Roy Keane: Everton suffered major penalty injustice v Brentford
Roy Keane is adamant that Everton deserved a penalty in the first half of Sunday’s Premier League clash at Brentford.
Towards the end of the first half at the Brentford Community Stadium, Salomon Rondon appeared to have his shirt pulled in the penalty area when attempting to meet an Andros Townsend cross.
Nothing was awarded, however, and there was no VAR review.
Speaking during half-time analysis on Sky Sports [27/11/21], Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Keane believe that was the wrong decision.
“Yeah, I think they’ve got a big case,” Hasselbaink said. “The referee missed that.
Keane added: “It’s a penalty, 100%.”
“The VAR check said it wasn’t a clear and obvious error, but had it been given would be very unlikely to have been overturned,” Sky Sports presenter Dave Jones said, with a chorus of laughter heard in the studio afterwards.
Wronged
The infringement on Rondon looked pretty blatant to the naked eye, but accounting for human error, it looked certain that VAR would intervene to save the referee.
However, bizarrely, no check was forthcoming as the Bees got away with one in London.
Would Everton have deserved the chance to go in at the break on level terms after Ivan Toney’s opener? Perhaps not, but teams don’t always get what they deserve in football, and Everton should have been given the chance to equalise.
What makes it more galling for Toffees is the fact Brentford’s own goal was the result of a VAR check after Townsend’s high boot of Frank Onyeka.
For some reason, the Blues were not the beneficiaries of a VAR check, and Brentford can feel fortunate to have escaped without the concession of a penalty during the first half.
Keane and Hasselbaink are surely right in their assertions, and while there were smirks in the Sky Sports studio, it was no laughing matter for Blues.
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