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Can you answer the questions that I posed previously? Don't you have to look at the intentions of Brooks first? No eye on the ball, clearly looking for a while on Cucurella before swinging out his arm and catching him fully in the face when the ball is nowhere near.

But you have to first look at the intentions of Brooks in this situation, don't you? Doesn't matter what Cucurella does. And Brooks clearly looks at him for a few seconds before pulling out an arm and catching him fully in the face. I agree that Cucurella runs in his direction, but Brooks...

Also the Christie challenge for the Reece James free kick - that's pretty much a second yellow, completely misses the ball and takes out the player from behind.

Does it really matter where Cucurella runs? He shouldn't put out an arm so much so that he plants it in the opponent's face. Especially that the arm goes in the direction of Cucurella's face if you watch the video in the slow-mo, so it was a deliberate action. Not to mention that Brooks is...

But it's not just a pull? It's an arm to the face when the player is running at speed. He properly plants inside of the elbow on Cucurella's face while not even trying to play the ball. I'd understand that it's a yellow if he would have caught him around torso, but it was in his face...

What about this challenge by Beto? I am not a professional, so I wanted to get to know a more professional opinion about the incident from this game. To me it seems like a red, because Beto has gone in the challenge from behind with both feet off the ground, doesn't seem like he is control...