Untold Ref Review: Sunderland 1 – Man City 0. Ref helps Sunderland at end

By Ref Reviewer 04

Ref Kevin Friend did the game between Sunderland and Manchester City. Did he have a good game?

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
2	OTHER	Sun?	MC?	C	Advantage given, leads to a corner	1	1
7	OFFSIDE	MC		C	Assumed correct	1	1
7	OTHER	De Jong	Cattermole	C	Tripped	1	1
7	YELLOW	De Jong		C	Came late, no chance playing the ball, promising attack	1	2
11	OFFSIDE	MC		C	Assumed correct	1	1
16	OTHER	Barry	Sessegnon	C	Held him	1	1
19	OTHER	Larson	De Jong	C	High foot	1	1
22	OTHER	Lescot	Bendtner	NC	Pushed in his back	0	0
33	OTHER	Zabaleta?		C	Handball, assumed correct	1	1
36	OTHER	Zabaleta?	Sun?	NC	Tackle from behind, didn’t get the ball and Sunderland lost possession	0	0
40	OTHER	Gardner	Johsnon	C	No foot foul but he held his arm around the City player	1	1
41	OTHER	Zabaleta	Bendtner	C	Trip	1	1
43	OTHER	Bendtner	De Jong	C	Push	1	1
45	OTHER	Barry	Sun?	NC	Push not given	0	0
	Half time					11	12
			CORRECT			78,57%	80,00%
	YELLOW				1	1	100,00
	RED
	PENALTY
	GOAL
	OTHER				1	1	100,00
					2	2	100,00
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
	Second half
51	OTHER	Toure	Bendtner	NC	Toure clipped the foot of Bendtner who tried to stay on his feet but because of being brought out of balance he played the ball in the feet of a City player. Ref should have given the initial foul	0	0
53	OTHER	Barry	Sessegnon	NC	Push not given	0	0
54	OTHER	Larsson	Aguero	C	Pulled him back	1	1
59	OTHER	Kolarov	Sessegnon	NC	Stretched his leg very far so Sessegnon could only jump to avoid impact and then went down. Nothing given bij de ref. leading to a chance to City	0	0
60	OTHER	Kolarov	Sessegnon	C	Obstruction	1	1
60	OTHER	Kompany	Bendtner	C	Kompany all over Bendtner	1	1
66	OTHER	Larsson	Aguero	C	Held him for a while to prevent him go past him on the left wing	1	1
66	YELLOW	Larsson		C	Holding the opponent for a longer period is punished with a yellow and Larsson had already had been spoken to before this	1	2
69	OTHER	Kilgallon	Dzeko	C	Push and trip	1	1
75	OTHER	Richards	Colback	C	Trip in the Sunderland penalty area	1	1
82	OTHER			NC	Ref gives a goalkick to Sunderland, Kilgallon was the last one whou touched the ball	0	0
86	OTHER	Sessegnon	Barry	C	Advantage given	1	1
89	OFFSIDE	Richards		NC	Silva takes a shot and when he shoots Richards is offside. The ball bounces of the keeper to him and Richards heads against the cross bar.	0	0
90	OTHER	Sessegnon	Lescott	C	During a replay assumed correct	1	1
93	OFFSIDE	Sunderland		NC	Ji was offside when the ball was played to him	0	0
93	GOAL	Sunderland		NC	Ji scores from this offside position. Should have been cancelled	0	0
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					9	10
	%		CORRECT			56,25%	52,63%
	YELLOW				1	1	100,00
	RED
	PENALTY
	GOAL				0	1	0,00
	OTHER				1	2	50,00
					2	4	50,00
	OFFSIDE				0	2	0,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					20	22
	%		CORRECT			66,67%	64,71%
	YELLOW				2	2	100,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				0	0
	GOAL				0	1	0,00
	OTHER				2	3	66,67
					4	6	66,67
	OFFSIDE				2	4	50,00
	NEW	TEST	1st half	2nd half	Total		%
	WRONG	NC F SUN 1	0	2	2
		NCF SUN 2	0	0	0
		NCF SUN 3	0	1	1
		Total normal	0	2	2	FA SUN	22,22%
		Total important	0	1	1	FA SUN	100,00%
		General total	0	3	3	FA SUN	30,00%
	WRONG	NC F MC 1	3	4	7
		NC F MC 2	0	0	0
		NC F MC 3	0	0	0
		Total normal	3	4	7	FA MC	77,78%
		Total important	0	0	0	FA MC	0,00%
		General total	3	4	7	FA MC	70,00%
		TOTAL NORMAL WRONG			9
		TOTAL IMPORTANT WRONG			1
		GENERAL TOTAL			10
	CORRECT	CF SUN 1	6	3	9
		CF SUN 2	1	0	1
		CF SUN 3	0	0	0
		Total normal	6	3	9
		Total important	1	0	1
	CORRECT	CF MC 1	4	5	9
		CF MC 2	0	1	1
		CF MC 3	0	0	0
		Total normal	4	5	9
		Total Important	0	1	1
		Foul HO	4	6	10
		FOUL AW	9	7	16

 

The last seconds was the difference between a very good game and not that good one.

The first half was excellent and a good example on how to stamp authority on the game. The first tackle that was over the line was immediately punished with a yellow card. And from this moment in the 7^th minute both teams knew they had to be careful. The result was a highly committed game with a very stubborn defending Sunderland but never did they cross the line and went in with flying or dangerous tackles. All in all not much fouls in the game. Maybe thanks to the early yellow?

In the last seconds of extra time Sunderland scored from an offside position. The assistant was clearly not level with the second last defender and because of that he had the wrong angle and it will have looked for him that the Sunderland player was onside. He wasn’t as was clear to see after 10 seconds of replays. A perfect example on how within 10 seconds a goal can be given as correct or can be cancelled as not correct.

Also Manchester City could have scored from an offside goal. But Richards put the ball against the crossbar from an offside position that wasn’t given also.  The two assistants having a bad day in the second half