FIVE MINUTES OF PENALTY MADNESS!
63min 39sec
Fulham’s Andreas
Pereira claims
Newcastle defender Dan Burn pulled him back in the penalty area.
Referee Rob Jones waves away appeals. As play continues, VAR
Mike Dean checks the incident.
63.55 Fulham still have possession and Bobby
Decordova-Reid D d Rid goes down under a careless challenge from Kieran
Trippier. The referee ignores the appeals again. VAR Dean is still looking at the Burn-Pereira incident. Once that is cleared, he will need to check this latest penalty claim.
64.37 Newcastle win a corner at the other end of the pitch but play is paused while Dean studies the Trippier tackle on Decordova-Reid. 65.44 Dean sends Jones to his monitor, feeling the referee has made a clear and obvious error. Jones awards Fulham a penalty, having seen how Trippier wiped out Decordova-Reid without winning the ball.
67.48 Pereira is standing over the penalty spot. He has been there since the spot-kick was awarded. He is trying to protect it from any Newcastle players who may want to scuff up the spot, as we often see with penalties. 68.34 Despite Pereira’s protection of the penalty spot, Aleksandar Mitrovic slips anyway. His right-foot shot sees the ball deflect off his left foot and into the goal. The Fulham celebrations are cut short as they are told it will now be a free-kick to Newcastle rather than a goal.