Chelsea mistakenly given penalty at Crystal Palace, panel says
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Chelsea should not have been awarded a penalty in their 3-1 win over Crystal Palace last month, when Joao Pedro’s goal-bound shot was blocked by Jaydee Canvot’s arm.
The independent Key Match Incident Panel reviews every game and is made up of five people – three former players and coaches, and one official each from the PGMO and the Premier League. In this instance, they decided unanimously that the award of a penalty was wrong.
Chelsea were 2-0 up just before the hour mark at Selhurst Park when referee Darren England deemed that Pedro’s shot, when it struck the Palace defender, was not handball, and he allowed play to continue. But then the VAR Matt Donohue called England for an on-field review, which lasted almost two minutes.
Finally, Darren England overturned his original decision and awarded a penalty, which Enzo Fernandes scored to make it 3-0.
The KMI Panel has now concluded that the original on-field decision was correct, and that the VAR should not have intervened to recommend a penalty be awarded. There were two reasons for this: firstly, Canvot was not making his body unnaturally bigger, and his arm was not in an unnatural position; secondly, the Panel spotted a small deflection off Canvot’s hip before the ball struck his arm, which offered further mitigation.
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