Leicester City manager Steve Cooper harshly criticized referee Andrew Madley after his team’s play. 2-1 defeat against Chelsea.
Thought they should have been awarded a penalty at 2-0 when Levi Colwill appeared to bring down Stephy Mavididi, but it was not awarded.
The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) awarded them a penalty in stoppage time when Romeo Lavia caught Bobby de Cordova-Reid.
Madley did not give it in initially because he thought the Leicester player was offside, but VAR ruled he was offside.
“He was offside in the second and was about half a yard away,” Cooper told BBC Sport.
“We’ve had a lot of bad luck with this referee this year. It’s our third or fourth game with him and it hasn’t been the best of times. This continued today.
“The latest [referees’ body] PGMOL needed was that performance. He’s made some hugely wrong big decisions and generally blown a couple of leads.
“I don’t know if he lost concentration or composure but that’s not what the referees needed in the first live game on television.” [after the international break].
“It’s a shame. These will be all the talking points. I’m disappointed that we’re on the wrong side.”
Cooper later added, “Maybe we officially need to talk to whoever we need to talk to.”
Earlier on Saturday, the Premier League said the accuracy of on-field decisions has improved from 82% after 11 games last season to 89% this campaign.
A panel of key match incidents ruled there were just three VAR errors in that time, compared to 16 last season.
He added that the average VAR delay in matches was reduced from 64 seconds to 36 seconds.
