Match Review: Howard Webb – West Bromwich Albion Vs Arsenal (1 – 2) [06/04/2013]
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Today’s referee is Howard Webb
| MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Howard Webb (2013-04-06) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | |||||||
| Min | Type | From | On | C/NC | Reviewer Comment | Weight | |
| 0 | OFFSIDE | WBR | C | Shane Long is played offside by Per Mertesacker from a ball by Liam Ridgewell | 1 | ||
| 2 | FOUL | WBR | C | Chris Brunt Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 2 | FREE KICK | ARS | C | Mikel Arteta takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 4 | OFFSIDE | WBR | C | Billy Jones is played offside by Nacho Monreal from a ball by Gareth McAuley | 1 | ||
| 5 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Jerome Thomas concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 6 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Lukasz Fabianski concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 8 | GOAL KICK | ARS | C | Tomas Rosicky concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 8 | OFFSIDE | WBR | C | Shane Long is played offside by Laurent Koscielny from a ball by Jonas Olsson | 1 | ||
| 10 | CORNER | ARS | C | Bacary Sagna concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 11 | CORNER | ARS | C | Laurent Koscielny concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 12 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Claudio Yacob concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 12 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Jonas Olsson concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 13 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Bacary Sagna concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 13 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Chris Brunt concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 14 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Aaron Ramsey concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 15 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Graham Dorrans concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 15 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Lukasz Fabianski concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 16 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Shane Long concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 17 | OFFSIDE | WBR | C | Shane Long is played offside by Laurent Koscielny from a ball by Graham Dorrans | 1 | ||
| 18 | GOAL KICK | ARS | C | Mikel Arteta concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 19 | FOUL | ARS | C | Gervais Yao Kouassi Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 19 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Ben Foster takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 19 | GOAL | ARS | C | Tomas Rosicky scores a goal for Arsenal. | 1 | ||
| 21 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Liam Ridgewell concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 22 | FOUL | ARS | NC | Tomas Rosicky just played the ball away from the WBA player, no foul. | 3 | ||
| 22 | FREE KICK | WBR | NC | No foul so no direct free kick. | 3 | ||
| 22 | FOUL | ARS | C | Olivier Giroud Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 22 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Liam Ridgewell takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 23 | FOUL | ARS | C | Tomas Rosicky Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 24 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Chris Brunt takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 25 | FOUL | ARS | C | Aaron Ramsey Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 25 | YELLOW | ARS | C | Aaron Ramsey recieves a YellowCard for the following reason: Foul. | 1 | ||
| 25 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | 1 | |||
| 27 | FOUL | ARS | C | Santiago Cazorla Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 27 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Chris Brunt takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 28 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Ben Foster concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 29 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Jonas Olsson concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 29 | FOUL | ARS | C | Olivier Giroud Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 29 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Jonas Olsson takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 30 | FOUL | WBR | C | Jonas Olsson Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 30 | FREE KICK | ARS | C | Mikel Arteta takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 31 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Shane Long concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 31 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Tomas Rosicky concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 32 | FOUL | ARS | C | Nacho Monreal Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 33 | FOUL | ARS | WBR | NC | Long beats Koscielny to the ball and the leg of Koscielny makes contact with the striker his leg. I think the fact that Long was already going down before the contact was what made the ref not giving it. But it was a foul. | 3 | |
