back not given. Always give a foul on a defender

0

0

53

 OTHER Oxlade ?

C

 Push

1

1

57

 GOAL Arsenal

C

 Correct goal. The ball hit the arm of Chamakh after his chest control but I and the ref thought it was not a deliberate handball

1

3

59

 OTHER Modesto Benayoun

C

 Trip

1

1

60

 OTHER Olimpiacos Arshavin

NC

 Trip not given

0

0

61

 OTHER Frimpong Orbaiz

C

 Came in a bit late and there was contact

1

1

61

 YELLOW Frimpong

C

 One has to be careful for not coming late

1

2

62

 OTHER Torisidos Frimpong

C

 Obstruction

1

1

62

 OFFSIDE Olimpiacos

C

1

1

65

 OTHER Modesto Benayoun

C

 Trip

1

1

66

 OTHER Frimpong Papadopoulos

C

 Push

1

1

72

 OTHER Torisidos Chamakh

C

 Trip

1

1

73

 OFFSIDE Arsenal

C

1

1

81

 OTHER Oxlade Mellberg

NC

 Mellberg was holding off Oxlade and then held his arm around his neck. Ref gave the foul the other way

0

0

81

 YELLOW Oxlade

C

 Made a gesture with his arm to the ref because he disagreed with the decision. Can’t do that

1

2

84

 PENALTY Vermaelen

C

 After a melee the ball hits the arm of Vermaelen from very close. Correct to give nothing

1

3

87

 OTHER Mirallas Rosicky

C

 a few fouls were made

1

1

88

 OTHER Frimpong Abdoun

C

 Push and Frimpong is unhappy about the decision from the assistant and shouts at him. Stupid

1

1

89

 OTHER Frimpong Mirallas

C

 Stupid challenge and the assistant takes his chance on getting back on Frimpong who seconds before shouted at him

1

1

89

 GOAL Olimpiacos

C

 correct goal no offside

1

3

92

 OFFSIDE Arsenal

C

 Looked correct, Chamakh scores but the goal is cancelled out

1

1
2nd half score
TOTAL

19

27
% CORRECT

86,36%

90,00%
YELLOW

2

2

100,00
RED
PENALTY

1

1

100,00
GOAL

2

2

100,00
OTHER

1

2

50,00
Total

6

7

85,71
OFFSIDE

3

3

100,00
TOTAL SCORE
TOTAL

38

55
% CORRECT

80,85%

83,33%
YELLOW

4

4

100,00
RED

0

0
PENALTY

3

3

100,00
GOAL

3

4

75,00
OTHER

3

5

60,00
Total

13

16

81,25
OFFSIDE

5

5

100,00
Correct calls For Olimpiacos

19

51,35%
For Arsenal

18

48,65%
Total correct calls

37
Wrong calls Against Olimpiacos

2

22,22%
Against Arsenal

7

77,78%
Total

9
Total fouls made by Olimpiacos

20

60,61%
Arsenal

13

39,39%
Total

33
Important W/C against Olimpiacos

0

0,00%
Arsenal

1

100,00%

1

 

For me the second goal was not just a foul by Mannone but certainly a foul on Mannone.

As you can see on the picture (if it loads) you can see that Mirallas clearly came in with a high foot aimed in the direction of the head of Mannone. In my version of the laws of the game this is a foul. Maybe Mannone lost his head after the foul on him and thus made a mess of the rest.

But as this was a game of little importance I will not get mad about it. In fact the ref had a not that good first half but a very good second half. So his final score is very decent.

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4 Replies to “Untold Ref Review: Olimpiacos 3 – Arsenal 1”

  1. Excellent review and thanks. How amazing that the best ref performance for ages should come from a spanish chap. If our refs are doing their best- heaven help them. But if they ARE following an agenda- then how is that different from the recently jailed cricketers bending of the game?

  2. I don’t mean to knock the review at all, because I actually like it. But I think what the review can’t show is the sheer physicality that was present in the match. The ‘decisions’ of the referee might have been largely correct but I thought the entire flow of the match was wrong. The Olympiacos players were committed, but they would go overboard with the roughness of their play, and whenever we managed to get the ball off them, they would have a sneaky tug or block us. That sort of thing is dirty play and the ref didn’t punish it. Not that we played well, but I disliked how Olympiacos were playing and I was glad that they went out in the end, and also that they did in such a cruel manner.

  3. I’ve gotta agree with Shard, my initial opinion straight after the match was that the referee had a shocker. Maybe I need to watch it again !

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