{"id":18520,"date":"2024-11-23T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18520"},"modified":"2024-11-23T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:19:09","slug":"cooper-criticises-referee-madley-after-penalty-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18520","title":{"rendered":"Cooper criticises referee Madley after penalty calls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leicester City boss Steve Cooper was highly critical of referee Andrew Madley after his side’s <\/b>2-1 defeat by Chelsea.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

He thought they should have had a penalty late on at 2-0 when Levi Colwill appeared to bring down Stephy Mavididi – but it was not given.<\/p>\n

They were awarded a penalty by the video assistant referee (VAR) in injury time when Romeo Lavia caught Bobby de Cordova-Reid.<\/p>\n

Madley did not give it initially as he thought the Leicester player was offside – but VAR ruled he was onside.<\/p>\n

“He gave offside for the second one and he was about half a yard on,” Cooper told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had a lot of bad luck with this referee this year. It’s our third or fourth game with him and it’s not been the best of times. It continued today. <\/p>\n

“The last thing [referees’ body] PGMOL needed was that performance. He’s got some big decisions massively wrong and in general a couple of advantages he blew up. <\/p>\n

“I don’t know if he lost concentration or composure but it’s not what the referees needed in the first game live on TV [after the international break]. <\/p>\n

“It’s a pity. It’s going to be all the talking points. I’m disappointed it’s us on the wrong end of it.”<\/p>\n

Cooper added later: “Maybe officially we need to speak to whoever we’ve got to speak to.”<\/p>\n

Earlier on Saturday, the Premier League said on-field accuracy of decisions has improved from 82% after 11 games last season to 89% this campaign.<\/p>\n

A Key Match Incident Panel ruled that there were only three VAR errors in that time, compared to 16 last season.<\/p>\n

It added the average VAR delay in matches is down from 64 seconds to 36 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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