Coming together, both at it, Madueke going to ground too easily, was there sufficient contact from the defender - too much doubt for a penalty for me!
Have you seen the angle where Madueke puts his arm round the defender's arm/shoulder and appears to hold him? Imo it's very clearly not a penalty, and if anything is more of a foul the other way
I don't doubt it is difficult, but there was no "careless knee" involved in the challenge imo, but there was definitely mutual holding. Mutual holding isn't a punishable offence, and Madueke doesn't have to turn to hold Mendes. He just sticks his arm through and pulls.
Yes Mendes knee/thigh carelessly makes contact with Madueke. Mutual holding ... You were stating that Madueke was holding onto his opponent not they were both holding.
I was being conservative in my original comments, but now that I have found what I was looking for, the evidence is clear & not in Arsenal’s favour i am afraid. The Referee was the opposite to careless - he was correct not to award a penalty.
Perhaps & that’s one way of looking at it, though the best way to look at it, since it actually happened, is that the Referee didn’t award a penalty and it wasn’t overturned. Some may say there is no right or wrong whichever way it went, but the outcome was more right than wrong in more ways than one & therefore the correct decision.
I don’t disagree. Is that a benefit or a hindrance of VAR? I feel referees at that level don’t make the big calls anymore and rely on VAR to make the call.
