Coach Maresca criticized the unfair referee that caused Chelsea to lose against Arsenal

TPO - Last night, the highlight match of round 13 of the Premier League took place between Chelsea and Arsenal. The result was a 1-1 draw with the visitors having an extra player for 1 hour. According to coach Enzo Maresca, it was the inconsistency of referee Anthony Taylor that caused the match to not go as he wanted.

What made the Chelsea coach angry with the match officials was that he thought that if referee Anthony Taylor sent off Moise Caicedo for a rough tackle, the referees should have done the same with Rodrigo Bentancur, in the situation where the Tottenham midfielder tackled Reece James when Chelsea beat Tottenham 1-0 a month ago.

In particular, he expressed dissatisfaction with referee Anthony Taylor's decision at the end of the first half of last night's match. At that time, Chalobah received a strong elbow from Arsenal defender Hincapie. Both jumped up to fight for the ball, but the home defender was at a disadvantage and received the full swing of his arm from his opponent.

The referee gave Caicedo a red card after he kicked his opponent in the leg.

Chalobah's eye was swollen. Both the Blues' coaching staff and players told Anthony Taylor that this was a red card-worthy foul, but he did not take any action against the Arsenal defender.

"I'm not against Caicedo getting a red card. But if that's the case, why wasn't Bentancur sent off for the same incident? Why were there two different decisions?" Maresca asked after the match. "The referee confirmed to me that the foul Hincapie did on Chalobah was not an elbow. But he got a black eye and had to be iced at half-time. It's hard to understand."

Despite having to play with a man down, Maresca insisted he was pleased with his team's performance throughout the game. "Sometimes you have to accept a point," he said. "11 v 11, we played better, controlled the game and didn't allow them to create clear chances.

When they lost a man, the players responded fantastically. When you play with 10 men against Arsenal, you need individuals like Robert (Sanchez) and Reece (James). We were delighted with their performance.”

Source: https://tienphong.vn/hlv-maresca-chi-trich-trong-tai-bat-cong-khien-chelsea-thiet-thoi-truoc-arsenal-post1800839.tpo