I think it is a penalty and it borders on clear and obvious as the referee can’t see it properly. I’m surprised Neil Swarbrick hasn’t called Jones to the monitor.
Same thing happened to Haaland on Saturday towards the end of the Derby. Almost identical actually but no Var review. At least we have consistency. They seem to not see it as clear and obvious if the attacker kicks the back of the defender which causes the trip.
Last night that's not what happened because the attacker didn't kick the defender's leg as in the Haaland incident. Last night the defender tried to put a tackle in and played the man not the ball tereby tripping up the player.
The only issue is whether the defender played the ball and the tv replays clearly showed he didn't.
So we must have the referee thought the defender played the ball so gives no penalty. VAR deems it to not be a clear and obvious error. Surely on that reckoning if the player did play the ball but the referee didn't think so and gives a penalty then presumably VAR would not overturn the decision as it is not clear and obvious error. It can't be a clear and obvious error in one scenario and not a clear and obvious error in exactly the reverse situation.
None of the tv replays showed the referee's positioning to see what view he had of the incident. As a further point where is the input from the near side AR as he would have had a perfect view looking across the field to see who played the ball (and if not what was he looking at?).