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This is what I was trying to say in the match day thread. It's definitely a penalty but Martial exaggerates the contact a bit too.I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt to the referee there. If he didn’t see the contact but saw Martial’s body shape as he went down it’s not hard to believe he might have felt that he manufactured some contact while diving and if I’m honest I think that’s exactly what he did. The problem for Young is that he gave the referee no choice but to overturn his decision and award the penalty because Martial didn’t need to manufacture any contact at all because Young did all that work for him so it was as clear a penalty as you will get and Martial’s actions have absolutely no bearing because of that.
One of those though where if Young does nothing Martial goes through and could well end up scoring anyway.