{"id":321430,"date":"2021-03-01T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=321430"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:38:00","slug":"chelsea-vs-man-united-premier-league-releases-statement-over-penalty-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=321430","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Man United: Premier League releases statement over penalty decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The English Premier League has issued a statement to explain the decision not to award Manchester United a penalty in Sunday\u2019s clash against Chelsea at the Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of the clash between Chelsea and Man United, Marcus Rashford\u2019s free-kick was blocked by Edouard Mendy, and the ball appeared to strike the arm of Callum Hudson-Odoi on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n<p>While the ball also appeared to hit the arm of Man United striker, Mason Greenwood, which occurred after the contact from Hudson-Odoi.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Stuart Atwell was called over to watch the incident on the pitch-side monitor following a VAR review, but he decided not to award a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Premier League has now issued a statement on the matter, which read: \u201cThe VAR asked the referee to look at the incident again, but he stuck to his on-field decision as he felt that Hudson-Odoi didn\u2019t move his hand towards the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The draw means Chelsea are still in the fifth position on the log, while Man United are in the second position with 12 points behind leaders Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a former Premier League referee, Mark Clattenburg, has said that he was baffled as to how referee Stuart Attwell did not award Manchester United a penalty against Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI am amazed Manchester United were not awarded a penalty in the first half for the clear handball by Callum Hudson-Odoi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow Attwell did not then point to the spot, having been shown the same angles that we were, is a mystery.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Premier League has issued a statement to explain the decision not to award Manchester United a penalty in Sunday\u2019s clash against Chelsea at the Stamford Bridge. In the first half of the clash between Chelsea and Man United, Marcus Rashford\u2019s free-kick was blocked by Edouard Mendy, and the ball appeared to strike the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1397,1406],"class_list":["post-321430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}