At 0-0 on 18 minutes, Phil Foden found his way into the box and struck a shot which went wide.<\/p>\n
Newcastle defender Schar had come flying across and caught the City midfielder on the left ankle with his studs, leaving him writhing in pain.<\/p>\n
Referee Barrott, though, awarded only a goal-kick for the hosts and video assistant referee (VAR) Craig Pawson agreed with the on-field decision.<\/p>\n
According to the Premier League’s handbook, if “contact is inevitable” between defender and attacker then “play should typically be allowed to continue”.<\/p>\n
However, the law also states that when “contact is either reckless (yellow card) or serious foul play (red card) then a penalty kick and appropriate sanction is the expected outcome”.<\/p>\n
On this occasion, Barrott deemed Schar’s challenge not to be reckless – but pundits were split on the decision.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s a penalty,” former Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney told BBC Sport. <\/p>\n
“The referee might have looked at the fact he has got his shot away before the contact, but the Schar challenge has impacted Foden’s set-up for the shot and then there’s contact. It’s a foul.”<\/p>\n
Former Newcastle defender Jonathan Woodgate said on BBC Radio 5 Live: “I don’t think Schar gets the ball, but I don’t think it’s a penalty.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think he does enough.”<\/p>\n
Ex-Manchester City defender Micah Richards said on Sky Sports “there is contact” but what had saved Schar is the fact Foden had already taken his shot.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think it is enough to overturn,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 0-0 on 18 minutes, Phil Foden found his way into the box and struck a shot which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-308236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}