Referee Chris Kavanagh advised Declan Rice he “doesn’t like the rule” for reserving gamers who delay restarts – because the official despatched the Arsenal midfielder off for a second yellow within the Gunners’ 1-1 draw with Brighton final month.
Whereas already on a reserving, Rice was adjudged to have kicked the ball away from Joel Veltman’s path after fouling the Brighton defender within the second half of the August 31 encounter.
The midfielder went down as Veltman kicked him, solely to be given his marching orders when he acquired again to his ft.
The sending off was expensive for Arsenal, who have been main 1-0 on the time however then conceded to Joao Pedro’s equaliser as the sport ended 1-1.
Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta was left “amazed” by the choice after the sport, hitting out at Kavanagh’s “inconsistency” in not reserving Brighton ahead Pedro for the same incident earlier within the sport.
As a part of the Match Officers Mic’d Up programme proven on Tuesday night time, the officers’ recording of the incident was revealed, with Kavanagh telling Rice he needed to ship him off, as he was put in an “awful position”.
“Dec, you need to go,” mentioned the official on the time.
“I don’t like it [the rule], I don’t like it. But [Rice has] knocked the ball. He’s kicked the ball. Dec, you need to go I’m afraid.”
Webb’s verdict of Rice’s pink card
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Mike Dean reacts to Declan Rice’s controversial sending off in Arsenal’s conflict with Brighton.
Chief refereeing officer of the Skilled Sport Match Officers Restricted Howard Webb felt Kavanagh had no different possibility however to ship Rice off, revealing the PGMOL had warned gamers earlier than the season began that gamers can be booked for such offences.
Explaining referee Kavanagh’s choice, Webb mentioned: “He’s clearly seen Declan Rice commit a foul, then kick the ball away from an opponent in the process of taking a free-kick.
“We have messaged – clearly and strongly – to the gamers in pre-season concerning the significance of not getting concerned with the ball as soon as the whistle has gone, not delaying the restart in that method.
“We’ve said we would be consistent in the way we have handled this, in the same way we did last season. The number of yellow cards for delaying the restart nearly doubled last season. Because people want to see the game with tempo and flow.
“As soon as he has seen Declan Rice intentionally and clearly kick the ball away from the place of that free-kick then I do not suppose he has any alternative however to ship him off.”
Did it matter that the ball was rolling earlier than Rice kicked the ball away?
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Dermot Gallagher unpicks Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice’s controversial sending off in opposition to Brighton for kicking the ball away after fouling Joel Veltman.
Arsenal followers have been left in uproar on social media when replays confirmed the ball was rolling earlier than Veltman tried to kick the ball, that means Rice’s actions have been irrelevant
In keeping with Regulation 13.2 within the Legal guidelines of the Sport: “The ball must be stationary and the kicker must not touch the ball again until it has touched another player.”
Nevertheless, Webb believes Rice’s want to kick the ball away overruled the rolling ball argument. “It may have been rolling, but Declan Rice still felt the need to kick that ball away,” he mentioned.
“It still has that impact and we have to look at what the player does in that situation. He acts in a way that is very clear, he makes a decision to take the ball away from the opponent.
“It is the referee’s job to cope with all the pieces else, however on this scenario, the actions of Rice have been designed to delay the restart so due to this fact I do not suppose he can have any complaints when his actions resulted in a yellow card.
“In that situation, the referee focuses on Rice’s actions and determines he has to deal with him because those actions are intentionally designed to kick the ball away when he had no business going near the ball in the first place.
“Having given away a free-kick, Rice is aware of he has acquired to get away and let that free-kick be taken and the referee offers with all the pieces else.”
Ought to Brighton’s Pedro haven been booked for kicking the ball away earlier?
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Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta was left pissed off with the ‘inconsistency’ of the refereeing after Declan Rice was dismissed in opposition to Brighton.
Webb did, in the meantime, really feel Brighton ahead Pedro ought to have been booked for kicking the ball away within the first half – including the refereeing workforce led by Kavanagh confirmed “too much leniency” to the Brazilian.
“He should have been [booked],” mentioned Webb. “It’s a different type of scenario but it sits in the same bracket around delaying the restart. Of course he should have been cautioned here.
“The officers on the sector gave him an excessive amount of advantage of the doubt, feeling that the actions weren’t actually impactful as a result of they felt the Arsenal defenders have been too distant to take a throw-in, they have been too distanced away from the ball, not like Veltman who was proper there.
“But it’s quite clear the actions of Pedro do have an impact and do delay Arsenal’s ability to restart and yes, that should have been a yellow card and we have communicated that to the officials.
“We need to be according to our utility of a lot of these disciplinary sanctions. We have dedicated to coping with gamers who delay the restart.
“Not every touch of the ball after the whistle has to result in a yellow card. You have to look at what the impact of the players and the intentions of the players were. It might be that there’s absolutely no impact at all and therefore we’re not going to show a yellow card.
“However within the situations the place we see that affect, and there was one with Pedro, we needs to be seeing a yellow card. That is the suggestions we’ve got given to the officers.”
Ought to Veltman have been despatched off too?
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Brighton defender Joel Veltman admits he was stunned to see Arsenal’s Declan Rice despatched off after an altercation between the pair throughout their 1-1 draw.
After the sport, Arsenal supervisor Arteta felt Rice ought to have been despatched off “by law” – however provided that Veltman was additionally proven a pink card for his involvement within the incident.
Requested about whether or not the Brighton defender ought to have additionally been despatched off for violent conduct, Webb mentioned: “The ball is there, he’s taking a free-kick so it’s difficult to say anything other than that, really.
“He [Veltman] is trying up the sector, he goes to kick the ball which is then moved away from him by Rice’s actions.
” So I don’t think there is anything that can be done by that action [of kicking Rice] in those circumstance – when the ball is there to be kicked by a player who has been given a free-kick.”
Full transcript of Kavanagh sending off Rice
Joel Veltman kicks Declan Rice, who will get in the best way of the Brighton defender taking the free-kick.
AR1: “Remember it’s Rice, he’s already on one.”
KAV: “Declan Rice has kicked the ball away.”
AR1: “Just knocked it away, he’s on a second.”
REF: “Going to have no choice, mate.”
AR1: “It is a second yellow mate.”
REF: “I do know, I’ve acquired no alternative.”
AR1: “Yeah, it’s delaying the restart.”
REF: “I know it is. And I’m going to have to deal with it, aren’t I? I know, second yellow for me.”
AR1: “Look after yourself.”
Kavanagh then reveals Rice the second yellow card after which a pink.
REF: “I had no choice, he knocks the ball away. As he’s about to kick it, he knocks the ball.”
Rice then protests his innocence.
REF: “Yes you did, it’s clear. Yes you did. I have no choice.
Kavanagh then calls over Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard
REF: “Martin [Odegaard, the Arsenal captain who he calls over] , Martin. I’ve no alternative. He is put me… in an terrible place.”
REF TO RICE: “You probably did kick the ball.”
RICE: “No I did not.”
REF: “You probably did. He [Rice, while speaking to Odegaard] has knocked the ball away. Dec, it’s good to go Dec, it’s good to go. I do not prefer it, I do not prefer it. However he is knocked the ball. He is kicked the ball. Dec, it’s good to go I am afraid.”
