Leeds United haven’t enjoyed a good record with Monday’s referee for their Premier League trip to Tottenham Hotspur.
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The Premier League have confirmed their latest round of referee appointments with Jarred Gillett to take charge of Tottenham Hotspur vs Leeds United on Monday.
Daniel Farke’s side make the journey down to London having virtually secured their Premier League status following Friday’s 3-1 win over Burnley. Goals from Anton Stach, Noah Okafor and Dominic Calvert-Lewin took the Whites into 43 points and they will be mathematically safe if West Ham lose to Arsenal on Sunday.
The same cannot be said for hosts Tottenham, who despite back-to-back wins remain right in the relegation mix. A 2-1 win at Aston Villa last time out lifted them out of the bottom three but they remain just one point above West Ham in 18th, with Leeds due to face both at their respective home grounds.
Ahead of another huge game at the bottom, the Premier League have named Gillett as the man to take charge at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. He will be assisted by Neil Davies and Steve Meredith, with Tom Kirk as fourth official and Craig Pawson on VAR duties.
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Gillett has taken charge of 20 Premier League games so far this season, blowing for 19.85 fouls and brandishing 3.55 yellow cards per game on average. The Australian is among the more lenient top-flight officials in that sense and Leeds will be hoping to enjoy their first victory of the season involving this particular referee on Monday.
Leeds United’s poor record with Jarred Gillett as referee
The Whites have drawn and lost two each of the four Premier League games involving Gillett, suffering early-season defeats against Arsenal and Nottingham Forest before Elland Road stalemates with Manchester United and Brentford. The experienced official also took charge of last month’s FA Cup semi-final defeat to Chelsea.
Gillett received a 4/10 in YEP chief football writer Graham Smyth’s player ratings after what was labelled an ‘infuriatingly inconsistent’ performance. Leeds were penalised and regularly booked for a number of soft fouls on the day, with the man in the middle also powerless to stop Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez’s tactical injury timeout.
Farke opted against making too big a deal of the timeout, which has become a frustratingly common occurrence during Leeds games, but did vent frustration at what he felt was a key error involving Gillett earlier in the season. The Whites boss felt a free-kick awarded against Anton Stach, which Nottingham Forest scored their second goal of a 3-1 win from, was incorrectly awarded.
“This was the first big mistake of the referee, because I think he was the only one in the whole stadium who saw a foul by Anton Stach,” Farke said of the incident back in early November. “It was 100 per cent a foul against him [Stach].
“They put the ball long. From the second ball, the cross comes in and the goal comes five seconds later. We would have definitely preferred to play [by] the rules today, but we are also self critical.”