Refereeing mistakes on the field and through the video assistant referee have risen across most categories in this season’s Premier League.<\/p>\n
The Premier League’s Key Match Incidents (KMI) panel declared another four errors by referees in its latest report, taking the total to 54. <\/p>\n
At the same stage last season there had been 44 wrong or missed VAR interventions, or on-field mistakes which did not reach the threshold for a video review. <\/p>\n
Professional Game Match Officials (PGMO) says the general trend is positive, with 70 mistakes after 30 games of the 2023-24 campaign. <\/p>\n
But there have already been as many VAR errors this season (18) as in the whole of the last campaign – although with a quarter of the season left, that figure is much lower than the overall total for 2022-23 (38) and 2023-34 (31).<\/p>\n
One area of improvement has been incorrect VAR reviews, which have fallen from four to three.<\/p>\n
However, season-on-season there have been more missed VAR interventions (15), on-field errors (25) and incorrect second yellow card decisions (11).<\/p>\n
In the round of matches between 14 and 16 March, the KMI Panel determined that three penalties should have been awarded, but the VAR was correct not to step in. <\/p>\n
Arsenal<\/a> should have been given a spot-kick<\/a> against Everton<\/a> for a foul by Michael Keane on Kai Havertz while Chelsea<\/a> defender Reece James pulled back Newcastle United’s Malick Thiaw<\/a> inside the area. <\/p>\n There should also have been a penalty<\/a> for Brentford<\/a>, when Kevin Schade was held by Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a>‘ Andre.<\/p>\n The fourth error was an incorrect second yellow card<\/a> for Leeds United<\/a>‘s Gabriel Gudmundsson at Crystal Palace<\/a>. This was not reviewable by VAR, but will be from next season<\/a>. <\/p>\n The KMI Panel is an independent, five-person body which assesses all incidents from each round of matches. <\/p>\n There have been fewer VAR interventions this season, down from 89 to 83. PGMO says this indicates better on-field decision making to the intended high bar. <\/p>\n It adds that delays because of VAR have improved by 25% over the last three campaigns. Stoppages have fallen from 64 seconds in 2023-24 to 48 seconds this season, which includes announcements inside stadiums. <\/p>\n On-field accuracy – which excludes VAR interventions to correct errors – has remained consistent at about 86% since the 2023-24 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refereeing mistakes on the field and through the video assistant referee have risen across most categories in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-565960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}