Former Premier League referee Keith Hackett gave reason why Harry Kane should have been given a “RED CARD” during Arsenal vs Bayern Munich 2-2 Champions League quarter-final draw

An ex-Premier League referee says Harry Kane should have been sent off in Tuesday’s Champions League match against Arsenal.

Referee Keith Hackett, who used to work in the Premier League, thinks Harry Kane was “lucky boy” not to be sent off when his flying elbow hit Gabriel in the second half of Arsenal’s 2-2 draw with Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals on Tuesday.

Referee Pol van Boekel gave Kane a yellow card in the 55th minute of the first leg at the Emirates for hitting a Gunners’ Brazilian defender in the face with a raised elbow. At the time, the Bundesliga team was ahead 2-1 in North London.

Even though Gabriel was on the ground, Van Boekel only showed the 30-year-old England captain a yellow card. Assistant referee Dennis Higler did not tell Van Boekel to go to the VAR monitor on the field to look over what happened. That being said, Hackett thinks it was enough to tell Kane to go.

“Hurry Kane should feel very lucky.” “His swinging elbow to the face of Arsenal defender Gabriel in the 55th minute of Tuesday night’s exciting first leg of the Champions League quarterfinal was dangerous, reckless, and with too much force,” Hackett wrote in his Telegraph piece. Hackett was a referee in the Premier League from 1992 to 1994.

You could tell Kane knew what he was doing by the way he looked back at Gabriel to see where his opponent was”. Please understand that if you look away from the ball and play the man, you will get into trouble.

“When it comes to officiating, the elbow is a dangerous spot because it’s easy to do a lot of damage if you use it wrong.” That was very clear in this case; Kane used his elbow as a weapon, and Gabriel had no way to defend himself after seeing him hit and look back at him just before the contact.

“That was violent behavior, and I’m sure he would have been sent off in the Premier League if he did it there.” I’m sure it’s a red card.

If Kane had been sent off for putting Bayern ahead after Serge Gnabry cancelled out Bukayo Saka’s opener, he would not have been able to play in the second match next week at the Allianz Arena.