Just coming to post about the same incident
However i cannot agtee with you at all if that's a red we might as well give up now. For me it doesn't tick any boxes for sfp. He's sent him off for kicking the ball, what's he supposed to do?!
How on earth VAR thinks it's a clear and obvious error I'll never know
, I personally don’t think it’s a red, what I don’t understand is the pundits reasoning of “there was no malice” does that even come into it?
It's refereeing by outcome though, rather than the input from the defender. What he's done doesn't merit a red
I totally get where you’re coming from (and I don’t ‘like’ the decision per se), but if I were in Kavangah’s position looking at those VAR replays, red would be the only option with his studs showing and the height of his foot. I also think the idea of a ‘natural follow through’ isn’t the best as it can be used to defend some pretty awful challenges.I'd have to disagree there Henry. Balbuena is under full control of the ball, there is no tackle or challenge from his side. He kicks the ball, with a natural follow through. The challenge is from Chilwell.
Not remotely true I'm afraid.All the above is correct, but Balbuena doesn’t challenge for the ball, I think a lot of people are either not seeing this or ignoring it. The challenge is from Chilwell, Balbuena is under control of the ball, he kicks it. You cannot be punished for kicking a ball you are in control of.
Could Chillwell’s (albeit belated) pressure make Balbuena’s action part of a ‘challenge’ for the ball (going off the glossary definition in the LOTG of a challenge being when the ball is ‘contested’) given he saw him coming? It’s a bit of a weak argument but I’m not sure we could conclusively call Dasilva’s red card on Hojberg from a couple of months ago a ‘challenge’ (and that was rightly seen as a clear red) if we used that logic.Those saying this is SFP, is the player making a tackle, or challenging for the ball?