A Premier League evaluation panel has discovered Leeds United ought to have been awarded an early penalty in Sunderland’s 1-0 victory at Elland Road.
According to Sunderland Echo, the Key Match Incidents panel dominated referee Stuart Attwell must have given a spot-kick within the sixteenth minute after Luke O’Nien grappled with Pascal Struijk at a nook, and that VAR official Paul Tierney ought to have intervened.
The panel stated O’Nien was not targeted on the ball and had his arms round Struijk, limiting the defender’s run, and unanimously concluded the incident merited a penalty for the hosts.
Leeds head coach Daniel Farke voiced sturdy frustration afterwards, saying he couldn’t perceive why there was no VAR test and believing Attwell would have awarded it on evaluation, whereas noting such incidents could be tough to identify in actual time.
Sunderland finally received by a Seventieth-minute penalty on the different finish, given for handball towards Leeds captain Ethan Ampadu and upheld after a VAR evaluation.
The KMI panel supported that call by a 5-0 vote, stating Ampadu made an extra arm motion that diverted the ball, so the award was right.
