With the scores level at 1-1 following Mati Vina’s stunning equaliser that cancelled out Conor Gallagher’s opener, there was a hearty shout from Cherries for a penalty in the 67th minute. Cherries are the only side in the Premier League yet to be awarded a spot-kick, whilst Chelsea have managed to avoid giving a single penalty away this campaign.
Asked for his thoughts on the incident,
Gary O’Neil said: “I thought it was a tight one. I thought Thiago Silva doesn’t get the ball, so Dom manages to take a touch before he gets there. But Dom does take his touch backwards. So it looks maybe different to some that we’re used to seeing, where the forward takes his touch forwards. Then there is a bit of contact between Silva and Dom. So technically maybe a foul. Outside the penalty area, maybe a foul, but the fact that it wasn’t given on field meant it was obviously never going to be overturned. So, yeah, we’d have probably needed that one to being given and then it maybe would have been upheld. But, yeah, no real complaints. I thought it was one that it could it or not (be a penalty).”
