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Dermot Gallagher reveals why Moises Caicedo and Dejan Kulusevski escaped red card in Tottenham vs Chelsea clash
There was VAR controversy in Chelsea’s victory against Tottenham with Moises Caicedo and Dejan Kulusevski lucky to escape red cards.
After Chelsea’s 4-3 triumph over Tottenham on Sunday afternoon, former Premier League referee Dermo🌞t Gallagher has assessed whether both sides were fortunate to not see a sending off.
Both teams may have felt hard done by during the fixture with Moises Caicedo and Dejan Kulusevski involved in possible red card scenarios.
Caicedo made a questionable challenge 33 minutes in on Pape Matar Sarr which could have potentially w♔arranted the red mist.
On the other hand, Spurs escaped a red card for Kulusevski just before half time following an elbow to Romeo Lavia which left the Chelsea midfielder with a mean ga🥂sh to the heℱad.
Dermot Gallagher didn’t see reason for a red card in Tottenham vs Chelsea
Speaking on , form♋er referee, Gallagher, believed that there wasn’t enough ‘force’ in both incid🧸ents for a red card to be shown.
“I think it’s a yellow card (Caicedo’s challenge). If he c𒉰atches him halfway up the shin with intensity then I think it’s a red, but because his force was more on the pitch then his leg,🌼 I think that’s what saved him.
“It lacked inten🐼sity (Kulusevsk🐠i elbow), he didn’t use it as a weapon, he didn’t draw his arm back.
“𓆏The question you’d ask is, why’s he got his arm up there? I looked at it and they made it clear there wasn’t enough intensity.”
Jamie Carragher believes Moises Caicedo challenge was ‘obvious’ red card
There is certainly arguments for both challen🌸ges, but Caicedo’s incident seemed very brief in 𝄹terms of a VAR check.
Jamie Carragher spoke to SkySports a♋fter Chelsea’s win against Tottenham and doesn’t understand why Caicedo hasn’t received his marching orders.
“For me, it just seemed like the most obvious red cardꦆ you would see.
“I can hear the VAR and as soon 𝓀as theyꦇ cleared it, me and Peter Drury looked at eachother astonished.
“I think he’s a very very lucky boy and I’d iꦏmagine that is something (Ange) Postecoglou would look back on after the game.”
Gallagher could ‘understand’ why 𝕴Carragher thought a red card was deserved but still believed the maximum punishment to be a yellow.
In what was a crucial game for Postecoglou, he may feel as if his fortunes would h🃏ave changed had Caiced🐲o been sent off.