Former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg says David Luiz should not have been sent off for Arsenal against Wolves.
The Brazilian was shown a red card just before the break after he clipped Willian Jose in the penalty area.
Mikel Arteta – along with a number of pundits – was furious at the decision and plan to appeal the call that was made with the help of VAR.
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And Clattenburg says the “accidental foul” should only have resulted in a yellow card.
“No one can dispute it was a foul and the award of a penalty was the right decision,” Clattenburg wrote in his Daily Mail column.
“However, a law exists that protects teams from conceding a penalty and losing a player to a red card if a genuine attempt to play the ball has been made.
“Luiz was genuinely trying to get back on terms with Jose and it was an accidental foul.
“This type of incident is accepted as a penalty and yellow card. Referee Craig Pawson and VAR Jon Moss got it wrong.”
Speaking after the defeat, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said: “I looked at seven different angles and I cannot see any contact there.
“To play with 10 men for 45 minutes in the Premier League without your centre-back, against this opposition, of course it changes the game.
“It was a big decision, if they got it right and can justify they got it right I put my hand up and apologise. The way we lost the game is where it really hurts, it’s painful.”
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