{"id":244157,"date":"2025-11-04T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244157\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:38:07","slug":"tottenham-red-card-decision-explained-after-var-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244157\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham red card decision explained after VAR intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brennan Johnson saw red on a night he opened the scoring for Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> in their Champions League clash with FC Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

The Welsh attacker had been one of the standout performers on the night, taking his goal well to put Spurs in front in the first half. Wilson Odobert made it two-nil in the second half as Thomas Frank’s men looked like bouncing back from their Chelsea defeat.<\/p>\n

Their performance was marred by Johnson’s red card in the 57th minute after he initially was handed a yellow card by Belgian referee Erik Lambrechts. VAR intervened and the 24-year-old had his head in his hands watching the replay.<\/p>\n

Why Brennan Johnson was sent off in Tottenham vs Copenhagen<\/p>\n

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VAR concluded that Johnson’s tackle on Marcos Lopez was worthy of a red card, and that decision means he’ll now miss the clash with Paris Saint-Germain. UEFA’s explanation read: “Tottenham’s player No. 22, using his studs, made a strong, unfair contact with the opponent’s left ankle, which clearly endangered the safety of his opponent.”<\/p>\n

Johnson was having a fine night and his side were two-nil ahead when he headed down the tunnel. But his sending off somehow breathed new life into the hosts, who stepped it up a gear.<\/p>\n

Micky van de Ven scored an outstanding solo goal to make it three before Joao Palhinha came off the bench to grab his side’s fourth. Johnson’s red is the only setback for Frank on a night the Lilywhites put their Chelsea loss behind them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brennan Johnson saw red on a night he opened the scoring for Tottenham Hotspur in their Champions League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-244157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}