Premier League panel backs Daniel Farke on Gabriel Gudmundsson red at Selhurst Park | OneFootball

The Premier League’s Key Match Incidents panel has unanimously judged Gabriel Gudmundsson’s second yellow card at Selhurst Park to be wrong, BBC reports. The decision meant Leeds United played Brentford without the left-back.

It is the second unanimous error ruling in a fortnight involving Leeds. Earlier in March the panel reviewed the failure to award a penalty for Luke O’Nien’s challenge on Pascal Struijk at Elland Road in the 1-0 defeat by Sunderland.

Against Crystal Palace, Gudmundsson’s foul on Ismaila Sarr led Thomas Bramall to show a second yellow then a red. Daniel Farke said afterwards that the incident did not merit a caution. Bramall appeared to forget the player had been booked in the first half and was reminded before producing the red.

The panel considered the contact minimal and deemed the tackle careless rather than clearly reckless. Reduced to 10 men, Leeds spent almost the entire second half defending and drew 0-0.

Without Gudmundsson, Leeds struggled to create down the left in the subsequent 0-0 draw at Brentford. VAR cannot intervene on second yellow cards at present, but from next season officials will be able to ask referees to review clearly wrong second bookings.

Source: yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk