Beijing Youth League: The referee experts have different understandings about Wang Dalei s foul, but they have no objection to the red card penalty

In the 56th minute of the 19th round of the match against Taishan, Wang Dalei of Taishan team made a foul outside the penalty area and knocked down Felipe. The Thai referee Sivagong showed a yellow card as soon as possible. Then VAR intervened. The referee went to the sidelines to check and canceled the yellow card, and changed the red card to send off Wang Dalei!

This penalty also caused controversy in the football circle. For this reason, a Beijing Youth Daily reporter contacted two referee experts, and the two experts also gave their respective judgment opinions.

One of them believes that "the rules state that if a player hits the opponent's face without competing for the ball, then this action may be characterized as violent. Of course, if the action of the implementer is cautious from the objective situation such as strength, it is not violent, then such behavior will receive at most a yellow card. Of course, my personal judgment is that the referee changed the red card under the VAR prompt, which may be because the player who performed the foul action destroyed an obvious scoring opportunity. Although after Felipe intercepted the ball, several defensive players had already returned to him, the defensive player was not a goalkeeper and could not block the ball with his hands. Felipe almost faced an empty goal."

Another expert gave another explanation. He said: "The referee on duty should carefully judge whether a certain action constitutes a serious foul, or a straight red action. The specific nature of the action should be judged carefully. A foul like Wang Dalei is an obvious intentional foul, and his hand touches the other party's face. The rules determine the penalty for such actions. Therefore, the referee is likely to make a red card based on this." Although the interpretations given by the two experts are different, they did not raise any objection to the penalty for the referee showing a red card to Wang Dalei. Of course, for Taishan and Wang Dalei himself, the next professional judgment of the Football Association's referendum committee is still very important. If his behavior is considered "violent", he will face further punishment. Of course, judging from the video image data, Wang Dalei did not use excessive power when touching Felipe with his hand. The purpose of its actions is to strengthen defense, rather than endanger the opponent's body.