The body responsible for professional arbitration in England (PGMOL) admitted this Sunday that Brighton should have benefited from a penalty against Tottenhamon Saturday in a league game Premier League who lost 2-1, the English media reported.

“Howard Webbthe main person in charge of arbitration in PGMOL, he apologized to Brighton and talked to them about the decision-making process during the match“, advertisement celestial sports.

Brighton loses away to Tottenham and drops out of the Premier League table

Tied 1-1, referee Stuart Atwell and video aid they did not consider the action in which Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg brought down Kaoru Mitoma in the area punishable in minute 74.

Five minutes later, Harry Kane gave Spurs a 2-1 win.

Ago Brighton canceled two goals with VAR due to hand contact. Other caused a conflict on the benches that ended with the exclusion of two coachesCristian Stellini and Roberto de Zerbi.

According to BBC he Brighton also asked for explanations about other incidents at the match. because of the undecided penalty for pulling the jersey of his captain Lewis Dunk and because of the exclusion of coach Zerbi, considering that he was trying to calm things down in the confrontation.

This is the third time this season that PGMOl has apologized for errors affecting Brighton.

Had they beaten Tottenham, the Seagulls would have been sixth, a point behind Spurs (5th) with two games in hand. (D)