Arteta slams the Black Shirt for giving Lewis and Skelly a red card
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has been left unhappy with the refereeing decisions during the Gunners’ 1-0 Premier League win at Wolves on January 25, with the issue being whether Miles Lewis-Skelly should have been sent off late in the first half for a challenge on Wolves’ Matt Doherty on the counter-attack in the area.
In that incident, Michael Oliver gave Lewis-Skelly, 18, a straight red card and the VAR decision was upheld.
Arteta said after the game that the referee’s decision was so clear that he didn’t need to say anything. He was very upset at the moment. But would not say anything more and let the สมัคร ufabet กับเรา รับโบนัสทันที media do their thing because it was so clear. Saying anything wouldn’t help.
When asked by reporters whether Arsenal would appeal the red card. Arteta replied that it was for the club to decide what was best. He said that he thought it was so clear that we shouldn’t even have to appeal.
Politicians have been vocal, with Premier League legend Alan Shearer saying. It was one of the worst decisions we have seen in a long time. As a referee, you can make mistakes and see things wrong on the pitch, but I don’t understand why VAR director Darren England thought Oliver was right and didn’t call him to watch the replay. It should have been a yellow card. It was a terrible decision. *It wasn’t fast, the game wasn’t going that well. He didn’t hurt the opponent, and he was miles away from the goal. There was no way it could have been a red card.
Shearer said at the end that what he was concerned about was the use of VAR because the VAR room had to see the slow-motion images from many angles. But he still saw it as a serious foul.
Former Chelsea player Pat Nevin said Lewis-Skelly was about 10 yards from the edge of the opponent’s penalty area. For a red card, it must be a serious foul. For him, it didn’t seem like that. It was just a slight nudge. He had never seen anything like it before. He was shocked to see the referee give a red card.
However, former Premier League player Mike Dean said if you saw the still image you would understand Lewis-Skelly’s splayed cleats on his opponent’s Achilles tendon, which was a serious foul.
At 18 years and 121 days old, Miles Lewis-Skelly is the third-youngest player in Premier League history to be sent off, behind only Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen.