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Leicester City brag Steve Cooper was highly captious of referee Andrew Madley aft his side's 2-1 decision by Chelsea.
He thought they should person had a punishment precocious connected astatine 2-0 erstwhile Levi Colwill appeared to bring down Stephy Mavididi - but it was not given.
They were awarded a punishment by the video adjunct referee (VAR) successful wounded clip erstwhile Romeo Lavia caught Bobby de Cordova-Reid.
Madley did not springiness it initially arsenic helium thought the Leicester subordinate was offside - but VAR ruled helium was onside.
"He gave offside for the 2nd 1 and helium was astir fractional a gait on," Cooper told BBC Sport.
"We've had a batch of atrocious luck with this referee this year. It's our 3rd oregon 4th crippled with him and it's not been the champion of times. It continued today.
"The past happening [referees' body] PGMOL needed was that performance. He's got immoderate large decisions massively incorrect and successful wide a mates of advantages helium blew up.
"I don't cognize if helium mislaid attraction oregon composure but it's not what the referees needed successful the archetypal crippled unrecorded connected TV [after the planetary break].
"It's a pity. It's going to beryllium each the talking points. I'm disappointed it's america connected the incorrect extremity of it."
Cooper added later: "Maybe officially we request to talk to whoever we've got to talk to."
Earlier connected Saturday, the Premier League said on-field accuracy of decisions has improved from 82% aft 11 games past play to 89% this campaign.
A Key Match Incident Panel ruled that determination were lone 3 VAR errors successful that time, compared to 16 past season.
It added the mean VAR hold successful matches is down from 64 seconds to 36 seconds.
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