| 33 | PENALTY | ARS | NC | The contact was inside the penalty area so should have been a penalty for WBA | 5 | ||
| 33 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Chris Brunt takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 35 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Laurent Koscielny concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 35 | FOUL | ARS | NC | Tomas Rosicky gets a push in the back and therefore overhits the ball and then he tries to recover it and makes a foul. Ref should have given the first foul. | 3 | ||
| 35 | FOUL | WBR | ARS | NC | Tomas Rosicky gets a push in the back and therefore overhits the ball and then he tries to recover it and makes a foul. Ref should have given the first foul. | 3 | |
| 36 | YELLOW | ARS | NC | Tomas Rosicky recieves a Yellow Card but Rosicky his action was down to the ref not giving a foul in the first place | 3 | ||
| 37 | FREE KICK | WBR | NC | Should have been a free kick for Arsenal for the first foul | 3 | ||
| 37 | FREE KICK | ARS | NC | Should have been a free kick for Arsenal for the first foul | 3 | ||
| 37 | CORNER | WBR | C | Chris Brunt concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 38 | GOAL KICK | ARS | C | Gervais Yao Kouassi concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 39 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Bacary Sagna concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 40 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | James Morrison concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 42 | GOAL KICK | ARS | C | Aaron Ramsey concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 42 | CORNER | WBR | C | Gareth McAuley concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 43 | GOAL KICK | ARS | C | Olivier Giroud concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 43 | CORNER | ARS | C | Laurent Koscielny concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 44 | FOUL | WBR | ARS | NC | A WBA player bounces in to Fabianski as he punches the ball away. Foul on the keeper should always be given and certainly when the ball bounces around in the penalty area | 3 | |
| 44 | FREE KICK | ARS | NC | For the foul on Fabianski | 3 | ||
| 45 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Jonas Olsson concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| Period 2 | |||||||
| Min | Type | From | On | C/NC | Reviewer Comment | Weight | |
| 45 | THROW IN | WBR | C | James Morrison concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 47 | CORNER | WBR | C | Ben Foster concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 49 | GOAL | ARS | C | Tomas Rosicky scores a goal for Arsenal. | 1 | ||
| 51 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Chris Brunt concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 51 | FOUL | ARS | C | Olivier Giroud Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 52 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Liam Ridgewell takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 54 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Olivier Giroud concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 54 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Nacho Monreal concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 55 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Gareth McAuley concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 56 | CORNER | ARS | C | Bacary Sagna concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 59 | GOAL KICK | ARS | C | Santiago Cazorla concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 60 | FOUL | ARS | C | Mikel Arteta Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 60 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | James Morrison takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 60 | FOUL | ARS | C | Mertesacker falls on the ball with his back, WBA appeal for a penalty but there was no foul so no penalty | 3 | ||
| 60 | PENALTY | ARS | C | Falling on the ball itself is no foul so no chance of this being a penalty and the ref rightly waves any appeals away | 5 | ||
| 61 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Markus Rosenberg concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 62 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Billy Jones concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 62 | THROW IN | WBR | C | Billy Jones concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 62 | CORNER | WBR | C | Gareth McAuley concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 64 | FOUL | ARS | C | Laurent Koscielny Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 64 | YELLOW | ARS | C | Laurent Koscielny recieves a YellowCard for the following reason: Foul. | 1 | ||
| 65 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Romelu Lukaku takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 66 | FOUL | ARS | C | Tomas Rosicky Commits a Handball foul. | 1 | ||
