{"id":205075,"date":"2025-12-22T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205075\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:31:06","slug":"alexander-isak-injury-should-micky-van-de-ven-have-seen-red-for-tackle-on-liverpool-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205075\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak injury: Should Micky van de Ven have seen red for tackle on Liverpool forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham<\/a> boss Thomas Frank was not happy<\/a> with several decisions which went against his side in Saturday’s 2-1 home loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Xavi Simons was sent off after catching Virgil van Dijk on the back of the calf as he closed down the Liverpool<\/a> defender.<\/p>\n

Referee John Brooks had only shown a yellow card, but was sent to the pitchside monitor by the VAR Stuart Attwell.<\/p>\n

Frank said “the game is gone if that’s a red card”. Yet the consensus among former players was it was the right decision. <\/p>\n

On Match of the Day, Joe Hart said: “That is such a dangerous tackle, he’s caught him on the back of the Achilles, it’s absolutely a red card.”<\/p>\n

Referees’ chief Howard Webb last season made it clear this kind of challenge should lead to a VAR review.<\/p>\n

His comments came after Leicester City’s Wilfred Ndidi was not sent off after raking his studs down the calf of Chelsea<\/a>‘s Cole Palmer in an incident which was similar to Simons on Van Dijk.<\/p>\n

Webb said of Ndidi’s foul: “We’ve looked at this collectively, among the officials, talked about this, and we would prefer this to be dealt with with a red card. We have to protect player safety.”<\/p>\n

But what about a possible red card for Alejandro Garnacho earlier in the day? The Chelsea<\/a> forward only received a caution for his foul on Newcastle<\/a>‘s Jacob Ramsey.<\/p>\n

The decision of referee Andy Madley was supported by the VAR Peter Bankes.<\/p>\n

There are some important differences to consider. <\/p>\n

The ball was in playing distance when Garnacho started the challenge. While he did then lead into Ramsey with his studs there was no force or intensity – and only a small amount of contact. <\/p>\n

If a player is stepping into a tackle and mistimes it slightly a caution is seen as an acceptable disciplinary outcome, even if initial contact is above the boot.<\/p>\n

Challenges from behind, as with Simons, where there is no possibility of getting to the ball are far more likely to result in a red card. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham boss Thomas Frank was not happy with several decisions which went against his side in Saturday’s 2-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-205075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}