Untold Ref Review: Newcastle 0 – Chelsea 3

By Ref Reviewer 03

Ref Mike Dean did the game between Newcastle and Chelsea. Did he cause some controversy and was his score low or unexpectedly high? The ref review will clear things up.

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
1	OTHER	Ben Arfa	Drogba	C	Trip	1	1
4	OFFSIDE	Ba		C	Perhaps inches offside but hard to be certain, give linesman benefit of doubt	1	1
4	OTHER	Luiz	Ba	C	Holding	1	1
4	RED	Luiz		NC	Ba was straight on goal and pulled down by the last defender. If Mike Dean gives the foul, which he did, then he must send off Luiz. Shockingly Dean only gave a yellow.	0	0
8	OTHER	Ba	Luiz	NC	Shove on defender – not given	0	0
8	OTHER	Drogba	Coloccini	C	Foul	1	1
10	OTHER	Romeu	Ben Arfa	NC	Ben Arfa tripped over Romeu	0	0
11	OFFSIDE	Drogba		C		1	1
13	PENALTY	Cabaye	Sturridge	C	Sturridge may have been looking for it, but there was enough contact	1	3
15	OTHER	Lampard	Ben Arfa	C	Lampard won the ball first and Ben Arfa fell over him – correct non-call	1	1
17	OTHER	Ben Arfa	Mata	C	Trip – advantage played	1	1
18	OTHER	R Taylor	Sturridge	NC	Push – not given	0	0
19	OTHER	Romeu	Guthrie	NC	Obstruction – not given	0	0
25	OTHER	Ben Arfa	Cech	NC	Interfering with keeper – not given	0	0
26	OTHER	Lampard	Obertan	C	Foul – advantage played	1	1
30	OTHER	Romeu		NC	Barging into defender – Dean later signaled advantage after Krul had gathered, but there was no advantage, should have been whistled immediately	0	0
32	OTHER	Guthrie	Lampard	NC	Ran into Lampard to win header – not given	0	0
32	OTHER	Guthrie	Ramires	C	Trip	1	1
34	PENALTY			C	Ba ran into Luis and threw himself to ground – right not to give penalty, might have booked Ba.	1	3
38	OTHER			C	Cross went off of R Taylor’s head, Chelsea throw-in correct	1	1
38	GOAL			C	Drogba – goal okay	1	3
40	OFFSIDE	Ba		C	Assumed correct	1	1
45	OTHER	Lovenkrands	Ivanovic	C	Foul	1	1
	Half time					15	21
			CORRECT			68,18%	67,74%
	YELLOW				0	1	0,00
	RED				0	1	0,00
	PENALTY				2	2	100,00
	GOAL				1	1	100,00
	OTHER				1	1	100,00
					4	6	66,67
	OFFSIDE				3	3	100,00
	Second half
49	OTHER			NC	Throw-in wrongly given toNewcastle– ball last off Ameobi	0	0
52	OTHER	Ameobi	Mata	C	Trip	1	1
61	OTHER	Ba	Terry	C	Foul – advantage played	1	1
66	OTHER	Guthrie	Drogba	C	Attempted trip – advantage played	1	1
66	OTHER	Drogba	S Taylor	C	Holding	1	1
67	OTHER	Ba	Terry	NC	Push – not given	0	0
67	OTHER	Cabaye	Sturridge	NC	It looked like Cabaye didn’t touch Sturridge	0	0
69	OTHER	Drogba	R Taylor	NC	Shove – not given	0	0
76	OTHER	Drogba	Ameobi	C	Foul	1	1
77	OTHER	Ameobi	Romeu	NC	Climbed over defender – not given – following this Terry held and raised his elbows on Ba. I would have given a penalty against Chelsea had I not felt that Ameobi first had fouled Romeu.	0	0
82	OFFSIDE	Ba		C		1	1
84	OTHER	Torres	Perch	C	Assumed correct	1	1
84	YELLOW	Sturridge		C	Kicked ball away, time-wasting	1	2
85	OTHER	Simpson	Kalou	NC	Charged in – advantage later signaled but there was no advantage	0	0
85	OTHER	Simpson	Ramires	C	Trip from behind – advantage played	1	1
85	YELLOW	Simpson		C	Unsporting behaviour	1	2
89	GOAL			C	Kalou – goal okay	1	3
90+1	OFFSIDE	Kalou		C		1	1
90+2	GOAL			C	Sturridge – goal okay	1	3
90+3	OTHER	R Taylor	Sturridge	C	Lunged in	1	1
90+3	YELLOW	R Taylor		C	Dangerous play	1	2
90+4	YELLOW	Terry		C	Dissent	1	1
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					16	23
	%		CORRECT			72,73%	79,31%
	YELLOW				4	4	100,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				0	0
	GOAL				2	2	100,00
	OTHER				2	3	66,67
					8	9	88,89
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					31	44
	%		CORRECT			70,45%	73,33%
	YELLOW				4	5	80,00
	RED				0	1	0,00
	PENALTY				2	2	100,00
	GOAL				3	3	100,00
	OTHER				3	4	75,00
					12	15	80,00
	OFFSIDE				5	5	100,00
	Correct calls		For Newcastle		11	35,48%
			For Chelsea		20	64,52%
			Total correct calls		31
	Wrong calls		Against Newcastle		5	35,71%
			Against Chelsea		9	64,29%
			Total		14
	Total fouls made by		Newcastle		15	57,69%
			Chelsea		11	42,31%
			Total		26
	Imp. Wrong calls against			Newcastle	1	100,00%
				Chelsea	0	0,00%
					1

 

Mike Dean was the ref and he put in a shocker. More specifically, he made one incredibly shocking call.

In the fourth minute, Ba was through on goal when Luiz pulled him down. It was an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and Luiz was the last defender. It cannot be rationally explained but Mike Dean only cautioned the Chelsea defender with a yellow card. The rules are obvious. Either Dean doesn’t blow the whistle for the foul or he does blow the whistle and he must send off Luiz.

Newcastle boss, Alan Pardew, was furious about it, and for good reason – Chelsea would have had to play almost the entire match a man short. Moreover, even though Chelsea scored a first half goal, Newcastle came close to equalising several times throughout the match, hitting the woodwork a couple of times, and then only conceding 2 late goals in the final minutes of the match.

Dean’s overall performance was a rather low score of 70.45%, and even though Dean robbed Newcastle by not sending off Luiz, wrong decisions actually favoured Newcastle by 9 to 5.