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‘That is a shocking tackle’ – Should Ben Whiteman have seen red for his late challenge?

‘That is a shocking tackle’ – Should Ben Whiteman have seen red for his late challenge during Blackburn’s win against Preston?

On 45 minutes, Blackburn went ahead, a corner was sent in over by Ryan Hedges and Lewis Miller climbed the highest to head home his first goal of the season.

A minute later, straight from the kick off, Preston hit back, with Alfie Devine allowed to make his way into the box and shot past Aynsley Pears, beating defender Sean McLoughlin on the line.

With 30 minutes left of the game, Ryoya Morishita chipped a free-kick with Andri Gudjohnsen at the far post and nodded past Daniel Iversen to make it 2-1 Blackburn, his fourth goals in five league games.

On 87 minutes, Makhtar Gueye went down in the Preston box having received a hand in the face by Andrew Hughes, with referee Paul Tierney turning down penalty appeals.

Shortly after, a yellow card was shown to Preston’s Ben Whiteman after throwing himself into a rash tackle. It is also his fifth caution, meaning he’ll be suspended for the next game at Watford on Tuesday.

The result meant that Blackburn climb up to 16th in the Championship, now closer to the play-off spots than the relegation zone. They make it 5th away win in 7 games, 3rd consecutive away victory, and 4 wins in their last 5 overall.

Preston meanwhile miss the chance to go 2nd and could drop out of the play-offs by the end of the weekend, opening the door for teams below them.

Tim Sherwood on the Whiteman yellow card: “No question – it’s a red card,” he said

“He knows he’s coming – and it’s a good job he does see him because he lifts his legs off of the floor so he doesn’t get badly hurt.

“This is horrendous, this tackle. He jumps and he takes him away.

“If he gets his foot caught, he breaks his leg and the referee sends him off. Why does he have to have a serious injury for him to get sent off?

“That is a shocking tackle. Whiteman should see red, 100 per cent.”

Former PGMOL chief and ex-FIFA referee, Keith Hackett, told Football Insider: “This challenge should have resulted in a straight red card. It fulfilled the law for serious foul play.

“Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging from the front, side or from behind, using one or both legs, with excessive force, endangers the safety of an opponent and is guilty of serious foul play.

“This challenge was delivered with excessive force and endangered the safety of an opponent. There was an element of malice. Sorry, referee, but you got this one wrong.

“There is no place in football for that type of challenge, and you would have hoped that experienced Premier League referee, Paul Tierney, would have judged this more accurately.”

Blackburn’s Valerien Ismael, per Sky Sports:

“After an international break, there’s always a lot of energy when you restart the Championship and we were strong, solid and, after we came into the game in the last 20 minutes of the first half, this was exactly what we wanted until the end of the game.

“In the first minute in the second half, we were really into the game on the front foot again and we knew we had to restart again. I liked the improvement in possession in the opponents’ half; we were less sloppy than the last two weeks, more controlled, more focused, had more purpose in the final third. I think it’s a step ahead for us.”

“I think it was a decent win today. A very strong away performance again. A great evening for us.”

Preston’s Paul Heckingbottom:

“We conceded two really poor goals from our point of view, two set-plays. If you’re going to concede two set-plays in a Championship game, it’s going to be an uphill battle. That’s one reason. We didn’t score when we were on top early on. Put those two things together and it’s going to be a tough, tough game.

“To be fair, even when we went behind, we got back in the game and got what we deserved in the first half.

“In the second half, we huffed and puffed, but I felt, once we conceded another poor goal, we panicked a little bit, lost our shape in our attempts to get back into the game and made the game a little bit too open.

“That game’s not too different from a lot we’ve had this season. We’ve just scored when we’ve been on top and then it’s a different type of game.”

Should Ben Whiteman have seen red for his late challenge? Here’s how fans reacted…

@Rxtso8: I didnt think it could look worse than it did originally but what the actual fuck

@james83_mark: the more you watch the worse it gets . he needed a fucking red for that

@darrencoleman31: Disgusting challenge ref has had an absolute nightmare 😳

@jensonpne_: Didn’t think it was that bad from the stands but yeah that’s a straight red 100%

@SimonJohnFish: This gets worse the more you see it. Horrendous challenge. Red card all day and all night.

@mattieshaw97: Only just back from a serious injury, just no need.

@BlackburnEnder: That’s a leg breaker, it isn’t the first time with Whiteman either, needs a retrospective ban

@Tez1995: Fucking shocking ref tonight they got decisions all night also the pen in the last few mins

@grogan6: How’s he got away with that 😭😭

@Monty5493: Premier league referee gives a yellow for this tackle. How wasn’t that a red 🫠 #Rovers

@pnefc33: Ben Whiteman is a very very lucky man. WHAT A HIT SON 😂 #pnefc

@ASavage83: Disgusting tackle from Ben Whiteman how that’s only a yellow I’ll never know….

@MitchHalley: Michael Smith and Ben Whiteman both should have had straight reds. Terrible refereeing

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