Arsenal will rely on the red card of Myles Lewis-Skelly against Wolves.
Lewis-Skelly was shown a straight red by referee Michael Oliver in Molineux, with VAR attached to the decision on the field. The position of the PGMOL about the incident is that the challenge is extreme late, the contact point is high and video certificate supports that conclusion.
After the game, Gunners -boss Mikel Arteta said: “That is for the club to decide what the best decision is. It is so clear that we may not have to be even [put in an appeal].
“He is really happy now that the team has won and has found a way to win it. He is very worried about what is coming, because he has a strong feeling that there was nothing to do with the action.”
However, it is the understanding of Sky Sports News that Arsenal will have to appeal to sending for the FA to consider destroying it.
PGMOL does not deal with the professional process after the game, and it is up to the FA to decide whether the decision should be destroyed once a club has been filed.
According to the disciplinary process of the FA, if a club believes that a straight red card is a mistake, it must submit a claim of “unlawful dismissal” to the regulatory committee.
This claim must be submitted on the first working day after the game (Monday 27 January in this case) at 1 p.m. and evidence must be submitted two working days after the game.
If an appeal is submitted, the committee will hear the case, taking into account written or video certificate and making a decision about whether the red card was an error or not.
Arsenal has been contacted for comment by Sky Sports News.
Oliver will agree on Ippswich vs Southampton on Saturday 1 February and the Raarten Merseyside Derby on 12 February.
“It's not the worst decision, but it's not red”
Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher's vision of Lewis-Skelly's Red Card:
“I think it breaks a promising attack. That is my opinion and other referees see it differently.
“Lewis-Skelly realizes (Matt) Doherty is gone and his priority is to stop him quickly, and he flashes out.
“It is not the worst decision in the world as people say.
“Referee Michael Oliver still feels and still feels that he is running out his Achilles. If that is what he thinks, referees is now told that a tackle with studs through the Achilles should be a red card.
“I don't think he's doing that. It happens very quickly.
“But for me I think it's a yellow card for stopping a promising attack. Is the challenge with brutality? Is it with maliciousness? Get intensity and speed? I don't think.”
Warnock: Var afraid to overthrow Oliver's decisions
Stephen Warnock on Sky Sports News:
“I don't think it's a red – I don't think it's the worst decision we've ever seen in football. A lot was made of this at the weekend and some people are very much about it.
“I think it's the wrong decision. I think it is more than anything like that. It is a cynical error, a tactical error that he knows he has to make because wolves break, but there is No malice.
“Yes, he catches him so lightly with his studs, but it's not a stump on him.
“My biggest thing is why it didn't go to VAR or why Var Michael Oliver did not ask to go to the screen and look at the situation and talk about it? For me, the team has abandoned the referee.”
“We still get this hierarchy talk.
“Michael Oliver is our number one referee; the VAR position does not want to destroy his decision because they are afraid, he is the most important man and our best referee and I think that that element of that conversation is still underway.
“That is still a problem that many people mention, rightly or wrongly this weekend.”
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