Premier League referees got THREE calls wrong including Arsenal penalty incident and controversial red card decision

PREM officials got THREE calls wrong in the second round of matches.

But only ONE of them should have been overturned by VAR.

And that should have led to a penalty for Arsenal – and a red card for Aston Villa’s Ian Maatsen.

This season the League is publishing the verdicts of the Key Match Incident panel of former refs, players and coaches.

The panel assesses every major call on goals, penalties and red cards made over the Prem season.

And while the majority of decisions made in week two were backed, the panel felt that Arsenal were wrongly denied a stoppage time penalty in their 1-0 win at Villa Park.

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“They also felt that VAR should have intervened as the non-penalty award was a clear and obvious error.”

That would also have brought a second yellow and therefore a red card for Maatsen.

But while the panel assessed two other major mistakes, they were NOT found to have met the threshold for an intervention.

The first was Nottingham Forest’s controversial penalty in their 2-2 draw at Anfield.

Sam Barrott gave a spot kick, converted by Morgan Gibbs-White, after he was sent flying by Allison after his shot was sent wide of the goal.

While the call was confirmed by VAR the panel ruled: “The referee’s call of a penalty was incorrect on-field.

“The contact from Alisson was inevitable as a consequence of his momentum in attempting to save the ball – the contact made was not reckless and below the threshold for a penalty.

“However, the nonintervention by the VAR was unanimously supported on the basis that it was not a clear and obvious error.”

And the other was in Brentford’s draw at Leeds, when the Bees felt they should have had a spot kick for a foul by Jayden Bogle on Kevin Schade.

The verdict was: “The panel felt that a penalty should have been awarded.

“There was foot on foot contact instigated by Bogle with enough contact for a penalty kick.

“However, given the high threshold for VAR intervention, the panel felt the referee’s call should remain on-field as it wasn’t a clear and obvious error.”

The other controversial calls, including the decision not to award Spurs a penalty when new signing Omar Marmoush went down under a challenge from Newcastle’s Malick Thiaw, were backed.

While one panel member felt it WAS a penalty, the other four disagreed and the panel said: “There was a genuine challenge for the ball by Thiaw with some contact made with Marmoush, but this was below the threshold for a penalty kick.”

And Manchester United’s second goal in the 5-2 win over Ipswich, after Harry Maguire handled outside the box before his shot led to an own goal by Jacob Greaves, was also confirmed as the correct call.