Not seen the game so relying on some of my friends watching it, and they reliably inform me that Brentford’s Neal Maupay and Manchester City’s Kyle Walker have been involved in an angry war of words on the pitch, something to do with Walker’s private life which has been in the news recently.
Maupay was subbed before any nonsense could occur post match and I don’t think we’ll hear the last of it. Jarred Gillett would have been on the case anyway I would hazard a guess.
In relation to Gillett, only six fouls and one yellow card awarded all evening, which must be some sort of record for the lowest number of fouls given in a game. Nice to see the Australian referee getting a good run of games and he’ll likely be involved in the next round of fixtures.
The only quibble was when Ederson came charging out of his box and took out a Brentford player. In the box, VAR comes in and gives a penalty.
Gillett gave nothing which was really bizarre.
Aside from that, it was a walk in the park for him, plus to mention Mr Cann again getting everything spot on.
Haven't watched the game yet, but from the photographs of the Ederson incident any contact was outside the penalty area as you say. The commentary I heard suggested Ederson knocked his own player Ake, who went into Pinnock as a result.
Yes, outside the area caught Ake first but carried on into Pinnock. Given the elastic classification of fouls and cards could have been any decision you like to choose. In fairness to Gillett it was consistent with other decisions, and had he given this I would have expected him also to have chalked off Brentford's goal for the blatant blocking of Ake by Toney - though neither incident influenced the subsequent play. The Ederson incident could equally have been a free kick against Ake for having his hands on Pinnock's shoulders as he headed the ball clear so in the context of Gillett's overall decision making I think there was pretty good consistency.
Not sure the Ederson/Toney incidents are the same,Toney simply stood his ground,Rderson clattered Pinnock.
I will be kind to Gillett and say he didn’t see the collision rather than didn’t think it was worth a free kick
Edited to fix the quote thingamajigga, bmb
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