Ref Watch panel analyse penalty and red card claims during Burnley v Bournemouth
Burnley were fortunate not to concede a penalty during their goalless draw against Bournemouth according to ex-striker Jay Bothroyd.
The Cherries felt they should have been awarded a second-half spot kick during Saturday’s 0-0 draw when Evanilson went to ground as he tried to manouvre between Joe Worrall and Bashir Humphreys.
But referee Peter Bankes emphatically waved away the appeals, while VAR didn’t intervene.
While former ref Dermot Gallagher backed up Bankes’ decision, Bothroyd offered a different view.
“The ref just thinks they have come together,” Gallagher explained. “He thinks Evanilson has seen the leg and gone over it because it is planted.
"The ref makes a decision and says no penalty. He tells them why he doesn't think it was a penalty. I would back the referee because he has made a judgement. He hasn't let it go.”
Former striker Jay Bothroyd, however, believes the Clarets were lucky to get away with it.
“I disagree with that,” he said in response to Gallagher. “It should have been a penalty.
"Evanilson took a fantastic touch, one he could get onto and have a shot. The defender has recognised that and stepped across him to stop him coming through the middle. There is contact there. That should have been a penalty.
“Whoever made that decision, I don't know who it was, but have they played the game before? Have they experienced that situation? Any level of football. Wrong decision.”
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It wasn’t the only talking point of the game to be discussed by the Ref Watch panel, who also took a look at Hannibal’s late challenge on Adrien Truffert.
The Tunisian international was only cautioned for the foul, while Cherries boss Andoni Iraola felt it was worthy of an “orange card”.
Gallagher said: “What saves him is he stretches and he does not really go through him because he is at full stretch and catches him – so I think it is absolutely right.
“If he was going further and went absolutely through him, he is going to get a red card for sure.”
Bothroyd added: “If his foot was a different way and his studs were facing his leg, then it would have been a red card.
"But when you look at the challenge, it is his heel that lands on the boot and that is why I can't give a straight red.”
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