This should have at least gone to VAR.

Not even a check? A peek? A little lookey-loo? Nothing?!

The most blatant penalty I’ve ever seen

Unclear from the replay that the defender didn’t get the ball first

The first angle it looks 100% like a pen but then all the other angles make you wonder how his legs could explode in the other direction like that without diving.

The Italian Job, #robbed

Silly Italians. Mudryk skies all his good chances. No need to foul the guy

Even if the ref somehow missed it, I can’t imagine VAR managed to check it properly in such short amount of time. Looked like the play resumed within like 10 seconds. There just wasn’t enough time to tell the ref that they are checking something, see it in slowmotion in a few angles and then report back that “nah, we didn’t see anything wrong”.

100% pen - Arteta would be furious if that happened to his team.

Are they PL refs?

The more I‘m watching the replays the more I think it’s not a penalty at all. The last take shows almost no contact at all, and the Ukrainian jumps in a very awkward way. Sure him being theatrical shouldn’t influence if it’s a pen or not, but then I watch the 3rd replay again and it‘s less and less contact to me.

The Ukrainian tries to force a penalty, to me, but IDK to be honest.

The ref must be a closet Russian

There is slight contact on his left leg. The way that he exaggerated it by leaping off his right leg made it look a bit suss and probably put the ref in two minds.

Ceferin’s comment before the match 👁️👁️👁️

If he doesn’t make an absolute hash of the dramatical foul I think it’s given, it just so simulated because of his reaction.