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Tony McKelvie's avatar

I saw Willie Collum on the VAR Review show stating that the Trusty red card was absolutely the correct decision, while the decision not to award a penalty for the foul on Scales was absolutely the wrong decision. See: https://youtu.be/Rb8BPN5Z-Fk?si=daeTsImXcpQZ47_D

He says: “This should be a penalty kick. This should be an on-field review for a penalty.”

And; “We’ve coached the referees; this is a penalty kick for us.”

How do the expected points shake out if the penalty is awarded? - it's 1-1 at the time, we're down to 10 men and there are 15 minutes remaining.

Alan Morrison's avatar

Hi Tony

Would have been huge - 1.08 xPts

Graeme Gallagher's avatar

I find the DOGSO rules puzzling. Sterling stops a ball, albeit with accidental contact, from almost certainly going in yet an attacker 20+ yards from goal can cut across a defender initiating accidental contact and the defender gets sent off. Which has more likelihood of an actual goal?

Alan Morrison's avatar

I advocate for some kind of xG model to AI assess DOGSO incidents and indeed penalties, with a threshold having to be met for Reds/penalties.

Ryan Malone's avatar

The Livo tackle for me was outside the box so should have been a free kick, but a red card.

The Olusanya tackle on Tierney is 10x worse than the outcry on the Ox. That for me should really be a red as the rulebook doesn't say anything about intention

Alan Morrison's avatar

"Fan disagrees about call by neutral impacting their club" shocker, Ryan :)

Sam McCormack's avatar

Alan, from the replay it looks like the the contact from the tackle by the livi player is outside the box? If it is I assume this massively would change xPTs and xG

Tony McKelvie's avatar

The VAR Review shows that it was a foul, and that it was definitively outside the box, and so the 'proper' sequence therefore should have been; on field review, red card, free kick.

Alan Morrison's avatar

I don't debate the calls unless more clarification is needed

It looked very close to me - i couldn't be sure either way personally fwiiw