📸 Was Nicolas Jackson lucky to avoid a red card for this tackle? | OneFootball

📸 Was Nicolas Jackson lucky to avoid a red card for this tackle? | OneFootball

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Richard Buxton·23 de abril de 2024

📸 Was Nicolas Jackson lucky to avoid a red card for this tackle?

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Clashes between Arsenal and Chelsea are often spicy affairs but Nicolas Jackson took it to another level in Tuesday’s 5-0 defeat.

The visitors were trailing through an early Leandro Trossard goal before their night threatened to go from bad worse when Jackson fouled Takehiro Tomiyasu.


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Replays showed the Senegal international appearing to catch his opposite number on the ankle with a studs-up challenge early in the first half.

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Remarkably, the incident was sent to a VAR review which deemed that Jackson was allowed to carry on without so much as a warning.

Was it the right call or a lucky escape?