{"id":831895,"date":"2026-03-17T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/831895\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:17:23","slug":"leeds-united-informed-var-made-penalty-mistake-vs-sunderland-by-premier-league-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/831895\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United informed VAR made penalty mistake vs Sunderland by Premier League panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League\u2019s Key Match Incident [KMI] panel has unanimously agreed that Leeds United should have been awarded a penalty against Sunderland for Luke O\u2019Nien\u2019s grapple on Pascal Struijk during this month&#8217;s 1-0 home defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Leeds defender Struijk was hauled to the ground by his Sunderland counterpart in the 16th minute of the game but referee Stuart Attwell allowed the act to go unpunished. <b>Leeds Live<\/b> understands VAR Paul Tierney checked and cleared the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeds-live.co.uk\/sport\/leeds-united\/pascal-struijk-penalty-vs-sunderland-33529669\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:deeming it as not a clear and obvious error.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;deeming it as not a clear and obvious error.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">deeming it as not a clear and obvious error.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The KMI panel has now said that this was the wrong course of action. As per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwy659x1rzzo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;BBC&quot;}\" class=\"link \">BBC<\/a>, the panel noted that O\u2019Nien was &#8220;not looking at the ball, places his arms around the neck of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeds-live.co.uk\/all-about\/pascal-struijk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Struijk;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Struijk&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Struijk<\/a> in a clear non-footballing action and stops the Leeds United attacker from progressing towards goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><b>FOLLOW OUR LUFC FACEBOOK PAGE!<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LeedsUtdLive#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Latest news, analysis and more on our Leeds United FB page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Latest news, analysis and more on our Leeds United FB page&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><b> Latest news, analysis and more on our Leeds United FB page<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Daniel Farke lamented some \u201ccrazy\u201d refereeing calls during the defeat, adding: \u201cPascal Struijk, for example, normally we should have been rewarded with a penalty in the first half. It&#8217;s difficult for me to judge why this situation was not given.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Luke O'Nien put two arms around the neck of Pascal Struijk during the set-piece\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b0699e07df8e40e2da57bd13ab785028.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Luke O&#8217;Nien put two arms around the neck of Pascal Struijk during the set-piece -Credit:TNT Sports<\/p>\n<p>Farke did not, however, push back against the handball penalty call against Ethan Ampadu, which led to Habib Diarra\u2019s 70th-minute winner from the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeds-live.co.uk\/all-about\/daniel-farke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Farke;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Farke&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Farke<\/a> said: \u201cMy most important player, Ethan Ampadu, has somehow instinctively, intuitively moved with his arm and given a penalty away in the situation where it&#8217;s not even a chance for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The KMI panel was also unanimous that this was the correct call. It judged: &#8220;Ampadu clearly knocks the ball away with his arm in a secondary motion and the VAR intervention was supported as correct.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Premier League\u2019s Key Match Incident [KMI] panel has unanimously agreed that Leeds United should have been awarded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,12411,4884,71596,1860,2922,56893,1991,16757,2958,238707,16,15],"class_list":["post-831895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-ethan-ampadu","tag-great-britain","tag-habib-diarra","tag-leeds","tag-leeds-united","tag-luke-onien","tag-pascal-struijk","tag-penalty","tag-sunderland","tag-the-premier-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116244948523096730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}