{"id":220300,"date":"2025-12-31T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220300\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:10:09","slug":"key-match-incidents-panel-everton-wrongly-denied-penalty-in-arsenal-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220300\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Match Incidents Panel: Everton wrongly denied penalty in Arsenal defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everton<\/a> should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal<\/a> on 20 December, according to the Premier League’s Key Match Incidents Panel.<\/p>\n

The Gunners were leading 1-0 in the 57th minute at the Hill Dickinson Stadium when William Saliba and Everton<\/a> striker Thierno Barry clashed inside the area. <\/p>\n

Barry got to the ball first, but his boot was kicked by Arsenal<\/a>‘s French defender.<\/p>\n

The panel voted 3-2 that the on-field decision by referee Sam Barrott to not award a penalty was incorrect. <\/p>\n

It also voted 3-2 that video assistant referee (VAR) Michael Salisbury should have sent the match official to the monitor to change his decision.<\/p>\n

Three panel members noted “Saliba carelessly kicks Barry with no contact on the ball” and they felt it was a clear and obvious error.<\/p>\n

Two panellists supported the no-penalty call because “there was not enough impact and a delayed reaction”.<\/p>\n

Everton<\/a> manager David Moyes was confused why other similar incidents had resulted in spot-kicks. <\/p>\n

In particular he referenced a penalty given by the on-field referee to Fulham<\/a> against Nottingham Forest<\/a> two days later. The panel unanimously supported this spot-kick decision.<\/p>\n

“I was half-choking last night when I saw the decision given [to Fulham<\/a>] and ours wasn’t,” said Moyes. “It feels as though certain clubs get those decisions and other clubs don’t.”<\/p>\n

Each KMI Panel is made up of five members. Three are former players or coaches, plus there is one representative each from the Premier League and Professional Game Match Officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal on 20 December, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-220300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220300","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=220300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}