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Originally Posted by Julian
The only difference between the Gerrard tackle and what Rafael did a couple of minutes earlier was Gerrard caught the player. Definitely a card incident but red... i'm not so sure.
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Also gerrard dived in studs up and rafael pulled out of his challenge. The two challenges can't really be compared imo.
The penalty was dubious but he did touch berbatov so it was always going to be given regardless of how easily he went down.