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No he didn’t guess, he was advised by his fellow officials (both the linesman and 4th official, and VAR looked at and confirmed) to give the red card.
Why I think this may be upheld and is totally different to other leg breaking tackles that have not resulted in a red before, is because it was a cowardly retribution tackle where he had no chance of winning the ball. It wasn’t a genuine mistimed tackle where players were going for the ball and just got timing wrong. He had one nibble and when that failed, a lunge from behind with zero regard for opponent, and zero chance of winning ball.
No serious injury then yellow card, endangering an opponent through recklessness, red card.
Son obviously did not go out to seriously injure the opponent, but his actions let him down.
Saying that I think it sets a dangerous precedent if red is upheld, and I think a yellow would have been sufficient, but players cannot take law into their own hands.
there are literally two or three tackles like that in every single game- cowardly, no- vengeful, yep. I trust this episode will bring an end to his occasional red mist. A players of his intelligence and temperament should have learnt once and for all from the Lerma provocation.