| 66 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Liam Ridgewell takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 66 | CORNER | ARS | C | Laurent Koscielny concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 67 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Shane Long concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 68 | GOAL KICK | ARS | C | Nacho Monreal concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 68 | FOUL | ARS | C | Olivier Giroud Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 69 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Gareth McAuley takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 69 | FOUL | WBR | C | Romelu Lukaku Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 69 | FREE KICK | ARS | C | Laurent Koscielny takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 69 | FOUL | ARS | C | Per Mertesacker Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 69 | PENALTY | ARS | C | Penalty kick given against Per Mertesacker for a Regular foul on Shane Long | 1 | ||
| 69 | RED | ARS | C | Per Mertesacker recieves a RedCard for the following reason: ProfessionalFoul. | 1 | ||
| 70 | GOAL | WBR | C | James Morrison scores a goal for West Bromwich Albion. | 1 | ||
| 71 | FOUL | WBR | C | Markus Rosenberg Commits a Handball foul. | 1 | ||
| 71 | FREE KICK | ARS | C | Lukasz Fabianski takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 72 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Thomas Vermaelen concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 73 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Thomas Vermaelen concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 73 | OFFSIDE | WBR | C | Liam Ridgewell is played offside by Laurent Koscielny from a ball by James Morrison | 1 | ||
| 74 | OFFSIDE | ARS | C | Olivier Giroud is played offside by Jonas Olsson from a ball by Nacho Monreal | 1 | ||
| 75 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Romelu Lukaku concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 76 | FOUL | WBR | C | Shane Long Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 76 | YELLOW | WBR | NC | We give him the benefit of the doubt but planting your foot on the chest of a player on the ground is not done, could have been a red card also | 3 | ||
| 76 | FREE KICK | ARS | C | Nacho Monreal takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 77 | FOUL | WBR | C | Billy Jones Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 77 | YELLOW | WBR | C | Billy Jones recieves a YellowCard for the following reason: Foul. | 1 | ||
| 77 | FREE KICK | ARS | C | Thomas Vermaelen takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 78 | FOUL | WBR | ARS | NC | Long pushes Monreal as he tries to kick the ball away and as a result Monreal kicks it out, should have been given as a free kick | 3 | |
| 78 | FREE KICK | ARS | NC | For the foul on Nacho Monreal. | 3 | ||
| 78 | THROW IN | ARS | NC | For the foul on Nacho Monreal. | 1 | ||
| 79 | CORNER | ARS | C | Aaron Ramsey concedes a corner kick. | 1 | ||
| 80 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Gareth McAuley concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 82 | FOUL | ARS | C | Mikel Arteta Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 82 | YELLOW | ARS | C | Mikel Arteta recieves a YellowCard for the following reason: Foul. | 1 | ||
| 82 | FREE KICK | WBR | C | Chris Brunt takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 84 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Romelu Lukaku concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 84 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Lukasz Fabianski concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 85 | FOUL | WBR | C | Liam Ridgewell Commits a Regular foul. | 1 | ||
| 85 | YELLOW | WBR | C | Liam Ridgewell recieves a YellowCard for the following reason: Foul. | 1 | ||
| 85 | FREE KICK | ARS | C | Bacary Sagna takes a direct free kick. | 1 | ||
| 89 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Nacho Monreal concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 91 | GOAL KICK | WBR | C | Claudio Yacob concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
| 92 | FOUL | WBR | ARS | NC | WBA defender jumps in to Giroud and steps on his foot while doing it. Still ref gives no foul | 3 | |
| 92 | FREE KICK | ARS | NC | 3 | |||
| 93 | OFFSIDE | WBR | C | Romelu Lukaku is played offside by Bacary Sagna from a ball by Claudio Yacob | 1 | ||
| 94 | THROW IN | ARS | C | Lukasz Fabianski concedes a throw in. | 1 | ||
| 95 | GOAL KICK | ARS | C | Olivier Giroud concedes a goal kick. | 1 | ||
Let us have a look at his competence numbers in this game
| COMPETENCY SUMMARY – Howard Webb (2013-04-06) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | Called | Total | Correct % | ||||
| CORNER | 5 | 5 | 100.00 | ||||
| FOUL | 9 | 14 | 64.29 | ||||
| FREE KICK | 9 | 13 | 69.23 | ||||
| GOAL | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | ||||
| GOAL KICK | 10 | 10 | 100.00 | ||||
| OFFSIDE | 4 | 4 | 100.00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | ||||
