Manager Dermot Gallagher insisted Rangers were “lucky” not to concede a penalty in their 2-0 win over Motherwell on Sunday (December 24).
The Guards grabbed all three points at Fir Park thanks to early goals from Kieran Dowell and Todd Cantwell.
However, several penalty appeals were rejected by the home team, including one for Cyriel Dessers’ move on Mika Vieres.
Former FIFA and English Premier League referee Gallagher expressed his thoughts on the incident in a video shared by Sky Sports on Twitter [26/26/2019].
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“How lucky are you?
Dessers is obviously pulling him back, but the referee doesn’t realize that and VAR doesn’t recommend it,” Gallagher said.
“It’s amazing because this is Scotland and all this has happened recently.
Dessers did pull back on Biereth and can therefore consider himself somewhat fortunate to have escaped any punishment.
The fact it was seemingly not reviewed by VAR was also surprising, but Biereth did not help himself with the theatrical manner he threw himself to the floor.
Brodie Spencer also felt that a penalty should have been awarded after he was brought down by Ridvan Yilmaz.
So Motherwell has good reason to be sad.
Still, Gers looked as comfortable as he could want after extending his two-goal lead within 16 minutes, and in his last win under manager Philippe Clement, it was a win that was well worth the cost.
brought about.
On any other day, the opponent could very well have been awarded a penalty.
That’s why Dessars must learn a lesson.
He can’t even leave the decision up to the referee.