An ordinary 1-0 can even change the pattern of title competition and relegation throughout the season. Unfortunately, there was a highly controversial picture of the match, an obvious penalty action, and neither the referee nor the VAR made a penalty.
On March 1, Beijing time, Premier League referee Mike Riley has privately called Everton chairman Bill Kenwright and coach Lampard to express deep apologies to the other side for the controversial penalty.
Of course, the outcome of the game cannot be changed!
Looking back to last Saturday's focus battle, Everton, which is about to fall into the relegation zone, faces Manchester City, whose top position is greatly threatened, the two teams are worth more than 1.4 billion euros.
Objectively speaking, Everton's performance was quite good, especially in the first half, and the team created far more scoring opportunities than the Blue Moon.
After the midfield, Guardiola's side gradually gained the upper hand, and Foden took the lead.
Everton had a perfect chance to equalise, and in the 83rd minute, Rodri had a perfectly obvious handball move in his penalty area, when the referee did not have any blows.
Everton's players kept reminding the referee, and Lampard also expressed extreme dissatisfaction, and VAR stepped in to award the penalty.
Just when the Everton players thought they could get a penalty without suspense, the VAR review was completed and the referee announced that before Rodri's handball, Everton's player was offside, so there was no penalty.
After the game, Lampard blasted the referee and VAR directly: "We lost a point on a professional who couldn't do his job properly, it was unbelievable, it made us lose what we deserved, it didn't even take 5 seconds to make a (penalty) award, my family has a three-year-old daughter who can tell you it's a penalty!" ”
Everton management immediately appealed to the Premier League, and the Premier League officially determined after an investigation that the penalty was indeed a clear miss. If Everton had scored the penalty at the time, perhaps the final score would probably have been 1-1!
Although the Premier League has admitted to missing the verdict, the reality is still 1-0, how much impact will such a result have on the Premier League's title race and relegation?
If City had scored not 3 points, but 1 point, they would now be only four points ahead of Liverpool (instead of six points) and Liverpool would have played one less game, changing the title race.
Everton would have scored 23 points if they had scored one point in this game, two points ahead of the relegation zone. Now the Toffee is just one point ahead of the relegation zone.
For relegation teams, it is not easy to get 1 point, and if the season ends and Everton ends up relegating by 1 point, what a grievance it will be!