{"id":332952,"date":"2025-12-24T07:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332952\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:59:11","slug":"referee-appointed-for-chelsea-vs-aston-villa-has-already-made-major-error-in-blues-game-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332952\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee appointed for Chelsea vs Aston Villa has already made &#8216;major error&#8217; in Blues game this season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chelsea have had their fair amount of gripes with officials this season, but have actually had a number of key decisions go their way so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/match-coverage\/eddie-howe-claims-chelsea-got-seriously-lucky-against-newcastle-united\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevoh Chalobah escaped giving away a penalty<\/a> against Newcastle, despite many believing that he should have been penalised by the referee in their 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Discipline has been a real issue for Chelsea this season though, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/enzo-maresca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Maresca<\/a> hardly setting the perfect example from the technical area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/news\/chelsea-dealt-a-huge-blow-for-aston-villa-game-enzo-maresca-has-shared-his-view\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maresca is suspended for the Blues\u2019 upcoming game against Aston Villa<\/a>, and the Premier League have announced who will be tasked with taking charge of the match between two of the top four.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2234636402-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brentford v Chelsea - Premier League\" \/>Photo by Mark Leech\/Offside\/Offside via Getty ImagesStewart Attwell appointed referee for Chelsea vs Aston Villa<\/p>\n<p>As per an announcement on the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4490843\/match-officials-for-matchweek-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Premier League website<\/a>, Stewart Attwell will officiate the game on December 27.<\/p>\n<p>Constantine Hatzidakis and Adam Nunn will be the linesmen for the game, while the responsibility of VAR will fall to Paul Howard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> have a poor record in games officiated by Attwell, winning just seven of the 26 games he has been in charge of.<\/p>\n<p>Kalidou Koulibaly is the only Chelsea player to be sent off by the Englishman, towards the end of a 3-0 defeat against Leeds United.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2234661052-1024x621.jpg\" alt=\"Brentford star Fabio Carvalho celebrating goal against Chelsea\" class=\"wp-image-329017\" \/>Photo by Crystal Pix\/MB Media\/Getty ImagesAttwell\u2019s controversial decision against Chelsea earlier this season<\/p>\n<p>Attwell was last in charge of Chelsea during their 2-2 draw with Brentford earlier this season, where the Blues would have gone top of the league with a win.<\/p>\n<p>They ended up conceding late from a long throw-in, however there were complaints from the Blues that the offside flagged had not ruled it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/news\/mark-clattenburg-thinks-var-made-a-major-error-in-chelseas-2-2-draw-with-brentford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Clattenburg believed it was a \u2018major error\u2019 for the goal not to be disallowed<\/a>, and Maresca was forced to settle for a point in the West London derby.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will be hoping there is no reason for the referee to be the centre of attention on Saturday, as the Blues look to close the gap on the top three.<\/p>\n<p>  Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Chelsea content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have had their fair amount of gripes with officials this season, but have actually had a number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-332952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332952","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=332952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}