Untold Ref Review: Aston Villa 0 – 1 Manchester City

Today’s referee is Michael Oliver – A narrow win for City in goals but how did the ref score

MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Michael Oliver (2012-02-12)
Period 1
Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	Weight
10	OFFSIDE	Aston Villa		C	assumed correct	1
12	OTHER	Zabaleta	Albrighton	C	Trip	1
14	OTHER	Heskey	Kolarov	C	Push	1
17	OTHER	De Jongh	Bent	C	Tackle	1
17	YELLOW	De Jongh		NC	Came in from a distance, studs showing and foot above the ball, should have been booked	2
18	OTHER	Bent	Kompany	C	Push	1
24	OTHER	Barry	Petrov	C	High foot	1
35	OTHER	Kolarov	Heskey	NC	Didn’t see Kolarov doing anything wrong to be honest	1
37	OTHER	De Jongh	Albrighton	NC	Again a dangerous tackle from De Jong with studs showing, ref gives a throw in	2
39	OTHER	Heskey	Barry	C	came in late and pushed him in the back	1
45	OFFSIDE	ManC		C	assumed correct	1
46	OTHER	Barry	?	C	trip but advantage given as it was in stoppage time and no City player near	1
Period 2
Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	Weight
47	OTHER	?	Barry	NC	late tackle not given	1
48	OTHER	Kompany	Keane	C	Trip	1
52	OTHER	Petrov	Silva	C	Trip	1
53	OTHER	Bent	Zabaleta	C	Trip	1
56	OTHER	Petrov	Silva	C	Trip and ref has a word with Petrov	1
62	OTHER	Petrov	Silva	C	Trip just outside the penalty area	1
62	YELLOW	Petrov		C	A promising attack and Petrov was already warned	2
63	GOAL	ManC		C	Correct goal	3
67	OTHER	Dunne	Milner	C	Kick from behind	1
67	YELLOW	Dunne		C	Just kicked the opponent from behind	2
67	PENALTY	Hutton		C	Handball but he tried to take one arm out of the way but as the cross came behind him it hit his other arm	3
70	OTHER	Nzogbia	De Jongh	C	Trip	1
74	OTHER	Johnson	Dunne	C	Held him	1
78	OTHER	Bent	De Jongh	C	High foot	1
81	OFFSIDE	ManC		C	assumed correc	1
82	OTHER	Nzogbia	De Jongh	C	trip	1
86	OTHER	Hutton	Silva	NC	frontal tackle, Silva jumped up not given	1
86	OTHER	Nzogbia	Silva	NC	After escaping the first tackle he gets a push in the back and therefore misses his cross	1
88	OTHER	Nzogbia	De Jongh	C	two footed tackle	1
88	YELLOW	Nzogbia		C	Twenty minutes on the field and 3 fouls and this one a bit dangerous	2
91	OTHER	Dunne	Silva	NC	trip not given	1
92	OTHER	Dunne	Hart	C	Went in to the keeper after Hart pushed the ball away	1
96	OTHER	Keane	Kolarov	C	Push given by the assistant	1

A game dominated from start to finish by City and the ref was well in control of this game.

The only problem on the field was De Jongh. He did what he is good at making dangerous tackles and the ref didn’t notice it. Or he did notice it and gave a foul but didn’t give the well deserved card. It cost him some points.

COMPETENCY SUMMARY – Michael Oliver (2012-02-12)
Period 1	Called	Total	Correct %
OFFSIDE	2	2	100.00
OTHER	7	9	77.78
YELLOW	0	1	0.00
TOTAL	9	12	75.00
WEIGHTED	9	13	69.23
Period 2	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	1	1	100.00
OFFSIDE	1	1	100.00
OTHER	13	17	76.47
PENALTY	1	1	100.00
YELLOW	3	3	100.00
TOTAL	19	23	82.61
WEIGHTED	24	28	85.71
Totals	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	1	1	100.00
OFFSIDE	3	3	100.00
OTHER	20	26	76.92
PENALTY	1	1	100.00
YELLOW	3	4	75.00
TOTAL	28	35	80.00
WEIGHTED	33	41	80.49

But with a score of around 80% in total the ref had a fair game if you look at the calls made.  In total only 7 wrong calls in this game and that is not bad.

BIAS SUMMARY – Michael Oliver (2012-02-12)
Period 1	Aston Villa	%	Manchester City	%	Total
Correct For	5	55.56	4	44.44	9
Correct For Weighted	5	55.56	4	44.44	9
Incorrect Against	2	66.67	1	33.33	3
Incorrect Against Weighted	4	80.00	1	20.00	5
Fouls Commited	4	40.00	6	60.00	10
Fouls Penalised	4	100.00	5	83.33	9
Period 2	Aston Villa	%	Manchester City	%	Total
Correct For	4	21.05	15	78.95	19
Correct For Weighted	6	23.08	20	76.92	26
Incorrect Against	0	0.00	4	100.00	4
Incorrect Against Weighted	0	0.00	4	100.00	4
Fouls Commited	15	83.33	3	16.67	18
Fouls Penalised	11	73.33	3	100.00	14
Totals	Aston Villa	%	Manchester City	%	Total
Correct For	9	32.14	19	67.86	28
Correct For Weighted	11	31.43	24	68.57	35
Incorrect Against	2	28.57	5	71.43	7
Incorrect Against Weighted	4	44.44	5	55.56	9
Fouls Commited	19	67.86	9	32.14	28
Fouls Penalised	15	78.95	8	88.89	23

If take a look at the bias we can see that most of the wrong calls were in favour of Aston Villa. But if we give the weight on the decisions we see that the bias is 55/45 in favour of the home team and this is a rather balanced outcome.

So all in all a good performance from the ref and with not much bias in it.

 

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