| THROW IN | 14 | 14 | 100.00 | ||||
| YELLOW | 1 | 2 | 50.00 | ||||
| TOTAL | 53 | 64 | 82.81 | ||||
| WEIGHTED | 53 | 88 | 60.23 | ||||
| Period 2 | Called | Total | Correct % | ||||
| CORNER | 5 | 5 | 100.00 | ||||
| FOUL | 13 | 15 | 86.67 | ||||
| FREE KICK | 11 | 13 | 84.62 | ||||
| GOAL | 2 | 2 | 100.00 | ||||
| GOAL KICK | 10 | 10 | 100.00 | ||||
| OFFSIDE | 3 | 3 | 100.00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 2 | 2 | 100.00 | ||||
| RED | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | ||||
| THROW IN | 11 | 12 | 91.67 | ||||
| YELLOW | 4 | 5 | 80.00 | ||||
| TOTAL | 62 | 68 | 91.18 | ||||
| WEIGHTED | 68 | 84 | 80.95 | ||||
| Totals | Called | Total | Correct % | ||||
| CORNER | 10 | 10 | 100.00 | ||||
| FOUL | 22 | 29 | 75.86 | ||||
| FREE KICK | 20 | 26 | 76.92 | ||||
| GOAL | 3 | 3 | 100.00 | ||||
| GOAL KICK | 20 | 20 | 100.00 | ||||
| OFFSIDE | 7 | 7 | 100.00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 2 | 3 | 66.67 | ||||
| RED | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | ||||
| THROW IN | 25 | 26 | 96.15 | ||||
| YELLOW | 5 | 7 | 71.43 | ||||
| TOTAL | 115 | 132 | 87.12 | ||||
| WEIGHTED | 121 | 172 | 70.35 | ||||
Let us see if it evens out in this game and have a look at the bias numbers
| BIAS SUMMARY – Howard Webb (2013-04-06) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | West Bromwich Albion | % | Arsenal | % | Total |
| Correct For | 30 | 56.60 | 23 | 43.40 | 53 |
| Correct For Weighted | 30 | 56.60 | 23 | 43.40 | 53 |
| Incorrect Against | 2 | 18.18 | 9 | 81.82 | 11 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 8 | 22.86 | 27 | 77.14 | 35 |
| Fouls Commited | 4 | 28.57 | 10 | 71.43 | 14 |
| Fouls Penalised | 2 | 50.00 | 7 | 70.00 | 9 |
| Period 2 | West Bromwich Albion | % | Arsenal | % | Total |
| Correct For | 34 | 54.84 | 28 | 45.16 | 62 |
| Correct For Weighted | 40 | 58.82 | 28 | 41.18 | 68 |
| Incorrect Against | 0 | 0.00 | 6 | 100.00 | 6 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 0 | 0.00 | 16 | 100.00 | 16 |
| Fouls Commited | 7 | 46.67 | 8 | 53.33 | 15 |
| Fouls Penalised | 5 | 71.43 | 8 | 100.00 | 13 |
| Totals | West Bromwich Albion | % | Arsenal | % | Total |
| Correct For | 64 | 55.65 | 51 | 44.35 | 115 |
| Correct For Weighted | 70 | 57.85 | 51 | 42.15 | 121 |
| Incorrect Against | 2 | 11.76 | 15 | 88.24 | 17 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 8 | 15.69 | 43 | 84.31 | 51 |
| Fouls Commited | 11 | 37.93 | 18 | 62.07 | 29 |
| Fouls Penalised | 7 | 63.64 | 15 | 83.33 | 22 |
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As this fixture did not have any implications for MU, this appeared to be a reasonably fair performance. Even so, the longer the game went on, the more it seemed that he was reverting to an anti-Arsenal mindset, over fouls not given when committed by WBA.
The incorrect against figures are interesting. Basically, another ref who signalled early on that they would be able to persistantly foul Arsenal and pretty much get away with it. But when our players start it, they are punished. Time and time again.
@Mandy Dodd
I agree with you here. The biggest area of bias is not in the big decisions, its in the area you mention that is rarely highlighted but can massively effect a game. I have noticed a consistent trend of teams being able to go through the back of Arsenal players – especially forwards – and get away with it. Yet, any contact from our players seems to bring a free kick.
These subtle areas of bias are our biggest problem.
All well and good the subtle fouling going against us the fact of the matter is that there was one big decision in the game the Ref got wrong and that is theat WBA should have had a first half penalty. Ref got all other big decisions correct. I think the weighting is way off, the NC in the 35th to 37th minute gets 12 points against us, the NC for the penalty at 33 minutes is only 8 for us but the penalty incident is multiple times more important. They score a goal is infinitely more important than a few fouls an a yellow card, Walter I think you have to look at your weightings, we were not biased against for the really important decisions!!!!!
jayramfootball
Only this season. In previous seasons, there have been very many more big calls go against us (along with these smaller calls as well of course) This season, for whatever reason, the refs aren’t calling too many big calls against us. Not blatantly so anyway.
Shard,
could it be… big brother is not watching them but someone else is watching them and they know it…?
Not as big as big brother of course but well…
Walter
It most certainly could.. One of my ManU supporting friends (who naturally is blinded by all the silverware his club ‘wins’) decided to see Arsenal games this season to see if we get screwed on those big calls. And he recently said I must be imagining it since no wrongly given penalties etc went against Arsenal.. And that’s that. He can believe that all is right with the world again, and I’m just some fan looking for excuses for his team not winning.
That’s score one for the PGMOL..But in a way, it’s also a bigger score for Untold.. But I think that’ll change once we’re closer to challenging ManU.