Lisandro Martinez’s Hair Pull Wasn’t Aggressive – Carrick

Interim manager Michael Carrick has reacted to the decision to send off defender Lisandro Martínez against Leeds United. He recently described the dismissal as shocking, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Lisandro’s quick hair grab was not aggressive enough to warrant a red card, especially when replays showed Calvert Lewin throwing his arm in the defender’s face.

Carrick added that he is concerned about the future of football if officials keep giving strange red cards like that.

His words, “Lisandro, to start with, he gets an arm in the face, so he’s kind of off balance in the kind of off grappling.

He almost just goes to touch him and grab his shirt, and he ends up catching his head, touches the back of his hair, the bobble comes out and you get a red card?

It’s not aggressive. There’s no jolt. There’s no tug. There’s no sudden movement. He kind of touches it and glances through it.

You’ve just got to be careful where the game’s going if we’re giving red cards for that. It’s a shocking decision, absolutely shocking.

I have to say that’s really concerning if that’s going to be a sending off. I know he [Martinez] touched his hair. He can’t deny he touched his head.

There’s a difference between touching somebody the way he has and brushing his hair to actually, really aggressively, tugging on it, which certainly we’ve seen at certain points where there’s a real kind of emphasis to. It’s really concerning.”

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